Episode 121 :: Shannon K. Evans :: Stories of Rewilding Motherhood

Today I get to share with you my conversation with Shannon K. Evans. Shannon is an author and a speaker who shares about spirituality, social justice and encouraging women as she navigates mothering 5 kiddos. During our conversation, Shannon shares her story of growing up with a model of Christian servitude, and living lives full of mercy, and love, but as she grew up that became misconstrued into a confusing narrative about her significance in her relationship with God and others being only about her what she gave or how she served.

Shannon and her husband lived as overseas missionaries for a while and this issue really came to a head there as they began to realize this in fact may not be what they were called to after all. She shares her personal journey of wrestling with her shadow side, the lack of vulnerability as a missionary, then coming home and becoming an adoptive Mom, and ultimately coming to terms with what God was exposing in her own heart. She asked herself and continues to ask those who have ears to hear: What is just the appearance of living a holy life, and what is a life of being conformed into the image of Christ?

As their family grew, she began to wrestle further with the belief of her worth as woman and what made her a good mom was minimizing her needs, and only being as great as her sacrifice. Service, and motherhood is beautiful, but if you are bitter, and angry and miserable, how does that actually help anyone, and what is that modeling to your children? These are questions Shannon asked herself and then ultimately poured out into her writing. Shannon’s latest book Rewilding Motherhood is a motherhood book for those who struggle to find themselves in other motherhood books. While motherhood and parenthood books can be great tools for tackling issues, equipping for situations and more, Shannon wanted to focus more on the woman under all the motherhood, and discovering what it might look like to rewild it. What does it mean to rewild? She’ll share that with us and more.

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