Catholic Mom Calm

There are an endless number of things to do for Lent. How do you choose?

And once you choose, how do you do Lent... well? Sterling breaks down what the word mindset means and how you can create an intentional mindset about Lent.

Join Lorissa and her husband Johnny on this light hearted episode where they share some insights from their nearly 20 years of marriage.

Join Denise Jelinek, special guest host of this episode, as she reveals the secrets to a healthier relationship with food. Listen to her powerful story of food recovery and discover how she has helped women find peace with food. Sign up for Denise's eight-week intensive starting Feb 13th and take the first step towards your own journey to food freedom.

Sterling gives an update on her life since discovery coaching. She talks about the discomfort of growing and why it is well worth the effort to heal your wounds and go for your dreams!

Sometimes, we all need a little bit of tough love to help us get out of our own way. On this episode, Lorissa shares an experience receiving some tough love from her mother that helped her re-write the story she was creating about her life.

It can be really painful when your husband is looking at his phone and not paying attention to you. But the way that you respond, you have 100% control over that. When you learn that you can act charitably even when your husband is playing games on his phone, you are going to feel so powerful as a Catholic mom. This is what the sainthood journey looks like.

Unintentional Model C: Husband looking at his phone T: He doesn't care about me. F: Unloved A: Snippy with husband, snippy with kids, clean the house angrily, think of all the other ways he doesn't care for you, act childishly, eating cookies/drinking wine/scrolling on your phone R: You don't care about him. You don't care about yourself.

Intentional Model C: husband looking at his phone T: I wonder what's going on with him. F: Charity/Curiosity A: Give him space, ask him later how he's doing, check in with what your needs really are, serve your own needs, serve the kids. R: You wonder what's going on with him. You wonder what's going on with yourself.

We are made for happiness, joy, love and fulfillment, but most of the time in order to experience these things, we have to be willing to step out of our comfort zone. In this episode, Lorissa share three ways in which we can step out of our comfort zone in order to step more fully into the lives of greatness God is inviting us to.

We all want to be better moms but it's a vague concept so we rarely make a plan for how to do it.

In this episode, Sterling lays out a four step plan for being a better Catholic mom. You can use this to improve your relationship with yourself and with your kids in 2023!

In this week's podcast episode, Lorissa and Sterling talk about this concept of a Sacred Self-Image and how we'll be teaching Catholic moms not only how to cultivate a sacred self-image but how to teach their kids to do the same!

On this podcast, Lorissa talks about the power of deciding ahead of time about how you want to feel heading into Christmas.

The practice of "deciding ahead of time" can be applied to any time of year or any event in which we want to be intentional about how we show up.