The Behavior Project

Finding Your Voice: Speaking Life into Our Children

In this heartfelt episode of “Finding Your Voice,” we tackle the challenges parents face when they feel worn out and struggle to communicate with their children. Join us as we explore the emotional exhaustion that often accompanies parenting and the importance of acknowledging these feelings.
We’ll discuss the power of listening and how creating a safe space can open the door to deeper conversations with our kids. Through practical strategies and scripture references, we’ll help you find the right words to express love and support, even when you feel lost.
Additionally, we’ll highlight the value of connecting with other parents for encouragement and share resources to strengthen your parenting journey. With reminders of grace and strength from scripture, this episode is designed to uplift and empower you as you work to reconnect with your children.
Tune in for practical tips, relatable stories, and the encouragement you need to navigate the complexities of parenting with confidence and compassion.
#thebxproject #speakingwhenyouhavenowords #cleveland #parentstrategies

Summer Sparks: Igniting Connections with Your Teen

Summer is here. Though it’s a perfect time to relax from such a busy winter, it’s a perfect time to build into intentionality with a fresh start.
In this podcast, I look at various activities you can do on a daily basis to build into your children. Remember, it’s not just the big moments that create the memories, but it’s also the little moments that create the biggest impact.
Here’s a concise version:
1. **Quality Time**
*Scripture:* "Let your conversation be always full of grace..." - Colossians 4:6
*Reason:* Summer offers relaxed opportunities for meaningful discussions with your teen.
2. **Building Relationships**
*Scripture:* "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger..." - Ephesians 6:4
*Reason:* Strengthen bonds through quality time and nurturing guidance.
3. **Encouraging Growth**
*Scripture:* "Train up a child in the way he should go..." - Proverbs 22:6
*Reason:* Support your teen’s exploration of new hobbies and skills.
4. **Creating Memories**
*Scripture:* "This is the day that the Lord has made..." - Psalm 118:24
*Reason:* Engage in joyful activities to foster gratitude for shared moments.
5. **Fostering Spiritual Growth**
*Scripture:* "Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you." - James 4:8
*Reason:* Use summer for spiritual growth through family activities and devotionals.
These tips are just some of what you can do to make the summer count, enjoy each moment, for it is fleeting.

Resilient Love: Cultivating Commitment in a Culture of Convenience

Resilient Love: Cultivating Commitment in a Culture of Convenience.” This podcast focuses on the importance of steadfastness in marriage amidst a world that often promotes quick fixes and easy exits.
Keep these passages near,  the purposes He intended to build your faith, keep these close to build your faith:
1. Romans 12:12 (NIV): “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” • This verse underscores the importance of hope and patience, encouraging couples to remain committed during tough times.
2. Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV): “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” • This can inspire couples to actively support one another and stay connected, reinforcing the idea that community and encouragement are vital in marriage.
3. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV): “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them.” • This scripture can serve as a reminder of the strength found in partnership, emphasizing the importance of lifting each other up during challenging periods.
4. Philippians 4:13 (NIV): “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” • This verse can encourage you to rely on your faith to strengthen their relationship, reminding them that with divine support, they can overcome any obstacle. By focusing on resilience and commitment, this podcast can provide couples with practical strategies, scriptural insights, and inspiring stories that motivate them to nurture their relationships and choose perseverance over giving up, fostering a sense of hope and purpose in their love lives.

Prayers that Unite: Strengthening Your Marriage Through Faith

In this episode of we explore the impact of praying with conviction and authority over your marriage and family. Drawing from Matthew 18:19-20, we discuss how united prayer can transform relationships.
Join us as we highlight the importance of bold prayer and our role as prayer warriors. We’ll share tips on how to cover your marriage in prayer and create a spiritual foundation for your family. Discover how intentional prayer can foster unity and invite God’s presence into your home.
Tune in to learn how to harness the power of prayer for a thriving, faith-filled family!

Nurturing Us: The Parent’s Guide to Marriage: Episode 1

“Nurturing Us” is a podcast series designed specifically for parents who want to strengthen their marriage while navigating the challenges of parenthood. Each episode will offer practical advice, heartfelt stories, and expert insights on how to prioritize and nurture the marital relationship amidst the busy demands of family life.
In this podcast, I provide an exercise to allow you to outline your perspectives, identify a Bible verses where God speaks into and about marriages and His expectation of a husband and wife. This podcast episode is a practical exercise for you to first outline and change your perspectives, but also to see to how God perceives marriage as you move forward. Marriage was not created to be a roommate situation or an institution where you gradually fail after moving from love to hatred. The goal is that after you identify and revisit your thought process of marriage, you walk away encouraged as you replace this with God’s word.

Nurturing Us: The Parent’s Guide to Marriage: Episode 1

Nurturing Us” is a podcast series designed specifically for parents who want to strengthen their marriage while navigating the challenges of parenthood. Each episode will offer practical advice, heartfelt stories, and expert insights on how to prioritize and nurture the marital relationship amidst the busy demands of family life.
In this podcast, I provide an exercise to allow you to outline your perspectives, identify a Bible verses where God speaks into and about marriages and His expectation of a husband and wife. This podcast episode is a practical exercise for you to first outline and change your perspectives, but also to see to how God perceives marriage as you move forward. Marriage was not created to be a roommate situation or an institution where you gradually fail after moving from love to hatred. The goal is that after you identify and revisit your thought process of marriage, you walk away encouraged as you replace this with God’s word.

Navigating Tough Times as a Parent: Finding Hope in Scripture Episode 3

In this episode, we explore the challenges parents face due to outside circumstances and how to find hope and strength through God’s Word. We’ll discuss practical strategies for resilience and share uplifting scriptures that inspire and guide us through tough times.
Key scriptures that provide hope and comfort:
Philippians 4:6-7: “Do not be anxious about anything…”
Isaiah 41:10: “So do not fear, for I am with you…”
Resources:
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Navigating the Tough Times: Tools for Resilience: Episode 2

In this episode, we dive deeper into the specific tools and strategies that parents can use to navigate through the toughest moments of their parenting journey. We’ll explore practical approaches to building resilience in both parents and children, emphasizing the importance of perspective, support, and self-reflection.
Practical Tools for Parents:
• Prayer: Sitting in God’s presence, listening and learning from His Word to learn the direction He has for you and your situation. We often rush what we seek answer to and miss what He seeks to teach us. Allow this to be a place you frequent.
• Journaling for Reflection: Encourage parents to keep journals to reflect on their experiences and emotions, helping them process challenges.
This episode is meant to reinforce the idea that while parenting is filled with challenges, each struggle is an opportunity for growth and connection. Embrace your journey and utilize the tools discussed to foster resilience in themselves and their children.
This episode is meant to provide you with continued strategies to not just equipped, but to encourage you as you walk through these seasons as a parent. Considerate joy when you walk through trials that require resiliency, in these may you not waiver or become defeated but rise up and hope, knowing that in these their opportunity to grow in your faith And in your testimony.

The Parenting Journey: Embracing the Struggles Episode 1

The Beautiful Mess of Parenthood:
This new series looks at the various struggles that parents face, and works, not just to provide simple strategies to acknowledge and overcome, but also to welcome the trials that we walk through knowing that God uses them to refine our character. Parenting is not meant to be synonymous with fear or a lack of your identity rather it’s meant to be an extension of your identity, The goal of this podcast episode is to equipped an empower, to break free From the identity of struggle and doubt we have had in regards to parenting.
#parentingstereotypes #parentingflaws #thebxproject

Spouse Shift-Rediscovering Each Other

This episode will delve into the changes that occur in the relationship between partners as they navigate parenting, particularly during the preteen and teenage years. It will explore how the demands of parenting can shift the focus away from the couple dynamic, and how to actively work on rediscovering each other amidst these changes.