Is your home a tool or a trophy? Mystie Winckler shares a personal, powerful episode reframing what it really means to be a “good homemaker.” This isn’t about shiny sinks or minimalist aesthetics. It’s about dominion, discipleship, and the truth that homemaking shapes the people in your home—bodies and souls alike.

With honesty and conviction, Mystie dismantles the cultural lies that turn homemaking into a style statement and calls us to embrace the daily, faithful work of real organization: not for the sake of order, but for the sake of mission.

🏡 Why you don’t have to be “a good housekeeper” to be a good homemaker
📦 What it means to be organized when life is messy
🪴 How homemaking is like gardening, not factory work
📇 And why your Daily Card is a practical way to stay focused on what matters

This episode ties directly into Mystie’s workshop on Daily Cards and includes links below to get started. Whether you feel like you're failing at housekeeping or just need a reminder that your work matters—this one’s for you.

🗂️ Watch the Daily Card Workshop: https://youtu.be/zYDK6i9MXiM
🛠️ Get your own Daily Card PDF: simplyconvivial.com/3x3
🎧 Available on the Simply Convivial Library app: library.simplyconvivial.com

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Mystie Winckler encourages moms to organize their attitudes and get traction at home so we are no longer overwhelmed or frustrated with homemaking. We are a community of Christian women striving to be competent, cheerful homemakers so we are fruitful, faithful, and hospitable. Subscribe for regular encouragement!

📖 Get my latest book - Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
https://www.simplifiedorganization.com

🏆 Enroll in Convivial Circle and get practical homemaking mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:
https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm

Summer is a season of sunshine, energy—and opportunity. Here's how to use the natural rhythm of summer to build flexible routines, cultivate cheerful productivity, and grow in self-control. Drawing from her own homemaking experience and the principles inside her Sweep and Smile course, Mystie challenges the factory-model ideal of consistency and perfection and replaces it with a more faithful—and realistic—approach: iterative progress anchored in attitude.

Whether your summer looks radically different or stays mostly the same, now is the time to make hay while the sun shines—not by overhauling everything, but by learning from your experience and taking the next faithful step.

🔁 Learn why starting from scratch is a trap
🧠 Why “sustainable” doesn’t mean “same”
⚔️ How to think like a general, not a machine
💜 And how building self-control is the first move toward peace

👉 This episode ties into Mystie’s Sweep and Smile course, where you build custom homemaking routines by practicing them—not perfecting them.

🧹 Get Sweep and Smile: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/sweep/
🪄 Join the Community: https://convivialcircle.com
🎧 Listen on the go: Available inside the Simply Convivial Library app - https://library.simplyconvivial.com

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Let’s learn to love what must be done.
Mystie Winckler encourages moms to organize their attitudes and get traction at home so we are no longer overwhelmed or frustrated with homemaking. We are a community of Christian women striving to be competent, cheerful homemakers so we are fruitful, faithful, and hospitable. Subscribe for regular encouragement!

📖 Get my latest book - Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
https://www.simplifiedorganization.com

🏆 Enroll in Convivial Circle and get practical homemaking mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:
https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm

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As a Christian homemaker, you already know your work matters—but when your thoughts spiral into frustration, martyrdom, or apathy, it's easy to forget. Get the full replay of this workshop at https://library.simplyconvivial.com

If you're constantly overwhelmed by the undone tasks, the unending noise, the mental ping-pong of motherhood, this is for you. If you believe everything you think without evaluating it, you're letting lies shape your life. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Inside:
– What “truth-tethered thinking” really means (and why it’s not just a cute phrase)
– The power of alignment cards to reset your perspective
– Why the home is an economic powerhouse—and your leadership matters
– How to stop practicing distraction and start practicing attention
– The real reason homemakers must learn to pause and think on purpose

You don’t need a more efficient routine. You need to renew your mind.

Get the full replay of this workshop at https://library.simplyconvivial.com

💜 Want support applying this? Join us in Convivial Circle, the community for Christian moms pursuing cheerful productivity: https://convivialcircle.com

Mystie Winckler encourages moms to organize their attitudes and get traction at home so we are no longer overwhelmed or frustrated with homemaking. We are a community of Christian women striving to be competent, cheerful homemakers so we are fruitful, faithful, and hospitable. Subscribe for regular encouragement!

📖 Get my latest book - Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
https://www.simplifiedorganization.com

🏆 Enroll in Convivial Circle and get practical homemaking mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:
https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm

Brain dump guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/braindump | When life shifted, Lynsie's homemaking systems crumbled—and so did her attitude. She shares what helped her reframe the work and embrace her home again with cheerful responsibility. If you've ever struggled with resentment over daily tasks, you need this reminder of what faithful homemaking really looks like.

What do you do when your homemaking routines no longer work—and your attitude starts to spiral? In this candid conversation, Mystie Winckler interviews Convivial Circle member Lindsay about how her mindset changed when she stopped homeschooling and had to rediscover her role at home.

Lindsay shares her honest struggle with resentment and discouragement as her housework increased and her old systems failed. She explains how Baby Step Bingo and the Learn to Love What Must Be Done course helped her renew her mind, shift her goals, and find joy in repetitive work by embracing her homemaking vocation.

If you're a Christian homemaker feeling stuck, weary, or frustrated by the never-ending nature of housework, this conversation will encourage you to press on with grace, gratitude, and a renewed perspective.

🔗 Learn more about Convivial Circle: https://simplyconvivial.com/circle

Mystie Winckler encourages moms to organize their attitudes and get traction at home so we are no longer overwhelmed or frustrated with homemaking. We are a community of Christian women striving to be competent, cheerful homemakers so we are fruitful, faithful, and hospitable. Subscribe for regular encouragement!

📖 Get my latest book - Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
https://www.simplifiedorganization.com

🏆 Enroll in Convivial Circle and get practical homemaking mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:
https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm

Does rest feel impossible in your busy life? Eryn Lynum joins me again for part two of our conversation about biblical rest—and how nature models it beautifully.

In this episode of the Simply Convivial Podcast, we explore what God teaches us through perennials, adrenal failure, and the Israelites in the wilderness. Eryn shares how her chronic illness as a teen forced her to build rest into her life—and how Sabbath rhythms have borne fruit in her family, faith, and business ever since.

You’ll learn:
💜 What the Bible really says about rest
💜 Why abiding and resting go hand-in-hand
💜 How creation models faithful rhythms of work and dormancy
💜 Simple ways to create daily and seasonal rest rhythms at home

FREE: The Family Sabbath Guide: https://erynlynum.com/familysabbath
📖 Grab Erin’s books at ErynLynum.com
🎁 Get my free Attitude Adjustment Guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/attitude

Mystie Winckler encourages moms to organize their attitudes and get traction at home so we are no longer overwhelmed or frustrated with homemaking. We are a community of Christian women striving to be competent, cheerful homemakers so we are fruitful, faithful, and hospitable. Subscribe for regular encouragement!

📖 Get my latest book - Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
https://www.simplifiedorganization.com

🏆 Enroll in Convivial Circle and get practical homemaking mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:
https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm

Rest is not a reward for getting everything done—it's a rhythm God designed us to live by.

In this episode of the Simply Convivial Podcast, I talk with author and naturalist Eryn Lynum, whose new book The Nature of Rest invites us to rethink what real, God-honoring rest looks like. Eryn shares a surprising lesson from hummingbirds—yes, hummingbirds!—and how their built-in rhythms of torpor illustrate God's wisdom for our own lives as busy moms.

We talk about:
💜 How to tell the difference between real rest and idleness
💜 Practical Sabbath rhythms for your week
💜 Simple daily pauses that restore the soul
💜 And why starting from rest (like Adam!) changes everything

FREE: The Family Sabbath Guide: https://erynlynum.com/familysabbath
📖 Grab Erin’s books at ErynLynum.com
🎁 Get my free Attitude Adjustment Guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/attitude

Mystie Winckler encourages moms to organize their attitudes and get traction at home so we are no longer overwhelmed or frustrated with homemaking. We are a community of Christian women striving to be competent, cheerful homemakers so we are fruitful, faithful, and hospitable. Subscribe for regular encouragement!

📖 Get my latest book - Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
https://www.simplifiedorganization.com

🏆 Enroll in Convivial Circle and get practical homemaking mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:
https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm

NEW - Simply Convivial Library - simplyconvivial.com/library

FREE Brain Dump Guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/braindump | When the pressure is high—kids are melting down, dinner’s half-cooked, and bedtime looms—it’s easy to feel like your brain is short-circuiting.

In this episode of the Simplified Organization podcast, I talk with Lainey Lee, a ranching mom of four and Convivial Circle member, about how brain dumping helped her move past perfectionism and emotional overload—and discover what really matters in her homemaking and family life.

We talk about:

Why brain dumping isn’t a waste of time

How writing things down helps you untangle your thoughts

Letting go of the idea that it has to “look right”

Shifting from daily checkboxes to lifestyle transformation

What to do with your scraps of paper full of notes

If you’ve ever resisted brain dumping or felt like it’s just busywork, this conversation will shift your mindset and give you permission to start messy.

📥 Grab the FREE Brain Dump Guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/braindump

🎙️ This podcast is hosted by Mystie Winckler, author of Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done and founder of Convivial Circle, where Christian homemakers get mindset coaching, accountability, and practical tools for cheerful productivity.

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📖 Get my latest book - Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
https://www.simplifiedorganization.com

🏆 Enroll in Convivial Circle and get practical homemaking mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:
https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm

NEW - Simply Convivial Library - simplyconvivial.com/library

Free Brain Dump Guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/braindump | Perfectionism promises peace—but only delivers paralysis. So what happens when we let go of perfection and trust God with the story He’s writing?

In this episode of the Simplified Organization Podcast, I talk with Annie Rajala, a faithful mom of seven (four at home and three in glory), about how God has used hard seasons—grief, sickness, NICU stays, moving, and more—to shape her heart and home. We discuss how letting go of perfection, taking just five minutes, and trusting the Lord’s timing can create momentum, peace, and gratitude in homemaking.

Annie’s journey is a beautiful reminder: the little things—the five minutes, the small goals, the messy journals—are often where God grows our joy the most.

💜 Want help taking five minutes to start?
Download my free Brain Dump Guide here: https://simplyconvivial.com/braindump

Mystie Winckler encourages moms to organize their attitudes and get traction at home so we are no longer overwhelmed or frustrated with homemaking. We are a community of Christian women striving to be competent, cheerful homemakers so we are fruitful, faithful, and hospitable. Subscribe for regular encouragement!

📖 Get my latest book - Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
https://www.simplifiedorganization.com

🏆 Enroll in Convivial Circle and get practical homemaking mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:
https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm