Our relationship to ‘enough’ can show up in all the areas of our life. Whether we struggle with discomfort, self-worth, setting limits, or offering ourselves more – we all can consider how the concept of ‘enough’ and ‘sufficient’ can play out in our minds, hearts and lives.

Key topics in this episode, and related links for more information

Enough exercise for this season
- TRX videos in my workout playlist of videos I used and loved
Setting boundaries with our phone
- Intentional phone habits (episode and worksheets)
Having a constant need for comfort
- Type 9, How the enneagram changed my life
Times of parenting that are so difficult and what ‘enough’ looks like in those seasons
- Difficult parenting
Asking what is ‘enough’ when decluttering
- Can A Minimalist Have a Full Kitchen?
- Til We Have Just Enough Stuff
Struggling with moderation and knowing what is too much and what is too little
Hurdles for women really knowing what is enough, for themselves.
Relying on external sources to compensate our ‘not-enoughness’
- 186. Doing life with less (summer challenge)
- 192. Who are you when I’m not looking (internal vs external validation)
Having a mindset of ‘not enough’
- 40. Does the ‘not-enough’ mindset show up in your momlife? (Scarcity/Abundance)
- You Can Simplify Your Life Series
Looking at this through a faith lens
- the BEMA episode on Genesis, Creation, Enough

Questions mentioned in this episode that you can use for reflection and journalling:

What relationship do I have with the terms ‘enough’ and ‘sufficient’?
How skilled to I feel at gauging ‘enough’ for myself?
Where does scarcity show up for me?
Where do I struggle to feel like I am doing enough/am enough/have enouhg?
How has being online made me feel like there is something about me or my life that isn’t enough?
What does the world around me, seasons and nature, teach me about ‘enough’?
Where do I feel like I have too much in my life?
Where do I feel like I have too little in my life?
Have there been times in my life when I felt a sense of ‘enough’?
How do I act, in the different areas of my life, when I feel like there is not ‘enough’?

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Hey friends, it’s Shawna, your nerdy girlfriend and counselor. Welcome to the simple on purpose podcast. So we’re coming into April. And this is a weird season. It’s like an in between season for me, because summer is not here, the

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kids are still in school. But hockey is over which hockey took up for weeknights, and most weekends. So there’s a definite, like, calm period, I would say, the boys are playing more Xbox. But they also move their backboard out of the basement, which is really nice. So they’re out in the yard, shooting pucks, and I kind of get the basement back again, I can put the TRX up and I can do a TRX workout, which I really enjoy the TRX it’s something that you hang from the ceiling or a door and has these two straps that you can like adjust with handholds, and it’s a weight trainer, there’s some really great videos online that I like to do. And I always feel it after even if I’m doing like a really quick workout, like, even 20 minutes, it’s all my workouts are 20 minutes. It’s something that I really am enjoying, too, I think it’s really important to find a way to move that you enjoy. And really one of my goals is strength training. So I’m really happy to reclaim that my basement from hockey and many sticks. And I think, I don’t know, maybe this kind of nicely goes with the topic of the month, which is the theme of balance and moderation. It’s something I’m going to be actively talking about in the Patreon as well as we go through the month. So I want to talk more about the concept of enough. And with this topic, I have a lot of thoughts. It’s like walking through different rooms in one house. So I want to share some different ideas. And I’m going to approach it to be almost kind of meditative, like reading a bunch of daily bread pages, did you grow up with those little daily bread books or daily bread? My mom always had them in the bathroom. She had a lot of bugs in the bathroom, actually, which I find myself doing like my mother now. But a book in the bathroom, it kind of just keeps me from bringing the phone in, which I think is a good boundary. Anyways, the daily bread, they’re like these little books in each page, there’s one page for a day, and has little story, a little thought and then some scripture. So as I drafted up these notes for this episode, I kind of laughed at myself, because I thought it’s not a Reader’s Digest version. And it’s not like 10 points on something. It’s kind of a daily bread version of thoughts. So let’s just start with the first thought. And the first thought is me kind of first thinking about the concept of it enough, the first time I actually really thought about it as an adult. And there was that time in my life where I had my first two kids remember, they were 16 months apart. And it was really overwhelming probably the most overwhelming time of my life because I had a toddler and a baby. But this baby only wanted to sleep on me and was quite mad when she wasn’t sleeping on me. I felt really up against my personal limitations, one of them being a need for constant comfort. And at that time I had written on my chalkboard in my hallway, My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in your weakness. And man did I want power I wanted the power of God coming into my life and rescuing me. And I clung to this verse, My grace is sufficient. In some translations, it says My grace is enough. And that’s the part that stuck with me this concept that enough? Is a version of satisfied or sufficient. And I don’t think I let enough really be the same as satisfied because enough felt lacking somehow. There’s no extra buffer, there’s no security. But enough is sufficient. Isn’t it a sufficient amount? It’s what’s required? No more, no less. When I was decluttering, I would think about the word enough quite often. What’s enough forks for one house? What are enough pairs of tweezers? What are enough pairs of jeans? What’s enough bars of soap in the drawer? What’s enough cleaning products? An...

Key topics in this episode, and related links for more information

Enough exercise for this season

Setting boundaries with our phone

Having a constant need for comfort

Times of parenting that are so difficult and what ‘enough’ looks like in those seasons

Asking what is ‘enough’ when decluttering

Struggling with moderation and knowing what is too much and what is too little

Hurdles for women really knowing what is enough, for themselves.

Relying on external sources to compensate our ‘not-enoughness’

Having a mindset of ‘not enough’

Looking at this through a faith lens

Questions mentioned in this episode that you can use for reflection and journalling:

Looking for more?

Full transcript (unedited)

205. Finding balance through ‘ENOUGH’: motherhood, minimalism, self-worth, and personal growth