Most moms are walking around all day with a quiet — or not-so-quiet — thought running in the background: I'm a bad mom.

You replay the moment you yelled. You fixate on the thing you forgot. You scroll through other moms' lives and assume they have it all figured out. And the voice in your head gets meaner and meaner.

In this episode, I gently but firmly challenge that inner critic — because mama, you would never talk to a friend the way you talk to yourself.

We talk about: * Why your inner critic is so loud (and where it actually comes from) * The difference between healthy conviction and destructive self-talk * How to replace harsh thoughts with truth — not toxic positivity * What Christ actually says about you as a mother

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If you're ready to stop beating yourself up and start treating yourself with the compassion Christ offers you, that's exactly the work we do inside Mary's Heart Martha's Order. Come be part of it at catholicmomcalm.com/marysheart