Letters to Women - Exploring the Feminine Genius

By Chloe Langr

Religion & Spirituality Christianity

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Join Chloe Langr as she explores how Catholic women embrace their unique feminine genius in their ordinary, daily life.

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Letters to Women - Exploring the Feminine Genius episodes:

04.09.2024
A Letter to the Mother Grieving Her Baby Who Died // Dr. Abigail Jorgensen
In this fifth episode of the Letters to Mothers season, we’re talking about mothering our babies who we’ve lost in miscarriage, still birth, and infant loss. Losing a child is heartbreaking and devastating. For mothers who lose a child before...
03.26.2024
A Letter to the Mother Who Is Trying to Make It to Bedtime without Yelling // Johanna Seagren
In this fourth episode of the Letters to Mothers series, Johanna Seagren joins me to discuss emotional regulation, our interior life, and burnout in our motherhood. Parenting is hard work, and sometimes it’s louder, messier, more complicated, and packed with...
03.12.2024
A Letter to the Mother Wondering about Foster Care and Adoption
In this third episode of the Letters to Mothers series, Kimberly Henkel of Springs of Love joins me to discuss foster care and adoption. We’re talking about how Kimberly and her husband Greg discerned the call to foster care. We’re...
02.27.2024
A Letter to the Mother Discerning Family Size with Her Spouse // Grace Stark
In this second episode of the Letters to Mothers series, Grace Stark from Natural Womanhood joins me to discuss fertility awareness and motherhood. This is a conversation about authentic womens’ healthcare, how to grow in an appreciation of your fertility...
02.13.2024
A Letter to the Mother Who Has a Love/Hate Relationship with Her Postpartum Body // Shelby Hirschman
In this first episode of the Letters to Mothers season we’re talking about a topic that so many of us are familiar with—body image. It’s a topic we’ve talked about on the show, but I wanted to revisit it with...
02.12.2024
Introducing Letters to Mothers
Letters to Women returns February 13th with a season dedicated to motherhood. Plus, Chloe shares her favorite part of Saint Pope John Paul II’s original Letter to Women and reveals a few other surprises. Stay in touch and learn about upcoming...
12.07.2023
A Letters to Women Update
A quick update about why there hasn't been a new episode of Letters to Women in your podcast feed lately ... and an announcement about the future of the podcast.
10.24.2023
A Letter to the Woman Wondering How Theology of the Body Practically Applies to Her Life // Lillian Fallon
Should we care about what we wear? The short answer is “yes”—but don’t pull out your headphones just yet. There’s more to the conversation than that. What about style? What do you think of when you hear that word? Maybe...
09.18.2023
A Letter to the Woman Who Doesn’t Think She’s Beautiful // Melissa Johnson
It’s time we get honest with ourselves as women today—we’re being lied to. Today’s cultural beauty standards are messed up. We all know it, and we all think we can resist the pull to look a certain way. But most...
09.04.2023
A Letter to the Woman Tired of Being Told Who She Should Be // Mary Rose Somarriba
We’re living in a world of filters and photoshop. Thanks to the constant pull from the smartphone in your pocket, you might be experiencing internet overwhelm and social media fatigue. Is there any relatable women’s media out there that gives...
08.21.2023
A Letter to the Woman Who Wants to Start Praying with (And For!) Her Spouse // Dr. Sarah Bartel
Have you ever wished you prayed more with your spouse, but you don’t know where to start? Maybe you’re confident in praying FOR your spouse, but WITH them? In this episode, I’m sitting down with Dr. Sarah Bartel and we’re talking...
07.31.2023
A Letter to the Woman Examining Her Day // Tsh Oxenreider
Have you ever had the experience that life is flying by you at lightning speed and you’re just an observer? The year is already over halfway done, you’re not sure really what you’ve even done for the past six months....
07.17.2023
A Letter to the Woman Who Feels Alone // Sarah Swafford
When Sarah Swafford first started talking to college students about friendship, it was 2007. They were trying to figure out cellphones, dorm life, emotions, and virtue. Sixteen years later, Sarah is still talking about friendship—and it hasn’t gotten any easier...
07.03.2023
A Letter to the Woman Who Feels Guilty about Creativity // Grace Babineau
I’m sitting down with Grace Babineau. She’s a wife and mom of two, and she recently wrote an article on Verily Magazine called “Thrift is the Really Romantic Thing” about why saving money might be the best thing for your...
05.29.2023
A Letter to the Woman Who Loves Someone Struggling with Addiction// Keaton Douglas
We all know someone struggling with substance use disorder. We might not know it, but since nearly one in five Americans older than twelve reported illicit drug use in 2018, someone in our life is struggling. And those numbers were...
05.15.2023
A Letter to the Woman Creating a Rule of Life // Kimberly Hahn
Have you ever wanted to sit down with a woman who is a few season of life ahead of you, settle in on her couch with a big cup of coffee, and pick her brain about all of the joys...
05.01.2023
A Letter to the Woman Who Never Gets through Her To-Do List //Thérèse Desilets
There are so many tasks on our to-do lists as women, wives, and moms that are repetitive—and hidden. You plan meals every week and wander the aisle of your grocery store, only to be back again the week after to...
04.17.2023
A Letter to the Woman Afraid to Admit That She’s Not Okay // Crystalina Evert
Every single one of us has a feminine genius -- a particular way that the Lord is inviting us to bring forth new life into the world. But embracing that feminine genius in your daily life can be incredibly challenging...
04.03.2023
A Letter to the Woman Teaching the Faith While Running around with Littles // Jackie Angel
It’s an incredible gift to share the beauty of the Catholic faith with the kids in our lives. Whether you’re sharing about Christ in the Eucharist with your toddler, diving into Scripture together, or preparing children for their first reconciliation...
03.20.2023
A Letter to the Woman Looking Forward to Farmer’s Markets // Alexandra Greeley
For 2,000 years, Catholics have been at the heart of the culinary arts. Maybe this shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering the sacred feast of the Eucharist and how it gives life to our faith. But, like so many other things...
03.06.2023
A Letter to the Woman Who Doesn’t Feel Like Praying a Rosary // Shannon Wendt
In my home growing up, we said a family Rosary every morning at 9am—my mom, dad, and seven siblings gathered in the living room and prayed together. We took turns leading decades and corralling toddlers. But when I moved out, I...
02.06.2023
A Letter to the Woman Who Wasn’t Expecting Marriage To Be This Hard // Beth Sri
Valentine’s day is around the corner, and that means that you might be encountering a lot of Instagram-worthy pictures and posts about marriages over the next few days. And the vocation of marriage is incredible. God draws spouses closer to...
01.09.2023
A Letter to the Woman Practicing Courage // KJ Ramsey
We’ve all experienced moments of pain and suffering. And while all of us carry different crosses, suffering is something that is part of every one of our stories. But how do you pray when you struggle to find words to express...
12.26.2022
A Letter to the Woman Who Wants To Read Through the Bible in a Year // Meg Hunter-Kilmer
Hey friends, Merry Christmas season! I love that this episode drops in your podcast feed the day after Christmas, and I hope it finds you well rested and joyful. Our little Langr crew has been sick this past week, so...
12.12.2022
A Letter to the Woman Who Is an Adopted Daughter of God // Allison Gingras
Have you ever witnessed the Lord do something incredible in your life? And when you see him at work, what is your response? Do you share it with everyone who will listen, or do you keep it to yourself? So often,...
11.28.2022
A Letter to the Woman Examining Her Relationships // Nell O’Leary
The Lord wants to draw you ever closer to himself. He wants to transform you, and in doing so, transform every single relationship in your life—he’s leaving no stone unturned. But growing in deeper relationship involves the hard and holy work...
11.14.2022
A Letter to the Woman Drawn to God Through Beauty // Kate Marin
In his Letter to Artists, St. Pope John Paul II said that “Human beings, in a certain sense, are unknown to themselves.” Jesus reveals who God is, but he also fully reveals us to ourselves. Yet we often find ourselves...
10.24.2022
A Letter to the Woman Who Wants To Love the Lord With All Her Mind // Rachel Bulman
What does it mean to think deeply as Catholic women today? When you hear that question, do you worry that it means spending endless hours reading and writing academic papers? Do you wonder if pursuing the intellectual life isn’t for you because...
10.10.2022
A Letter to the Woman Battling Pornography and Masturbation // Rachael Killackey
Today’s episode contains a conversation on sexual addiction and healing. If you listen around little ears, you might want to grab a pair of headphones. No one intends to get addicted to pornograpy, masturbation, or other disordered sexual desires. And it...
09.26.2022
A Letter to the Woman Navigating the Grief of Child Loss// Kelly Breaux
There is something so challenging and good in St. Paul’s words to the Romans when he tells them (and us) to both rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. Grieving is hard. And accompanying others who...
09.12.2022
A Letter to the Woman Who Has Nothing Left To Give // Emily Jaminet
About a year ago, when I’d find myself with nothing left to give, I started asking Jesus for His Sacred Heart. I asked him to give me his heart to love those around me, because my little heart was so...
08.29.2022
A Letter to the Woman In A Season Where Friendship Seems Impossible // Lea-Anne Virnig
Has every conversation in this miniseries on friendship has left you whispering “But that won’t work for me"? Today, I’m sitting down with Lea-Anne Virnig. Lea-Anne is a writer and speaker passionate about inspiring women to live in the freedom of...
08.15.2022
A Letter to the Woman Dreaming About the Beach // Noelle Mering
I’d just like to start this episode off with a moment of total honesty in which I reveal to you that one of my biggest fears is fish. I can’t stand them. I don’t swim in the ocean, I don’t...
08.01.2022
A Letter to the Woman Making Friends on the Internet // Elizabeth Vargas
This summer, I’m focusing in on the topic of friendship with other women, and in this third episode of the series, I’m sitting down with Elizabeth Vargas. Elizabeth is the recipe developer and photographer behind the blog “Elizabeth’s Table”. She was...
07.18.2022
A Letter to the Woman Seeking Christ in Her Friendships // Lindsay Schlegel
This summer, I’m focusing in on the topic of friendship with other women, and in this second episode of the series, I’m sitting down with Lindsay Schlegel. Lindsay is a daughter of God who seeks to encourage, inspire, and lift others...
07.04.2022
A Letter to the Woman Ending a Friendship // Kiki Rocha
This summer, I’m focusing in on the topic of friendship with other women, and in this first episode of the series, I’m sitting down with Kiki Rocha. Kiki is a Catholic woman on a mission to rebuild culture. She is...
06.20.2022
A Letter to the Woman Worried She’s Not Doing This Whole Womanhood Thing Right // Lisa Cotter
Have you ever secretly (or not so secretly) wondered if you’re doing this whole womanhood thing right? Are you tired of the secular rhetoric that tries to tell you how you should act and who you should be? And are you wondering...
06.06.2022
A Letter to the Woman Wondering How To Find Time To Read // Marcie Stokman
“I like to read, but I have no idea what books to read.” “I sometimes pick up a self-help book or a spiritual book, but right now, reading other books with my schedule just feels selfish.” “I haven’t liked reading since I...
05.23.2022
A Letter to the Woman Discovering Her Feminine Genius at Work // Elise Crawford Gallagher
What does it mean to run a business as a Catholic woman? What does success look like? What does integration look like? How do you discover your gifts and talents and steward those well? In today’s episode, I sit down with...
05.09.2022
A Letter to the Woman Reclaiming Her Sense of Purpose // Julia Marie Hogan Werner, LCPC
Does it ever seem like life just kind of happens to you? You log onto Instagram or look around at the women in your small group or in the pew beside you at church and it just seems like everyone...
05.02.2022
A Letter to the Woman Wondering Why Friendship With Women Is So Complicated // Chloe Langr
Do you remember how simple it was to make and keep girlfriends when you were really young? All you had to do was wear the same pair of tennis shoes as a classmate or gal on the playground and man,...
04.25.2022
A Letter to the Woman Who Worries All the Time // Melissa Overmyer
I dress rehearse disaster on the regular. If I’m driving in the car with my girls and we’re having fun bopping along to Ellie Holcomb, it’s so easy for me to spiral into thinking “what if we get in a...
04.11.2022
A Letter to the Woman With Questions About Sex and Intimacy // Kimberly Hahn
Just a heads-up - today’s episode is a conversation about intimacy within marriage. There’s a lot of advice floating around out there for us as Catholic women today when it comes to our marriages and our motherhood. And I don’t know...
03.28.2022
A Letter to the Woman Who Wants to Fast Joyfully This Lent // Kristen Van Uden
There are three Lenten practices that Christ and the Church invite us to really lean into - prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. I don’t know about you, but I usually fall into two traps when it comes to fasting. Either I...
03.14.2022
A Letter to the Woman Interceding to Saint Joseph // Elizabeth Lev
This week, we’re celebrating the feast day of St. Joseph - and Pope Francis’ invitation to all of us in 2021 to “go to Joseph” is still ringing in our ears. But what can we learn from St. Joseph as...
02.28.2022
A Letter to the Woman Healing This Lent // Sr. Miriam James Heidland
Ready or not, here comes Lent. Some of us are READY for it. Some of us hate it. But most of us know that we’re supposed to be transformed by Lent. So we give up our alarm clocks, we take...
02.14.2022
A Letter to the Woman Overwhelmed by Wedding Planning // Mary Beth Giltner and Rebecca Martin
When you start planning a wedding, it’s crazy how the tiny to-dos you never knew were even a thing start to take over your life. The nitty-gritty of guest lists, venues, and the schedule of the big day itself stack...
01.31.2022
A Letter to the Woman Tired of Money Fights in Her Marriage // Jonathan and Amanda Teixeira
You’ve probably heard the statistic - nearly half of Americans (48%) who are married or living with their partner say that they argue with that person about MONEY. Most of those money fights are about spending habits, with one person...
01.17.2022
A Letter to the Woman Defining Herself by What She Does // Leah Jacobson
Have you ever wondered why we are so divided as women today? Then there’s feminism, but it doesn’t seem to be uniting us by addressing core problems we all face as women. In fact, in my experience, even conversations around...
01.03.2022
A Letter to the Woman Who Can’t Remember When She Showered Last // Leila Lawler
You wouldn’t think that something as simple as showering would be that big of a hurdle to jump for me. But until recently, I was letting showering just kind of happen to me. If the girls’ naptime coordinated on an...

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Letters to Women - Exploring the Feminine Genius episodes:

A Letter to the Mother Grieving Her Baby Who Died // Dr. Abigail Jorgensen

A Letter to the Mother Who Is Trying to Make It to Bedtime without Yelling // Johanna Seagren

A Letter to the Mother Wondering about Foster Care and Adoption

A Letter to the Mother Discerning Family Size with Her Spouse // Grace Stark

A Letter to the Mother Who Has a Love/Hate Relationship with Her Postpartum Body // Shelby Hirschman

Introducing Letters to Mothers

A Letters to Women Update

A Letter to the Woman Wondering How Theology of the Body Practically Applies to Her Life // Lillian Fallon

A Letter to the Woman Who Doesn’t Think She’s Beautiful // Melissa Johnson

A Letter to the Woman Tired of Being Told Who She Should Be // Mary Rose Somarriba

A Letter to the Woman Who Wants to Start Praying with (And For!) Her Spouse // Dr. Sarah Bartel

A Letter to the Woman Examining Her Day // Tsh Oxenreider

A Letter to the Woman Who Feels Alone // Sarah Swafford

A Letter to the Woman Who Feels Guilty about Creativity // Grace Babineau

A Letter to the Woman Who Loves Someone Struggling with Addiction// Keaton Douglas

A Letter to the Woman Creating a Rule of Life // Kimberly Hahn

A Letter to the Woman Who Never Gets through Her To-Do List //Thérèse Desilets

A Letter to the Woman Afraid to Admit That She’s Not Okay // Crystalina Evert

A Letter to the Woman Teaching the Faith While Running around with Littles // Jackie Angel

A Letter to the Woman Looking Forward to Farmer’s Markets // Alexandra Greeley

A Letter to the Woman Who Doesn’t Feel Like Praying a Rosary // Shannon Wendt

A Letter to the Woman Who Wasn’t Expecting Marriage To Be This Hard // Beth Sri

A Letter to the Woman Practicing Courage // KJ Ramsey

A Letter to the Woman Who Wants To Read Through the Bible in a Year // Meg Hunter-Kilmer

A Letter to the Woman Who Is an Adopted Daughter of God // Allison Gingras

A Letter to the Woman Examining Her Relationships // Nell O’Leary

A Letter to the Woman Drawn to God Through Beauty // Kate Marin

A Letter to the Woman Who Wants To Love the Lord With All Her Mind // Rachel Bulman

A Letter to the Woman Battling Pornography and Masturbation // Rachael Killackey

A Letter to the Woman Navigating the Grief of Child Loss// Kelly Breaux

A Letter to the Woman Who Has Nothing Left To Give // Emily Jaminet

A Letter to the Woman In A Season Where Friendship Seems Impossible // Lea-Anne Virnig

A Letter to the Woman Dreaming About the Beach // Noelle Mering

A Letter to the Woman Making Friends on the Internet // Elizabeth Vargas

A Letter to the Woman Seeking Christ in Her Friendships // Lindsay Schlegel

A Letter to the Woman Ending a Friendship // Kiki Rocha

A Letter to the Woman Worried She’s Not Doing This Whole Womanhood Thing Right // Lisa Cotter

A Letter to the Woman Wondering How To Find Time To Read // Marcie Stokman

A Letter to the Woman Discovering Her Feminine Genius at Work // Elise Crawford Gallagher

A Letter to the Woman Reclaiming Her Sense of Purpose // Julia Marie Hogan Werner, LCPC

A Letter to the Woman Wondering Why Friendship With Women Is So Complicated // Chloe Langr

A Letter to the Woman Who Worries All the Time // Melissa Overmyer

A Letter to the Woman With Questions About Sex and Intimacy // Kimberly Hahn

A Letter to the Woman Who Wants to Fast Joyfully This Lent // Kristen Van Uden

A Letter to the Woman Interceding to Saint Joseph // Elizabeth Lev

A Letter to the Woman Healing This Lent // Sr. Miriam James Heidland

A Letter to the Woman Overwhelmed by Wedding Planning // Mary Beth Giltner and Rebecca Martin

A Letter to the Woman Tired of Money Fights in Her Marriage // Jonathan and Amanda Teixeira

A Letter to the Woman Defining Herself by What She Does // Leah Jacobson

A Letter to the Woman Who Can’t Remember When She Showered Last // Leila Lawler