like a mother

Motherhood requires sacrifice, adaptability, patience, but perhaps most of all, healthy measures of hopefulness and humility. Designer, CEO of BeAHeart, and wife and mom, Erica Tighe Campbell, shares her story of sobriety, mental health diagnoses, passion for creative design, and the realization that humility and hope are the fuel for everything in motherhood. 

 https://beaheart.com/

This episode is supported by National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.org and
The Marriage Group, http://www.themarriagegroup.com/

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What happens when your marriage, and your motherhood, doesn’t look like you expected? Elieen Perez, a single mom of two young girls, shares her story of divorce, single motherhood, and finding joy, even in the moments that are unexpected and hard, and offers insights into how all joy is circumstantial, and something we’re called to embrace fully. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/franciseileenperez/

Steubenville Adult Conferences: https://steubenvilleconferences.com/adult/ 

This episode is supported by the National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.org
and 52 Sundays at www.52sundays.com

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Each of our kids has a unique, specific, beautiful particularity, and our job as moms is to help that grow. Haley Stewart, mom of four, wife of a whiskey distiller, and editor of Word on Fire Spark, a children’s imprint, is a mom who celebrates and invests in the unique beauty of her children, and she shares how we can embrace that journey with joy, patience, and an awareness of the eternal nature of the work we do, as moms. 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HaleyCarrots

Substack: https://haleystewart.substack.com/

Word on Fire SPARK: https://books.wordonfire.org/sparkwaitlist

This episode is supported by National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.org

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Motherhood is a lifetime lesson in detachment, a constant recognition that we only have so much control. Moms tend gardens where the Lord grows something remarkable, and religious sisters tend those gardens in beautiful, humble, and often unseen ways. Sister Josephine Garrett, a religious sister, mental health counselor, and author shares how she has learned how to hold her spiritual motherhood and spiritual children lightly, rather than grasp and clench with a spirit of control. Those lessons in holding lightly can benefit us all. 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SJOSEPHINE_CSFN
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sr_josephine/

This episode is supported by National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.org

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When loss seems to be the theme of your life, and when grief sits heavy in your heart, how do you pick up the pieces and not only carry on, but continue to create beautiful things? After years of infertility, a miscarriage, and then the death of her newborn twins, Laura K. Fanucci sought companionship with the Lord and began to create beautiful things as a result. This is her story. 

Check out Laura and her husband's book: Grieving Together: A Couple’s Journey through Miscarriage

This episode is supported by National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.org

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What happens when you look around your Church and realize something is missing? That representation is not there? You do something about it. At least, that’s what Sarah Ku did. She sought to build, rather than simply criticize. To create a ministry, and work on creating resources, to represent her Asian Catholic heritage, for herself, and her kids, and in the process, discovered something about herself, the way she parents, and what the Church needs most. 

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The words “this is my body, given up for you” are said at every Mass, and are spoken by every mother, day in and day out, as we wipe and wean and walk with our children through the mess and grime and joy and delight of daily life. How a mother comes to understand this call to sacrifice and gift of self is perhaps the greatest spiritual journey she’ll ever undertake. 

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Mom of 6, Rachel Bulman, reflects on the heavy weight of motherhood, in that we are planting seeds for eternity with the hearts and minds of our children, and how even in the midst of that weighty responsibility, we are called to be intimate with the Lord who loves us, so that we can better love others. 

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Catholic mothers face: criticism, comparison, worries & fears they’ll fail, overwhelming responsibilities, and at times, perhaps even resentment. But, there is also a remarkable joy as one mothers, and one comes to understand what motherhood is (and isn’t), and that joy is best shared from honest, authentic, revealing conversations about successes, failures, and the ongoing experience of learning how to be a mom. This episode will introduce the trajectory of the podcast, and include a conversation with my own mom, a Catholic convert who raised us in the Church, faced struggles with infertility, and whose daughters are both still (very) Catholic.

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Angela Garbes, author of ESSENTIAL LABOR and LIKE A MOTHER, in conversation with Julia Turshen.

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