Faith for mothers in the hard middle.
Mothers Who Know frames motherhood as a spiritual battle fought through faith, agency, repentance, and steady emotional practice. Its episodes move between testimony, group discussion, scripture, and practical tools for mothers supporting loved ones through difficult behaviors or mental health struggles.
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Mothers Who Know is a devotional support show for mothers who are trying to stay spiritually steady while family life feels frightening, messy, or beyond their control. Its world is explicitly Latter-day Saint Christian. Scripture, testimony, prayerful language, and references to Jesus Christ shape nearly every practical idea. The show does not treat motherhood as a tidy self-improvement project. It treats it as a daily contest over attention, identity, agency, and love. Recent episodes focus on self-doubt, negative thought spirals, emotional triggers, joy, peace, and the effort to keep showing up without losing oneself. The tone is warm and urgent. It often begins with pain, circles through doctrine, then lands on a usable practice. Mothers are encouraged to notice fear early, choose words deliberately, use the body in constructive action, and remember why they care. The show returns again and again to the claim that shame and isolation are not neutral feelings. They are framed as spiritual attacks that can be answered with truth, mercy, repentance, and connection. That gives the program its force. A conversation about a tense exchange with a husband can become a lesson in influence and restraint. A reflection on depression or neurological struggle can become a discussion of declarations, posted reminders, and retraining thought patterns. A child or loved one struggling with pornography, anxiety, self-harm, or other painful behavior becomes part of a wider call for mothers to seek support instead of carrying the burden alone. The pacing can be looping and emphatic. It repeats because repetition is part of the method. The show is less interested in polished argument than in helping a mother hear the same faithful truth until it feels available under pressure. Its best fit is a listener who already shares, or is open to, its religious vocabulary. For that audience, Mothers Who Know offers not detached advice, but a room of earnest spiritual reinforcement.
Made for: For mothers seeking Latter-day Saint Christian support while navigating family conflict, fear, mental health struggles, or a child's difficult behavior. It especially suits listeners who want doctrine, testimony, and practical emotional tools in the same place.
What sets it apart: The show blends parent support language with a highly devotional frame, treating thought patterns, shame, and family stress as spiritual battles as well as everyday challenges. Its group-like rhythm makes the advice feel less like expert instruction and more like repeated reinforcement from a faith community.
Mothers Who Know, hosted by Karen Broadhead, Certified Family Life and Wellness Coach, offers free training and support for all mothers. Karen hopes to educate mothers and empower them to find HOPE when their child battles any challenging issue faced today. With values from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Karen teaches mothers to stand strong in the storms they face, sometimes on a daily basis. Mothers Who Know is a safe place to receive support and learn tools to be a more peaceful and powerful mother. https://motherswhoknow.org/
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Karen Broadhead pairs Christian reflection with practical tools for mothers facing difficult thoughts, strained relationships, and serious challenges involving their children.
Karen Broadhead turns moments of maternal overwhelm into practical, faith-shaped reflection. Mothers Who Know repeatedly returns to negative thought spirals, self-doubt, isolation, and the strain of supporting children through serious emotional or behavioral difficulties.
Karen Broadhead treats a thought spiral like a spiritual battle you can actually prepare for.
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A steady devotional episode that ties worth, truth, and John 10:10 to anxiety and support for mothers.
The episode stays close to a devotional lane, centering on God-given worth, the spirit given to women, and trust in Jesus Christ. John 10:10 gives the clearest frame: the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, while Christ offers life more abundantly and the power to hand…
Faith-centered support for parents facing difficult behaviors.
Mothers Who Know centers on helping mothers and fathers support youth in the Sons of Healing and Daughters of Light programs at Life Changing Services, including young people dealing with depression, anxiety, self-harm, pornography, and other difficult behaviors.
A faith-forward guide for parents seeking practical help to interrupt a spiral and choose the next step.
Karen Broadhead's idea of "warrior chemistry" frames the episode as a practical call to act with faith, not just feel better. It returns to three steady anchors: know your why, choose your words, and use your body.
A faith-first support conversation about retraining thought patterns and staying steady through hard days.
This episode offers a faith-centered support conversation in which Karen Broadhead introduces the program and Life Changing Services for parents facing youth depression, anxiety, self-harm, pornography, and other difficult behaviors.
A faith-centered conversation about catching distress early, made practical by a small eggnog dispute at home.
Mothers Who Know treats peace less as a feeling than as a practiced habit: catching shame and conflict while they are still forming, before they turn into "hand to hand combat." The episode builds from the image of noticing trouble from "a sniper's distance" into a Christian…
A faith-centered reflection on releasing control when a loved one's struggle makes every responsibility feel urgent.
Mothers Who Know frames parenting strain around a faith-centered question: what changes when a parent stops trying to manage a loved one's struggle by sheer will?
A faith-based conversation about trust, judgment, and finding safer support when a loved one needs help.
Mothers Who Know spends this episode on the uneasy work of deciding who belongs on a support team when fear and judgment enter the room. Karen Broadhead and the wider conversation keep circling a practical pressure point: parents may want help, yet sharing hard things can feel…
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Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
A podcast introduction for Mothers Who Know, offering support and resources for mothers of children struggling with mental health and behavioral issues.
Mothers Who Know episode #312 is a Mom Power Live session on lesson three, "Notice, Just Notice," which opens with the slide line "Peace is an increased skill, not a change in circumstance." Host Karen hands the meeting to a guest she calls "a walking miracle," a mother of three who co-manages the Beaver Creek Inn in Dubois, Idaho.
A podcast episode encouraging mothers to overcome self-doubt and find confidence and strength through faith, with a focus on supporting children struggling with difficult behaviors.
Karen Broadhead, director of the Mothers Who Know podcast, leads a Mom Power Live group discussion on lesson seven, "You Are God's Secret Weapon," about mothers supporting their families' spiritual work.
This episode introduces the Mothers Who Know podcast and its mission to support mothers of struggling youth, focusing on breaking negative thought spirals and choosing love when triggered.
A podcast episode introducing the Mothers Who Know community and its mission to support mothers in raising children with strength, love, and clarity through faith and therapeutic resources.
A podcast introduction for mothers supporting children with behavioral issues, emphasizing faith, resilience, and community support.
Karen Broadhead and the moms on Mothers Who Know discuss how a pattern can feel like it “serves me so well” while still being “not really serving me.” The conversation connects repentance, “neural pathways,” and the courage to ask Heavenly Father for “the first step” instead of trying to change everything at once.
Karen Broadhead of Mothers Who Know ties "joyful repentance" to noticing a negative "spin" and naming feelings like anger, shame, or fear.
Karen Broadhead, Director of Mothers Who Know and Parent Support Specialist at Life Changing Services, teaches Lesson 5, 'Stay by the Tree and Own Your Field,' to a group of mothers supporting children in the Sons of Healing and Daughters of Light recovery programs.
Host Karen Broadhead, Director of Mothers Who Know and Parent Support Specialist at Life Changing Services, opens a recorded Mom Power support-group session for mothers of children struggling with pornography, depression, anxiety, or self-harm.
Karen Broadhead introduces the Mothers Who Know podcast, offering support and resources for mothers of youth struggling with mental health and behavioral issues.
Karen Broadhead introduces the Mothers Who Know podcast, a supportive community for mothers of struggling youth, and invites listeners to join their online support group.
A podcast episode discussing how parents can overcome shame and help their children navigate issues of sexuality, featuring an interview with Greg Dunford.
A podcast introduction for mothers seeking strength and peace through faith, offering support for parenting struggling youth.