Karen Ehman

Karen Ehman is a Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker and New York Times Best-selling author. Described as profoundly practical, engagingly funny and downright real, her passion is to help women to live their priorities and love their lives as they serve God and others.

Karen writes for Encouragement for Today online devotions that bring God's peace, perspective, and purpose to over one million women daily. She has authored seven books including the popular LET. IT. GO: How to Stop Running the Show & Start Walking in Faith and her newest release Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It and When to Say Nothing at All. Both include a companion DVD Bible study designed for group or individual use. Her next book, Hoodwinked: Ten Myths Moms Believe and Why We All Need to Knock It Off releases in November of 2015 and is co-authored with Ruth Schwenk of TheBetterMom.com.

She is also the Speaker Track Director of Proverbs 31 She Speaks Conference and a teaching staff member of their writer's training site COMPEL.

She has been a guest on national television and radio programs including The 700 ClubAt Home LiveFamilyLife Today, Engaging WomenThe Harvest ShowMoody Midday Connection, and Focus on the Family. She is a graduate of Spring Arbor University and has been married for over a quarter-century to her college sweetheart Todd. Together they raise their three sometimes quarrelsome but mostly charming children in the boondocks of central Michigan ranging in age from teen to adult.

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Sometimes it feels like "Just a Mom" is the lowest rung of the social ladder. But Jill Savage, Ashley Escue, Meg Meeker, and Karen Ehman tell moms that their role in their children's lives is irreplaceable. View Show Notes →
Karen Ehman and Nicole Unice, former controllers, discuss how parenting is all about training your children to make wise choices and eventually working yourself out of a job. View Show Notes →
At home, who gets their way most of the time? Is it you or your spouse? Author Karen Ehman and Nicole Unice share from their life experiences of letting go of control. View Show Notes →
Nicole Unice and Karen Ehman believe that the root of control is fear or pride. Husbands can help their wives to put life in context and encourage them to be okay with less than perfect. View Show Notes →
Scripture says there is life and death in the power of the tongue. Karen Ehman offers some coaching and suggestions for taming your tongue. View Show Notes →
Karen Ehman encourages women to be realistic about how much time they have and to focus on the things that really matter. View Show Notes →
Karen Ehman tells how astonished she was when she had her first child and realized that motherhood was actually hard. View Show Notes →