{"id":47984,"date":"2022-05-20T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47984"},"modified":"2022-05-20T03:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:05:18","slug":"dying-to-self-or-self-care-in-motherhood-how-faithfulness-to-god-clarifies-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47984","title":{"rendered":"Dying to Self or Self-Care in Motherhood: How Faithfulness to God Clarifies the Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever snuck guiltily out of the house, leaving crying kids with a bewildered babysitter? Have you ever heard someone gently chide you, &ldquo;You need to take better care of yourself,&rdquo; while also having someone else remind you that &ldquo;Motherhood is dying to self&rdquo;? In American evangelical culture today, the concepts of self-care and dying to self seem to be perpetually at odds. It&rsquo;s enough to leave&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2022\/05\/20\/dying-to-self-or-self-care-in-motherhood-how-faithfulness-to-god-clarifies-the-conversation\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian moms face an interesting dilemma\u2014are they supposed to be sacrificing their bodies and dying to self? Or should they be taking more time for self-care? How do we reconcile these two seemingly dispirit ideas, and what is the biblical vision for holistic care of our bodies and souls? Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":47986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[17,4876,835,1834,3964,38,3321],"class_list":["post-47984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-christian-living","tag-dying-to-self","tag-faithfulness","tag-motherhood","tag-mothers","tag-parenting","tag-self-care","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-13.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47987,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47984\/revisions\/47987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}