Ben and Shauna Weaver got married six months before COVID hit — and found out they were pregnant the same month the world shut down. What followed was a crash course in marriage, parenthood, and faith that neither of them saw coming.
Ben spent fifteen years in vocational ministry before becoming an entrepreneur and men’s coach. Shauna is a mental health therapist and writer behind the Substack Upside Down Motherhood. Together, they’re two intense, independent people who made a decision early on: they would never sleepwalk through their marriage.
In this episode, they get honest about what it actually looks like to keep choosing each other — through career changes, a black mold crisis, and the daily friction of two capable, strong-willed people sharing a life.
**We cover:**
\* Why the pandemic ended up being one of the sweetest seasons of their marriage
\* The daily and weekly rhythms keeping them genuinely connected
\* Navigating two intense personalities without resenting your differences
\* The “orphan mentality” — living like God is absent even when you say you believe He’s not
\* Three real-time parenting frameworks: attachment, polyvagal theory, and body budgeting
\* What they’d tell their younger selves about marriage and parenthood
**Find Ben & Shauna:**Shauna’s Substack: Upside Down MotherhoodBen’s YouTube: Life in the Bigger Story (@biggerstory)
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