Dakota Smith Holistic Health

Dakota Smith Holistic Health Home birthing Mama🩷 | Nurse 🩺
✝️ Jesus is King ✝️
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Motherhood is more than what we teach our children.It’s what we model for them.I don’t need to be a perfect mother. I ne...
09/10/2026

Motherhood is more than what we teach our children.
It’s what we model for them.

I don’t need to be a perfect mother. I need to be a mother who is faithfully following Christ - and inviting my children to follow Him with me. 🤎

What are you showing your children through the way you live?

08/17/2026

Somewhere along the way, I think we started confusing Christlike with passive.

Yes, we are called to love.
To forgive. To be gentle. To pursue peace. 🤍

But following Jesus does not mean turning a blind eye to evil.

Jesus loved deeply - and He still flipped tables.

Ecclesiastes reminds us that there is a season for everything: a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

And becoming a mother has made me understand that differently.

God entrusted these babies to me.
Sometimes loving them looks soft - praying over them, nurturing them, teaching them, comforting them.

And sometimes love requires a backbone.

Sometimes it requires speaking up.
Drawing a boundary.
Standing against something that is wrong.
Refusing to stay quiet simply because quiet would be easier.

Our battle isn’t against flesh and blood.
People aren’t the enemy.

But evil is still evil.

So I’ll keep trying to love people like Jesus.

But when it’s time to flip a table?
Hand me the table. 🤎

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” - Romans 12:21

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08/07/2026

Some of the loudest battles we fight never leave our minds.

“You’re not enough.”

“You’re failing.”

“Everyone else is doing it better.”

“God could never use someone like you.”

The enemy has always twisted the truth.
He did it in the garden, and he still does it today.

But here’s the question I’ve been asking myself lately:

Does this thought sound like the voice of my Shepherd?

If the answer is no… maybe it’s time to stop agreeing with it.

God’s voice brings truth, conviction, peace, hope, and grace.
The enemy brings shame, fear, condemnation, and lies.

Not every thought that enters your mind deserves your agreement.

📖 “We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” - 2 Corinthians 10:5

Which lie have you had to replace with God’s truth recently? 🤍

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Maybe you didn’t check everything off your list this week.Maybe the laundry is still waiting.Maybe homeschool felt a lit...
08/07/2026

Maybe you didn’t check everything off your list this week.

Maybe the laundry is still waiting.

Maybe homeschool felt a little messy.

Maybe dinner was frozen pizza, and the dishes are still in the sink.

Friend… God never asked us to be perfect.

He calls us to be faithful.

The quiet, ordinary acts of obedience - the prayers whispered over your children, the meals prepared with love, the lessons taught around the kitchen table, the grace you extended when the day didn’t go as planned - those things matter.

“Let us not grow weary of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” - Galatians 6:9

As you head into the weekend, let this be your reminder:

🤎 Faithfulness over perfection. Every single time.

Save this for the days you need the reminder, and share it with a mom who might need the encouragement today. ✨

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08/06/2026

These were so fun & yummy!
The kids loved the process and the result 😍

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08/04/2026

Today was our very first day of homeschool for the 2026 school year. 🤎

Just last week this room was filled with moving boxes and everything we didn’t know where to put.

Today, it became our classroom.

My oldest started our K4 year, my middle started preschool, and together we began a brand new chapter for our family.

We kept it simple. We laughed, learned, explored God’s creation, and spent time in His Word.
It wasn’t perfect - and it didn’t need to be.

My prayer is to raise children who love the Lord, are curious about His creation, and never stop learning.

Here’s to our first full homeschool year.
May God guide every lesson, every challenge, and every sweet memory we make together. 🤍

P.S. A lot of what you’ll see us using this year (other than the Abeka curriculum) is from the Christian Homeschool Planner I created after struggling to find one that fit our family’s rhythm.

If you’re looking for a simple, faith-centered homeschool planner, it’s linked in my bio! 🫶

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07/31/2026

Anyone else weirdly attached to checklists? 😂

I love them… but I’ve also learned that if my checklist is unrealistic, it steals my peace instead of giving me direction.

So I stopped trying to fit into someone else’s routine and created one that actually works for this season of life.

Three little kids.
Homeschool.
Homemaking.
Real life.

It’s simple, flexible, and keeps our home moving without making me feel like I failed if I didn’t deep clean the baseboards. 🤍

I’ve been using it every day, and I decided to turn it into a completely free Home & Holiness Starter Kit for anyone who wants it.

It includes:
🤎 My daily family rhythm
🤎 Homemaking checklists
🤎 Scripture memory page
🤎 Prayer List
🤎 Printable planning pages
🤎 And a few of my favorite resources

Comment CHECKLIST and I’ll send it to you, or grab it from the link in my bio.

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Sometimes I think we expect God to meet us only during our quiet time…But Scripture reminds us that He is present in the...
07/28/2026

Sometimes I think we expect God to meet us only during our quiet time…

But Scripture reminds us that He is present in the ordinary too.

In the dishes.
In the diapers.
In the read-alouds.
In the homeschooling.
In the meals.
In the million interruptions.

Motherhood isn’t a distraction from your calling.

For many of us, it is the calling God has entrusted to us in this season.

So if today felt repetitive or unnoticed, remember this:

Nothing done in love for your family is wasted.

“Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:31

☕ Save this for a hard day.
🤎 Share it with another mom who needs the reminder.
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The world doesn’t always celebrate the quiet work of motherhood.No one applauds the bedtime prayers.The endless laundry....
07/27/2026

The world doesn’t always celebrate the quiet work of motherhood.

No one applauds the bedtime prayers.
The endless laundry.
The meals you make.
The homeschool lessons.
The middle-of-the-night cuddles.
The million little acts of love that make up your days.

But God sees every one of them.

Your home is more than a house.
Your motherhood is more than a season.
Your faithfulness is ministry. 🤍

If you’re preparing for homeschool this year, I’ve also been creating resources that I’m genuinely excited to use in our own home. ✨

My Christian Homeschool Planner is almost finished, and I’ve put together an Amazon homeschool favorites list with many of the things we’re using to create our classroom.

➡️ Comment HOMESCHOOL and I’ll send you the links when everything launches! 🤍
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07/23/2026

Every night is NOT this easy…

That isn’t realistic.

We’ve struggled with bedtime for a long time. Between military life, moving home, 40 days in the hospital, an emergency C-section, a new baby, a new house, and Will’s new job, our routine has been anything but consistent.

But now that life is settling down, we’ve become much more intentional about bedtime - and the difference has been amazing.

Our kids are happier, we’re more patient, and I actually have time to reset the house and decompress before bed.

A peaceful evening is built one
small, consistent habit at a time. 🤍

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