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Episode Synopsis
Today on Thriving Beyond Belief, we have Crystal Paine! Crystal Paine had it all together—a happy marriage, three healthy children, national bestselling books, a wildly successful business, and a mortgage-free home—until suddenly, she didn't. Her world turned upside down the day she learned her child was not only being expelled for bullying others, but was also depressed and suicidal. Sitting in an emergency room with her husband and child, her world crumbling around her, Crystal hit her all-time parenting low—but she also heard the voice of God say "I love you." "God allowed me to hit rock bottom so that He could help me relearn how to parent," writes Paine. "I realized that most of my parenting had been about me. I was parenting for my own approval and reputation, instead of for my relationship with my kids and for their well-being. I cared more about what others thought than I did about my kids' hearts. I worried more about producing kids who made good decisions than about kids who knew they were wholeheartedly loved." Throughout the book, Paine shares her own parenting stories—the good, the bad, and the ugly—what she's learned, and how she's shifted into a love-centered model of raising her children. And because you can't give what you don't have, she first had to let God reparent her, relearning to parent from the inside out.
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