The Intentional Family

Do you ever feel like your plans are worthless because they’re always changing? In this episode, Rachel makes the case that ongoing planning gets us into the mindset of adapting as life inevitably throws curveballs, whereas plans that we make one time can get us stuck, frustrated, and unable to adapt well.
Mike’s Personal Retreat Planner
How to Design Your Ideal Week
Victor Frankl had a LifeTheme. Do You?
LifeTheme Cohort

Rachel shares real stories of people who have overcome challenges like personal defeat, regret, cancer, and infertility to help inspire you to keep on keeping on.
Storyworth

Rachel makes the case that a resilient family isn't built in the emergency; it's built in the years of small, mundane delegation before it, using her own case of being bedridden as proof.
Chore System PDF

Rachel explores why practice —not perfection —is the healthier way to live, making room for mistakes, grace, and growth instead of guilt.
Intentional Family #168: What My Broken Leg Taught Me
Intentional Family #169: When Life Hands You Lemons

In this episode, Rachel unpacks what her broken leg exposed beneath the busyness — a need for control and the slow discovery that rest doesn't have to be earned.
Intentional Family #168: When Life Hands You Lemons
Classical Conversations
Sit, Walk, Stand by Watchman Nee