The Discerning Mother

By Brigid Tebaldi

The Discerning Mother is the podcast where we navigate the beautiful, messy, and holy journey of motherhood with mind, body, and soul fully aligned with God’s design. Your host is Brigid Tebaldi, a mo... more

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The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.

The Discerning Mother episodes:

September 02, 2025#31 | You're Wanting More Kids, But Feeling Afraid?
Do you long for another baby, but feel paralyzed by fear, past trauma, or the thought of going through labor again? I've been there and in this episode, I break down why fear after birth trauma is normal and how it doesn’t have to control your future.
I’ll share:
Why your fear is your body’s alarm system, not a reflection of weakness.
How to discern the voice of God vs. fear in family planning.
Practical steps to calm your body, process trauma, and reclaim peace.
How support and guidance can help you step forward with clarity and confidence.
If you’ve been longing for another child but feel stuck, this episode is for you. Your story isn’t over and the first step toward peace starts here.
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
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8min
August 26, 2025#30 | The Modern Catholic Woman's Guide to Healing: Life Lessons with Therapist Marnee
Join us for this conversation with Marnee, licensed therapist and author of "Conversations for the Modern Catholic Woman." In this episode, we explore the intersection of faith, mental health, and modern womanhood.
What We Discuss:
Navigating motherhood while maintaining personal identity
Integrating faith and professional therapy practice
Healing from trauma through both spiritual and clinical lenses
The unique challenges facing modern Catholic women
Practical tools for emotional and spiritual wellness
Finding balance between tradition and contemporary life
Resources Mentioned:
Book: "Conversations for the Modern Catholic Woman" by Marnee Weisbrod
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
Connect with Marnee
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41min
August 19, 2025#29 | Birth After the Last One Wrecked You: A New Hope for Traumatic Birth Recovery
In this episode, Brigid introduces her upcoming free training "Birth After the Last One Wrecked You" - a comprehensive program designed for women who experienced traumatic births and are afraid to have another baby. She shares her personal journey from traumatic early births to healing, empowering experiences.
Be sure to join the live training to learn:
How traumatic birth experiences can wreck you physically, emotionally, and spiritually
Why your nervous system goes into overdrive after trauma
The role of the subconscious mind in perpetuating fear and limiting beliefs
Understanding fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses
How nervous system dysregulation blocks access to intuition
The critical role of the nervous system in birth (cervix, pelvic floor, brain function)
Practical tools for getting out of nervous system overdrive
Setting yourself up for success before conception
Four key pillars: Sleep, Nutrition, Rest (not what you think!), and Mindset
Practical steps that work even with multiple children at home
Understanding what actually happens during birth
How to navigate conflicting desires (wanting home birth but feeling scared)
Setting yourself up for birth success after previous trauma
How birth experiences directly impact breastfeeding success
The link between birth trauma and postpartum anxiety/depression
Understanding the "beautiful symphony" of birth hormones and what happens when it's disrupted
Hope for healing: it's not foregone and can be fixed

Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
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10min
August 12, 2025#28 | What No One Tells You About Grief and How God Meets You There
In this conversation, JoBeth Evans shares her journey through infertility, adoption, and the devastating loss of her husband to brain cancer. Now a certified grief recovery specialist, JoBeth walks alongside others in their own valleys, offering both professional insight and the compassionate understanding that only comes from lived experience.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
Why grief is not linear and how to honor the process.
The role of faith in navigating deep sorrow.
Common misconceptions about “moving on.”
How to practically and spiritually support a grieving friend or family member.
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi

Connect with JoBeth
Facebook
Instagram
TikTok
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38min
August 05, 2025#27 | The Power of Surrender - Even though it's SO hard
In this short and powerful episode, Brigid shares reflections from her recent retreat at the farm, Restoring Her. The theme that emerged so clearly throughout the weekend was surrender not as weakness, but as the sacred design of the feminine. From birth to motherhood to healing, we explore how learning to surrender to God is not just important, but necessary.
What You’ll Hear:
Why surrender is essential in birth and motherhood
How trauma makes surrender feel unsafe and how to heal it
What happened at the retreat that transformed how women show up in their lives
A call to reimagine surrender as strength, not failure
What it looks like to let God re-mother you
Mentioned in this episode:
Join The Dwelling Place - a healing community for women who are ready to feel safe, loved, and whole again.
Apply to work with Brigid 1:1- space for deep healing, birth trauma integration, and nervous system restoration.
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
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7min
July 29, 2025#26 | Why Vacation Feels Easy and What Changes When You Come Home
Ever notice how life on vacation feels lighter, more peaceful even easy? But then, you come home... and it’s like someone dropped 100 bricks on your chest.
In this episode, I unpack why that happens. It’s not just the laundry or the emails. It's something deeper. I share what's really going on in your nervous system, your environment, and your soul when you shift from rest back into the everyday and how to bring more of that vacation ease into your real life.
Plus, I’m sharing something special: On August 2, I’m hosting a sacred in-person gathering at our farm called Restoring Her. If this episode resonates with you, that event is where we go deeper.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
Why vacation feels like a reset (but doesn’t always last)
What’s missing at home and how to restore it
How to make your life feel more like a retreat, even in the chaos
A glimpse into the upcoming Restoring Her event
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
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7min
July 22, 2025#25 | When Wine Isn’t Working Anymore
Motherhood will change you and for many of us, that change cracks open what’s been hidden for too long, especially the things we used to numb.
In this episode, I sit down with Christy Osborne, sobriety coach and founder of Love Life Sober, to talk about what happens when a high-achieving woman realizes alcohol is no longer serving her. What comes next? Shame? Isolation? Or maybe… freedom?
We talk about:
The “mom wine” culture and why it’s so normalized (and dangerous)
How alcohol becomes a coping mechanism for deeper wounds
The journey from numbing to feeling
Faith, honesty, and taking radical responsibility for your healing
How healing isn’t just about quitting
Whether alcohol is part of your story or not, this conversation is about the universal experience of reaching for something to soothe our pain and the courage it takes to choose a different way.
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
Learn more about Christy: https://www.lovelifesober.co.uk/
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46min
July 15, 2025#24 | The Lie of the Strong Woman
In this episode, I unpack the cultural and spiritual lies that tell women they have to “do it all” to be worthy.
This one’s for you if:
You’re always the one people rely on
Rest makes you feel guilty
You’re scared to stop because you might fall apart
You’ve spiritualized burnout and called it holy
We talk about:
How trauma creates “high-functioning” women
The science behind the strong-woman survival response
Why Catholic culture sometimes confuses martyrdom with self-abandonment
And how to step into strength rooted in softness and surrender
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
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11min
July 08, 2025#23 | Your Symptoms Aren’t the Problem
In this episode, I invites you to stop treating your body like a malfunctioning machine and start honoring it as a wise, integrated part of your healing.
We talk about:
Why your symptoms are not random or meaningless
How trauma rewires the brain and body
What Catholicism says about the body-soul connection
How to decode the signals your body is sending you
Why true healing isn’t about control it’s about restoration
This is for the woman who’s tried everything and still feels stuck.Maybe it’s not that you’re broken. Maybe it’s that you’ve never been taught how to listen.
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
...more
11min
July 01, 2025#22 | Rest Isn’t Lazy: What True Restoration Looks Like in a World That Glorifies Burnout
Let’s be honest: Most of us don’t know how to rest. We crash. We scroll. We half-pray with one eye open. 😅
But, rest is not weakness - it’s warfare. FOR REAL. Hear me out.
It’s trust. It’s obedience. I’s a vital part of your healing.
In this episode, Brigid breaks open:
Why rest isn’t just a nap or a spa day
The spiritual and biological design behind restoration
How God models rest (and why we ignore it)
How burnout affects your hormones, your holiness, and your whole being
What it looks like to build rhythms of rest in real life
If you’ve been tired for too long, this one’s for you.
Connect with Brigid
www.loretowellness.com
Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for Catholic women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here
Take the FREE Quiz: What’s Your Birth Redemption Path? → [Link]
Instagram: @brigidtebaldi
...more
9min

FAQs about The Discerning Mother:

How many episodes does The Discerning Mother have?

The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.