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February 26 The Friday Fast and the Miracle I Never Expected
What if the desire to drink simply disappeared?
In this powerful and personal episode, I share the miracle that happened on New Year’s Day after four years of fasting from alcohol on Wednesdays and Fridays.
If you have ever struggled with over drinking or breaking a habit during Lent, this conversation will meet you with hope and clarity.
We discuss Friday night cravings, how alcohol affects the brain, the role of spiritual fasting in reshaping desire, and how perseverance invites grace.
This episode connects Catholic discipline, brain science, and redemptive suffering — and shows how miracles are often built slowly through faithfulness.
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23 min
February 19 Wanted: Serious Catholics
The ashes may be gone, but the decision to take Lent seriously begins now.
In a world filled with confusion and spiritual fatigue, this episode calls Catholics to move beyond minimum observance and step into real spiritual discipline.
If you’ve ever sensed that Lent should be more than giving up chocolate, this conversation will meet you right where you are.
In this episode, we discuss why fasting every Wednesday and Friday can transform your prayer life, how simple meals and small sacrifices sharpen spiritual focus, and why the Holy Spirit leads us deeper into truth through discipline. Lent is a gift — and the desert is where saints are formed.
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23 min
February 12 Change Your Life This Lent!
Lent isn’t meant to be comfortable - it’s meant to be transformational.
In this episode, I invite you to rethink Lent as a holy adventure, not a box to check or a season to endure.
When we approach Lent with intention, fasting, and trust in God’s grace, it becomes one of the most powerful seasons of growth in the Christian life.
We explore why fasting matters, how planning for Lent changes everything, and what The Hobbit can teach us about sacrifice, courage, and spiritual warfare.
This episode connects Catholic tradition, redemptive suffering, and the hope of Easter, reminding us that the fast always comes before the feast - and that we are designed for both.
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24 min
February 05 Coaching on Tough Situations
Hard situations don’t ruin us - avoiding them does.
In this powerful episode of the Delay and Pray Podcast, you’ll hear a real coaching session that shows how clarity, faith, and disciplined thinking can transform even the most emotionally charged circumstances.
This is not theory; it’s lived experience rooted in Catholic truth.
In this episode, Beth coaches a client through a difficult work situation using the Delay and Pray thought model, journaling, redemptive suffering, and the sacraments.
You’ll learn how separating facts from drama, sitting with discomfort, and fasting spiritually restores peace, self-control, and freedom - one faithful step at a time.
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31 min
January 29 Football and Fasting
An unlikely football championship stirred something far deeper than sports emotion - and it has everything to do with fasting, faith, and obedience to God.
In this episode, I share how Indiana University’s miraculous football season became a powerful lens for understanding spiritual discipline and God’s supernatural timing.
If you’re working hard with little visible fruit, this episode will encourage you to keep going.
We talk about the connection between athletic training and spiritual fasting, how suffering fuels motivation, the role of Catholic faith in true success, and why fasting and praying for others invites grace into the world.
This is a story about discipline, humility, and how God turns impossible situations into testimonies when we trust Him fully.
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26 min
January 22 January-The Door to the New Year
Epiphany is the Church’s doorway into the new year - a feast that turns Christmas from a celebration into a mission.
In this episode, we reflect on Christ revealed to the nations, the journey of the Wise Men, and how January invites us to respond with intention, sacrifice, and love refined by prayer.
Beth explores how Epiphany reveals Jesus as Lord for all people and asks how we will respond now that He has been made known to us, how the gifts of the Magi—gold, frankincense, and myrrh—teach us to offer love, continual prayer, and fasting as participation in Christ’s life, and how spiritual fasting reorders desire, transforms suffering into gift, and sends us home by another way, changed by encounter with Christ.
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14 min
January 15 Why January Resolutions Fail
January is full of hope - and pressure.
New plans, new promises, and resolutions that often fade by mid-month.
In this episode, Beth Bubik explains why resolutions fail and what actually brings lasting change.
In this episode, we discuss why behavior-based resolutions don’t work and why formation does, how temperance transforms desire at the root, not just actions, and why spiritual fasting succeeds where dieting always fails.
This is not about motivation or willpower. It’s about order, virtue, and peace in body and soul.
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39 min
January 08 How to Plan Your Evening Eating to Win the Battle
Late afternoon and evening eating is one of the most common struggles in spiritual fasting—and it’s not a failure of willpower.
In this episode, Beth teaches why the 4–8pm window is so challenging and how to plan ahead so fasting becomes an act of love instead of a daily battle.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to understand what’s really happening biologically, emotionally, and spiritually between 4–8pm, plan your afternoons and evenings in advance to eliminate decision fatigue and grazing, and turn late-day hunger into powerful prayer, intercession, and spiritual fasting
Your 4pm struggle is not a character flaw—it’s a transition hour. When you plan it intentionally, the battle shifts in your favor.
Join the $1000 Delay and Pray® Group Coaching Experience now! Learn how to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks while growing closer to Christ. Get on the waitlist at thecatholicfastingcoach.com
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21 min
January 01 Happy New Year!
Happy New Year and welcome to 2026!
On this episode, Beth reflects on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, and what it means to begin the New Year the Catholic way—with gratitude, trust, and a faithful yes.
Looking back at the graces of 2025 and stepping forward into 2026 with faith, Beth uses It’s a Wonderful Life to explore how holiness is often lived quietly through obedience, family life, and daily surrender.
This episode invites you to embrace spiritual fasting as mission and to begin the year under Mary’s mantle with joy and purpose.
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40 min
December 25, 2025 Christmas Episode: Fit for the King Holiday Eating
Merry Christmas! In this special Christmas Day episode, Beth and Christine celebrate the birth of Jesus—the Infant King—and explore what it means to be “fit for a King.”
The Incarnation sanctifies our humanity: our bodies, our appetites, our movement, and our rest. This is the day when heaven meets earth—and how we feast matters.
Beth connects biology, neurology, and theology to show how we can glorify God in body and soul.
Listeners will learn to feast with intention, stay rooted in virtue during the Christmas octave, and keep the joy of the season alive long after the decorations come down.
Download the Holiday Eating Guide and get on the Waitlist for the $1000 Delay and Pray Group Coaching Experience at thecatholicfastingcoach.com to help you balance food, movement, and prayer through the entire holiday season.
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22 min

About Delay and Pray

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Delay and Pray® is a weekly podcast about Spiritual Fasting especially true when it comes to losing weight permanently. Beth Bubik is the The Catholic Fasting Coach and she is an expert on the subject of Spiritual Fasting: Why to do it. How to do it. And, when to do it. It's all about delaying food for a spiritual purpose--especially sugar, flour, and alcohol. She coaches Catholics how to spiritually and physically fast to utilize their weight and food struggles as a gift to explode their own prayer lives while helping the souls of others.