Catholic Mom Calm

I just got back from two weeks away (the Fulton Sheen conference in St. Louis and then France with my 15-year-old daughter) and I brought two big things with me to pray about in some very holy places.

I asked for clarity every single day, and I kept thinking He'd surely talk to me on the 10-hour flight home, because airplanes are where I so often hear Him. He didn't. When I crawled into bed at 11:30 that night I was surprised and honestly a little embarrassed.

Then a sentence came to me that may have been a gift from the Holy Spirit: if He didn't tell me, I don't need to know today. I'm sharing what I do when God is quiet, the three little lies I caught in my own head on the way home, and one question I'd love for you to ask about whatever is weighing on you right now. What if you already have everything you need today?

WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why God being quiet about your question might simply mean you don't need to know today, not that you're blocking His voice
• How "I have everything I need today" can be true next to a negative bank account, a hard diagnosis, or a child who's struggling
• God gives us no grace for our imaginary problems, so the hours we spend worrying about things that never happen are hours we don't get back
• The three stories I told myself when I came home without an answer, and how quickly they fell apart once I called them lies
• Why you can handle watching someone you love feel disappointed, even when it feels like they were counting on you
• Why I believe our prayers are a real currency, even the simple ones

EPISODE TIMELINE:

• [00:00] – Home after two weeks away: the Fulton Sheen conference in St. Louis and France with my daughter
• [04:00] – Bringing two big questions to holy places, and waiting for God to speak on the flight home
• [08:00] – "If He didn't tell me, I don't need to know" and a deeper level of surrender
• [12:00] – You have everything you need today, even in the big hard things
• [15:00] – The embarrassment, my husband's question, and the three lies I caught
• [18:00] – What if God said "you don't need that today"? Being present for the little things
• [20:00] – One Million Rosaries, the three-day workshop, and Party Like a Saint
• [24:00] – Why our prayers matter more than we think

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• One Million Rosaries Challenge (free, join any time, a prize given away every day): https://onemillionrosaries.com
• Three-day workshop with Rita Johnson on sleep, energy, and hormones, me on house systems, and Denise Jelinek on food and emotional self-care ($39, replays included): https://healthandhormones.org/back-on-track/
• Party Like a Saint (All Saints Day party goods): https://www.partylikeasaint.com/

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH:

• Website: https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm

Getting kids out the door is a banana circus. That's what I told my daughter in the driveway the other morning, after somebody forgot a lunch and we had to turn around and come back.

It's going to be a circus no matter what I do, because children bring chaos and no amount of systems fixes that. The only reason we're never late to school is that I just start the circus earlier than other people do.

So this episode is about being on time when you have kids, and underneath that it's really about how you adopt a new identity without beating yourself up to get there. I tell you where my own on-time thing came from (a vow I made in my heart as a little girl, which was woundedness), what it looked like to heal that and still genuinely like being on time, and then the actual mechanics: five minutes per kid, the five more minutes nobody budgets for between the front door and driving away, and accounting for the traffic and the train.

If you're chronically late, hear me say first that this is not a salvation issue and there is nothing wrong with you. And then if you want this, here's how.

WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• Where a "person who is never late" identity can come from, and the vow I made in my heart as a kid that I later had to go back and heal with Jesus
• Healing the wound without losing the habit, because being late doesn't have to mean anything about my character or about what I'm communicating to the host
• The five minutes per kid rule, plus the five minutes almost nobody budgets for between walking out the front door and actually pulling away
• Why I start telling everyone it's time to go a full 20 minutes before I want to be driving
• Why I help them find the shoes instead of waiting on them, since being on time matters to me and it doesn't matter to any of them
• Living with a husband whose identity has nothing to do with being on time (except for mass), when to prime him about parking, and then letting it go
• How you actually adopt a new identity: decide clearly, ask what a person like this would do, then practice it until your brain says okay, this is who we are
• Growing from peace instead of from "I'm so terrible," because you're perfectly lovable right now and you can still calmly decide you'd like something different
• Predictable chaos, the train you can get stuck behind for eight minutes, and bringing order to the parts you actually control

EPISODE TIMELINE:

• [00:00] – Growing up with a single mom, the tunnel traffic, and the vow I made about never being late
• [05:00] – Adding a baby to the timeline, then a three-year-old who can't find shoes, and adjusting for every kid
• [10:00] – Seeing the on-time thing as woundedness, healing it, and deciding that late doesn't mean anything about me
• [15:00] – A husband who doesn't care about being on time (except for mass), priming him, and then letting it go
• [20:00] – How identity actually works, 21 days versus 250 days, and deciding who you want to be
• [25:00] – The banana circus in the driveway, starting it earlier, the Sandpoint train, and a million roses for Mary

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• One Million Rosaries Challenge (join any time, the rosaries you pray after you sign up still count toward the total): https://onemillionrosaries.com
• Catholic Mom Calm (where I teach you how to go back to a memory with Jesus and heal it): https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Restore the Glory podcast with Bob Schuchts, the series on wounds and vows: https://www.restoretheglorypodcast.com/
• Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://amzn.to/4hEzeew

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH:

• Website: https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm

Here's something I find fascinating. A lot of us are living a balanced life with a brain that's a hot mess in there, and so a life we're actually executing really well ends up feeling terrible.

You got everybody fed and you made it to all the things on time, but your mind spent the whole day telling you how far behind you are, and that is what drained the battery. That's not a commitment problem. That's a thinking problem, and honestly it's good news, because you don't have to change your calendar to fix it.

So this episode is how I tell the difference, and then exactly what I do when it really is too much. I list everything out (including the meals and the laundry, because you're already committed to those), I put my finger on each one and pray "Lord, what do you want me to know about this?" and then I ask whether the healed version of me takes this on.

I also walk you through two real decisions from my own fall, the giant yes I'm so glad I said and the hard no I knew would disappoint people, and what happened after.

WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why the tired usually comes from your thinking and not from your schedule, because your body runs a physiological stress response all morning and drains the battery before anything has even happened
• What a balanced life with an unbalanced mind looks like, and the question to ask about yesterday to find out which one you've got
• Writing down every commitment, with meals and cleaning and clean clothes in big buckets, so your brain can see what it already signed up for
• Praying over each one with "Lord, what do you want me to know about this?" instead of "do you want me to keep this, yes or no," which boxes him in and leaves no room for a nuanced answer
• Some commitments are neutral to God, like the Honda Odyssey or the Toyota Sienna, and you can become a saint either way
• The question I'd never said out loud before: does the healed version of me take this on, or did I say yes out of woundedness
• What woundedness sounds like ("if I don't do it, no one will do it"), and the genuinely healthy version of that exact same yes
• Why the pressure to keep a good program alive is coming from your thinking, and being willing to tolerate some disappointment when the answer is no
• Going to the Lord for the "good job" you're not getting at home... even for cleaning the microwave

EPISODE TIMELINE:

(estimated at 5-minute marks, no timestamps in the transcript, confirm against audio)

• [00:00] – The art of saying no, and that includes backing out of things you already said yes to
• [05:00] – The morning your brain is off to the races, the car, and being tired from your thoughts instead of your day
• [10:00] – A balanced life and an unbalanced mind, and living the exact same day with a better attitude
• [15:00] – Listing every commitment out, the buckets you're already signed up for, and receiving what God gives you
• [20:00] – Praying over each one, neutral commitments, and "does the healed version of me say yes to this?"
• [25:00] – The giant yes: building a Catholic hybrid homeschool option at the parish over six months
• [30:00] – The hard no: stepping back from teaching atrium this year, cleaning the microwave, and the three steps together

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• Catholic Mom Calm (come learn how to manage your mind with us): https://catholicmomcalm.com
• One Million Rosaries Challenge (free, all of October, sign up and start a group): https://onemillionrosaries.com

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH:

• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm

I said it kind of offhandedly on a coaching call. "I want to be a blanket of peace in my home." And the moms would not let it go, so I have been sitting with it ever since. Here is what I mean. You have the ability to take your own emotional state and blanket a whole room with it. You already do it. Sometimes what you are laying over the kitchen is frustration or stress or that sharp voice, and sometimes it is calm. The part I want you to hear is that it is yours to choose.

This episode is me asking you to stop settling for awareness of your thinking and actually reach for the peace. I walk you through a chaotic Tuesday morning, two kids off to farm school, two girls off to co-op, a thirteen year old presenting in front of the entire community, and what happened when I decided ahead of time that I was going to be so calm that everyone around me calmed down. We talk about Mother Teresa and how far her peaceful light went into a room, why this kind of power is the power women actually want, and how to say "hey, we are not going to do that in this room, okay, love you" instead of the version you are doing now. Plus two announcements I am so excited about.

WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• What a blanket of peace actually is, and why your emotional state is the thing filling the room whether you picked it or not
• Humans catch each other's states both directions. Anxiety spreads, and so does calm, grounded and steady
• Awareness of your thinking is not the finish line. Reaching for peace on purpose is the next level
• Deciding before the hard morning starts, so that when they walk in frantic you meet them with the voice instead of matching them
• Why being at peace takes fewer words and less energy, and why it works so much better than snapping
• The power men chase out in the world, and the very different power a woman has to set the tone of a space
• Mother Teresa changed the energy of every room she walked into. How far did that light reach, and can mine do that
• Your mission this week: pick one time of day, one room, one situation where you have been tolerating chaos, and be the calm in it

EPISODE TIMELINE:

• [00:00] – Happy fall girl, sweaters and tea, and the phrase the moms would not let go of
• [05:00] – Blanketing the room with your emotional state, and taking hearts that are troubled and making them feel safe
• [10:00] – The co-op morning, the thirteen year old presenting, and speaking to them in the grounded voice
• [15:00] – Forest bear and "hey, we are not going to do that in this room, okay, love you." Dropping the excuses
• [20:00] – Mother Teresa's golden light, the wins call, and what Catholic Mom Calm is really about
• [25:00] – Announcement one: the One Million Rosaries Challenge for the month of October
• [30:00] – Announcement two: the Catholic Mom Calm app is almost here, plus France and a request for prayers

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• One Million Rosaries Challenge (free, all of October, sign up and start a group): https://onemillionrosaries.com

• Calm Catholic Kids app (free, and you can track your rosaries in it): https://calmcatholickids.com

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH:

• Website: https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm

Anxiety never comes from the Lord. So the second I feel that tightness show up in my chest, I already know something true about myself. I am thinking about my life in a way that God does not want me to think about it. Period. Because if I were thinking about it the way He wants me to, I would be at peace.

This episode is one question I want you to start asking faster than you are asking it right now. Not "Lord, take this away," but "Lord, what do you want me to know about this?" About this toddler. About my husband. About my body. About this house. I asked Him something this morning and He said, "You already know. You just doubt what I have already told you." Ooh, burn, Lord. We talk about why we are not reaching for Him sooner (we do not actually believe we could be at peace all the time), the grace you have to ask for before He hands it to you, what Fulton Sheen was doing in basically every talk he ever gave, and why Daniel in the lions' den and Mary at the foot of the cross were both at peace.

WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• The micro moment prayer: the second you notice tightness, throw your hands up and say "Lord, I invite you into this. Come be with me right now."
• Why anxiety is information and not a verdict. It tells you your thinking is off, not that your life is off
• The real reason we do not run to Him faster: we have never met a person who is at peace all the time, so we quietly decided it is not available to us
• Eight out of ten minutes. You will lose it. The win is how fast you come back
• Feeling powerless is the worst feeling there is, and being able to stay calm in any situation is one of the most powerful
• You are not done when you hear the sentence. Your job is to practice it, or your brain will spiral right back in two hours
• The gifts of the Holy Spirit were designed to be asked for. Wisdom, counsel, knowledge, understanding, fortitude, fear of the Lord. Ask
• Being at peace does not mean being peaceful. It means receiving. It means "this is okay right now and I can handle it"
• The surprise pregnancy test, the teenager going through it, the adult child who left the Church. You can be at peace today, in that

EPISODE TIMELINE:

(estimated at 5-minute marks, no timestamps in the transcript, confirm against audio)

• [00:00] – Hope when you feel anxious, trapped, stuck or frozen, and inviting the Lord into the micro moment
• [05:00] – "Lord, what do you want me to know about this?" Why anxiety never comes from Him, and what Mary has to do with our unbelief
• [10:00] – Eight out of ten minutes, and why staying calm is the most powerful you will ever feel
• [15:00] – Cheeky Jesus, the sentences He actually gives me, and writing them down so I can practice them
• [20:00] – My real morning (I do not pray first thing), redirecting my brain, and asking for grace and the gifts of the Holy Spirit
• [25:00] – Fulton Sheen, the beatification, and why all his talks end the same way. At peace is not peaceful. Daniel, Mary, Joseph and the donkey
• [30:00] – Who I belong to, true freedom, and an invitation to the Catholic Mom Reset

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• Join the Catholic Mom Reset: www.catholicmomcalm.com/reset
• Fulton Sheen beatification, plus the conference with Arthur Brooks the day before (Sterling will have a table, come say hi): www.fultonsheenconference.com/

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH:

• Website: https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm

I am team planning. I am team house systems. We teach it in the membership and it is the very first thing we tackle in the Catholic Mom Reset, because looking at your next 90 days and making a plan is genuinely a gift to your future self. But if you took all of it away tomorrow, dropped me in a different house in a different town with no idea what the next 90 days held, I would be okay. I could walk around and have peace. That is the part I want for you.

A lot of women tell me they are type A planners. There is a healthy version of that. There is also a version that gets built in a childhood full of chaos you could not control, or in a home where performing well was how you got love and attention. Both of those grow up into a woman who plans beautifully, and one of them is holding on with an iron grip. This episode is how to tell which one you are running on, the five minute healing work that sets the grip down, and the sentence I said to a mom on a coaching call that changed her whole face.

WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why the plan is not what makes you feel calm (you make a plan, then you think "I have a plan," and the thought is what creates safety in your body)
• The two childhoods that produce a hyper-planner: chaos you had no control over, and love you had to earn by performing
• The difference between planning that feels light and playful and planning you believe you cannot survive without
• Abraham walking up the mountain and the Israelites who never got the itinerary, and what peace looked like for both
• Tolerating uncertainty is a capacity you can grow, the same way a kid grows from 37 seconds to a minute and a half underwater
• The five minute memory work I use, sitting in the theater with the Lord while He tells you the truth about what really happened
• What I told the mom who was afraid that moving every two years would rob her kids of roots and stability

EPISODE TIMELINE:

• [00:00] – Why I wanted to do this episode, and why I am solidly team planning and team systems
• [05:00] – All brains hate uncertainty, the AI conversation nobody can predict, and the skill we can actually grow
• [10:00] – Your body feels your thinking, not your plan. The Israelites, and Abraham on the mountain
• [15:00] – The car breaks down. The husband's job might move you. How to answer your own brain
• [20:00] – Chaos versus performance, the grounded healthy version of you, and asking the Lord what we are doing today
• [25:00] – Bob Schuchts, inner child work, and revisiting a memory with Jesus in five minutes
• [30:00] – "You are their mom. You bring roots and stability everywhere you go." Protocols, and week one of the Reset

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• The Catholic Mom Reset (starts Sunday, September 6th, first live call Thursday, September 10th)
• Bob Schuchts books
• Brya Hannan book on inner child healing (do one chapter a month, it is deep work)
• Restore the Glory podcast with Bob Schuchts and Jake Khym
• Calm Catholic Kids: https://calmcatholickids.com

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH:

• Website: https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm

"People love change. They just hate transition." I heard Matthew Kelly teach that years ago and I think about it every single August. Because right now I'm getting a hundred emails from the school, two of my boys walked out today in socks with giant holes in the heels, and there's a lunchbox in this house that will not zip.

If your body is fritzing out over start dates and supply lists and shoe sizes, nothing has gone wrong. You're not in the change yet. You're in the transition, and I want to give you the exact words to say to your own brain while you're standing in the middle of it. Plus a summer update: our little red golden retriever, the sickness that took my husband down, walking in 87 degrees on purpose, 200 Fulton Sheen rosaries, and the press-on nails I just ordered off an internet ad.

WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why change and transition are two different things, and why the yucky feeling belongs to the transition and not to your decision
• What to tell your brain when it starts second-guessing (the feeling is bad, so the choice must be wrong) and why that's backwards
• Who you are in a transition is not who you're going to be, whether that's back-to-school or pregnancy or a move you didn't choose
• The two weeks plus two weeks rhythm I use: get ready, live it, evaluate at the end of the day, tweak, then settle into the change
• Giving equal air time, because your brain will spend all day on what could go wrong and about nine seconds on what you're excited about
• The folder-and-calendar hack that keeps the school email avalanche from hanging over you every hour of the day
• Looking for what was good in a hard season, even when the good thing is just the timing of it

EPISODE TIMELINE:

• [00:00] – Mid-August, the nesting itch, and going from wild open summer to ordered fall
• [05:00] – Annie Avonlea, a sickness that hit everyone one at a time, and what was actually good about it
• [10:00] – Walking in the heat on purpose, France prep, and giving equal air time to the excitement
• [15:00] – Making Fulton Sheen rosaries, why moms need work that gets finished, and yes, the press-on nails
• [20:00] – "People love change. They just hate transition." The emails, the socks, the lunchbox that won't zip
• [25:00] – Talking to your brain in the transition, and the four weeks it actually takes to settle
• [30:00] – The email folder hack, and having peace today in the middle of all of it

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• Join the Catholic Mom Reset: www.catholicmomcalm.com/reset
• Calm Catholic Kids: https://calmcatholickids.com
• Fulton Sheen beatification conference: https://fultonsheenconference.com/

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm

Almost everything you believe about your kids' schooling is an opinion, not a fact — and most of those opinions are quietly manufacturing stress in your body. In this episode, I walk you through why your feelings about school come from your thinking, how I choose school for my six kids with detachment (we're doing three different things this year), and the one trick I use to stop emotionally processing problems that haven't happened yet.

Whether you've got toddlers, a struggling nine-year-old, or a high schooler who bit off more than she can chew, I want you to notice how you're showing up — because the more stressed you are about their education, the worse you show up for them. I'll show you how to trade the tightness for problem-solving energy, hope, and peace. Sterling Jaquith.

WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why "well-educated" is impossible to define — and how AI is about to make general knowledge plus the ability to ask good questions matter more than the drills we stress over
• The difference between thoughts that just feel good ("my kid speaks Spanish!") and thoughts that are actually true
• How to sit in the discomfort of watching your child struggle without deciding something has gone wrong
• My favorite trick: refusing to emotionally process a made-up future problem (yes, even the diocese one)
• How to tell yourself the best possible story about whatever schooling you've chosen — including reframing public school as mission territory

EPISODE TIMELINE:

(estimated — confirm against audio)

[00:00] – Why I finally made an episode about school, and the guilt episode I'll link for homeschoolers [06:00] – Your feelings about school come from your thinking, and "well-educated" can't be defined [13:00] – How AI changes education, the Roman Empire example, and feel-good thoughts vs. true ones [20:00] – Choosing school with detachment: my six kids, three different approaches this year [27:00] – The struggling-in-math example, and coaching a mom worried her high achiever over-committed [34:00] – "I'll process it if it happens," modeling peace, and reframing public school as mission territory

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• The May episode on homeschool "how far did we get" guilt: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/schooling-guilt-and-stress/id1542253372?i=1000656369341

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH:

• Website: https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm

The internet is very loud about AI right now, so I want to tell you exactly where I stand in July of 2026, both personally and as a company, so you can start forming your own opinion. For the most part I'm team AI. I also think it's going to create some genuinely scary things in our society, the same way the internet and smartphones did. Both can be true.

My favorite thing about it? It cuts through the noise. Instead of clicking through twenty websites full of pop-ups and people trying to sell me something, I can ask a question and get a clear answer, then ask for the counterarguments too.

In this episode I walk through how I use it in real life (skincare, salad dressings, puppy training, fact-checking those sensational ads), the private questions you'd never Google, and exactly where I draw my hard lines. I also pull back the curtain on how Catholic Mom Calm uses AI and where we absolutely don't, so you know what's touched by it and what isn't.

WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• Where I land on AI in July 2026: mostly team AI, and clear-eyed about the harm too
• My favorite thing about it, cutting through the internet's noise (Google's AI Mode, and always asking "what's the counterargument, and who's making it?")
• The intimacy-call tip: asking private questions you'd never Google, telling it you're Catholic first, and deleting the thread
• How I use it at home: skincare picks, homemade salad dressing, a week-by-week puppy plan, and fact-checking those sensational ads
• Where I draw hard lines: not for prayer, not for religious art, and why real artists and musicians still make our work
• How Catholic Mom Calm actually uses it (story research, email arcs, financials, coding the app) and where we still won't (design)
• The Calm Catholic Kids app is out, why I made it "the most boring app ever," and a word on kids, AI, and Pope Leo's letter

EPISODE TIMELINE:

• [00:00] – Where I stand on AI in July 2026
• [05:00] – Cutting through the noise: Google's AI Mode and asking for both sides
• [10:00] – The intimacy-call tip, and telling it you're Catholic
• [15:00] – Skincare, salad dressings, puppy plans, and fact-checking sensational ads
• [20:00] – Where I draw the line: prayer, religious art, and real artists
• [25:00] – How Catholic Mom Calm uses AI (and how it doesn't)
• [30:00] – The app is out, kids and AI, and Pope Leo's letter

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• The Calm Catholic Kids app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calm-catholic-kids/id6768798893
• Calm Catholic Kids (buy the collections here, not through the app, so you skip Apple's 30%): https://calmcatholickids.com
• Xavier Co-op (my new two-and-a-half-day hybrid school launching this fall): https://xaviercoop.com
• Come to France with me this fall: https://catholicmomcalm.com/france/
• My skincare routine: Cetaphil cream (I get this at costco) Blue Lizard sunscreen TruSkin Face Serum
• Pope Leo's letter on AI: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
• The AI tools I mentioned: ChatGPT, Claude, Google's Gemini (AI Mode), and Grok

CHECK OUT MY WORK:

• Website: https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm
• Mary's Heart, Martha's Order Planner: https://catholicmomcalm.com/planner

It's Friday night, I'm home alone, and I'm recording a completely ridiculous episode. No coaching, no reframe, just me wanting to talk to someone about episode one of the new Elle Woods show on Amazon Prime. My husband took the kids to the beach, I opened Prime, and this little show whisked me right back to being a '90s Seattle grunge girl.

Fair warning: this one is pure nostalgia. If you grew up in the '90s, went to concerts, lived anywhere near the Pacific Northwest, or ever dyed a strip in your hair and thought it was the coolest thing ever (it was not, but it was to me), come sit with me for a few minutes. And if that's not you, skip this one. I promise next week's episode gets deep and coachy again.

WHAT I COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why the show is a love letter to 40-year-old women who grew up on Legally Blonde (and why they nailed it)
• The soundtrack, the plaid, the hoodies, the one girl with an umbrella, and how perfectly they captured '90s Seattle grunge
• My own Seattle years, from Capitol Hill to Green Lake, walking my puppies and running my dog-training business
• The clique-and-judge culture of '90s high school, and my honest confession about who I would have been to a new girl like Elle
• Why I love that the show's characters are positive and kind, and what that stirred up in me as a parent now
• A little window into the me you might not know: concerts, green Doc Martens, and starting a web design company at 17

LINKS AND RESOURCES:

• Come to France with me https://catholicmomcalm.com/france/
• Calm Catholic Kids (Summer of Kindness stories free now, Collections 4 and 5 coming soon): https://calmcatholickids.com

CONNECT WITH STERLING JAQUITH:

• Website: https://catholicmomcalm.com
• Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catholicmomcalm