Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito

What if hospitality isn't about having a perfectly clean home, elaborate meals, or an always-ready guest room?

What if hospitality is simply creating a home where people feel welcomed, loved, and cared for?

In episode 197 of the Restoration Home Podcast, Jennifer Pepito talks with Mystie Winckler about creating a hospitable home while homeschooling, managing the daily rhythms of family life, and cultivating an environment where relationships can flourish.

Mystie shares wisdom from her new book on hospitality, encouraging women to see their homes as places of welcome and ministry. Together, Jennifer and Mystie discuss how simple rhythms, household systems, and intentional habits can create more peace and margin for loving our families and serving others.

After nearly 30 years of homeschooling, Jennifer has seen that the most meaningful parts of education often happen around the table, in the kitchen, while caring for others, and through the everyday work of home life.

This conversation connects beautifully with the themes from Jennifer's book, Habits for a Sacred Home, where she explores how small, faithful practices can transform our homes into places of peace, connection, and spiritual formation and from Mystie's new book, Home is for Hospitality.

In this episode, you'll hear:

✨ Why hospitality is more about welcome than perfection
✨ How to create a home culture where people feel they belong
✨ Simple rhythms that help homeschool families manage the demands of daily life
✨ Why household work is an important part of our children's education
✨ How to make space for community even during busy homeschool seasons
✨ The connection between homemaking, discipleship, and hospitality
✨ Practical ways to cultivate a home that reflects God's love

Our homes are not just places where we complete lessons or manage responsibilities. They are places where we form people, build relationships, practice generosity, and create memories that last for generations.

Whether you are welcoming neighbors around your table, teaching your children to serve, or simply trying to create a peaceful atmosphere for your family, this conversation will encourage you to embrace the sacred work of home.

Resources Mentioned:
📖 Habits for a Sacred Home by Jennifer Pepito
Discover simple rhythms and practices that help families cultivate a home filled with peace, connection, and purpose.

📖 Home is for Hospitality by Mystie Winckler
A beautiful encouragement to embrace hospitality as a way of life and create homes that welcome others with grace and love.

🌿 Restoration Home Community
Join a community of women seeking to cultivate peaceful homes, intentional rhythms, and a deeper connection with God.

Connect with Jennifer:
The Peaceful Press
Restoration Home Community

Connect with Mystie:
Visit Mystie Winckler online for resources on homeschooling, homemaking, and creating a well-ordered home. https://www.simplyconvivial.com/

Reflection Question:
What is one small habit you could cultivate this week to make your home feel more welcoming and peaceful?

Motherhood has a way of revealing our deepest fears.

Whether you’re afraid of failing your children, making irreversible mistakes, or wondering if you’re doing enough, fear can quietly steal the joy God intended for your family. Add the weight of mom guilt, and our nervous system begins to suffer.

In episode 196 of the Restoration Home Podcast, I’m joined by author and speaker Sarah Walton to talk about overcoming fear, embracing God’s grace, and learning how to forgive yourself for mistakes and regulate your nervous system in the midst of motherhood crisis.

Together we discuss:

Why fear so often shapes our parenting decisions

How the gospel frees us from perfectionism

Learning to replace anxiety with trust in God

What to do when you can’t stop replaying your parenting mistakes

The importance of receiving God’s forgiveness—and extending it to yourself

Practical ways to cultivate peace and regulation in your home instead of fear

If you’ve ever lain awake wondering whether you’ve damaged your children or wished you could have a “do-over” as a mom, this episode is for you. God’s grace is bigger than your failures, and He is faithfully at work in both your heart and your children’s lives.

Jesus Will Meet You There by Sarah Walton

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If today’s conversation encouraged you, I’d love to invite you to join the Restoration Home Community—a place where Christian women gather to cultivate peaceful homes, strong family relationships, and joyful faith through biblical encouragement, practical habits, and authentic community.

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Welcome to episode 196 of the Restoration Home Community!! 

In this episode, we're bringing you Jennifer's Inspired Homeschool Workshop, so if you missed it originally or want to listen to it on the go give it a listen. 

Jennifer talks about how history was homeschooled to give you the confidence to continue homeschooling; she offers stories of our heroes who were homeschooled, like Laura Ingalls Wilder through much of her life, and lists ways we can take homeschooling to the next level by making it about raising a whole child. 

If you are looking for a community to start building your inspired homeschool with, the Restoration Home is open for the next 36 hours. 

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

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In this episode:

We want you to get excited for homeschooling!

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Welcome to episode 194 with Jennifer Pepito, Cindy West and Alicia Hutchinson. Cindy West is the founder of Our Journey Westward a homeschool science and nature study and a long time homeschool mama. Alicia Hutchinson is the creator of Learning Well and a homeschool mama of many years. 

This is such a fantastic episode whether you are starting to homeschool or in the thick of it. 

Jennifer, Alicia, and Cindy talk about self-care, a Charlotte Mason education, getting outside, what their ideal homeschool day looked like, and so much more. 

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers. 

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode: 

Finding micro-moments of self-care

The key elements of a great homeschool day 

Foundational principles for your children

Stewarding your marriage in every season 

What we loved about homeschooling

You can learn more about Alicia at her Learning Well

You can learn more about Cindy at Our Journey Westward

If you're looking for inspiration for your homeschooling, check out Jennifer's new book The Inspired Homeschool. Pre-order now for exclusive bonuses

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

Jennifer's Instagram

You can learn more about Alicia and Cindy here: 

Alicia's Instagram and Cindy's Instagram 

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Welcome to episode 193 with Jennifer Pepito and Abbey Wedgeworth.

Abbey is a teacher, speaker, and author and this episode centred around her newest book Help! I'm Ruining My Kids. 

We all so badly want to find the formula that will guarantee us Godly, happy, whole children, even if that formula is not having a formula or a rigid religious adherence to scripture absent God. 

This is a conversation about turning to God, the difference between commiseration and counsel, how mom's at different stages can bless each-other, and so much more. 

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers. 

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode: 

Find places where you can't pretend to be perfect 

Your children don't need you to be perfect, they need you to be stable 

Learning to take correction from the people who love us

Your childhood woundedness is connected to your ability to show up

Learning to see the refuge we have in God

You can learn more about Abbey at her website and do check out her newest book! 

If you're looking for inspiration for your homeschooling, check out Jennifer's new book The Inspired Homeschool. Pre-order now for exclusive bonuses

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

Jennifer's Instagram

You can learn more about Abbey here: 

Abbey's Instagram

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