Thriving in the Space Between

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  • Hope & Intimacy with Jesus with Beth Davis | Episode 153

    What do you do when you deeply desire marriage, but your prayers haven’t been answered yet?

    In this beautiful conversation, Beth Davis shares honestly about her own journey of longing, disappointment, wrestling with God, and learning to trust Him more deeply. 

    We explore what it really means to: 

    • develop intimacy with Jesus, 
    • bring your unmet desires and even your anger to Him, 
    • surrender without shutting down your desires, and 
    • discover that hope is ultimately rooted in who God is—not simply in what we hope He will give us.

    If you’re tired of searching for the “right” formula for your vocation and longing for a deeper relationship with Jesus in the midst of the waiting, this episode is a powerful invitation to stay open, stay honest, and keep hoping.

    • Website - blessedisshe.net
    • Instagram - @blessedisshe__

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    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
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    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
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    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
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    1 hr 9 min
  • The Permission to Rest and Play | Mini Episode 152

    What if you’re feeling depleted not because you need to do more, but because you need to rest differently?

    In this mini episode, Maria explores why rest, play, and time in nature are essential to our physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual well-being. 

    She breaks down different kinds of rest and offers a simple question to help you recognize what you actually need: What kind of tired am I?

    If you’re constantly producing, carrying, striving, or feeling like you have to hold everything together, this episode is an invitation to slow down, receive, delight, and remember that you were made to be a human being—not a human doing.

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    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
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    28 min
  • Q&A with Sundaes with Mary | Bonus Episode 151

    What do you do when you’ve been single for a long time, dating feels exhausting, or fear says you’ll never find the relationship you desire?

    In this Q&A episode, Mary, Maria, and Meghan tackle some of the most vulnerable questions from women navigating singleness and dating. 

    From holding onto hope in your 30s and 40s to avoiding over-functioning in relationships, navigating body image and vulnerability, and knowing when to have difficult conversations about sexual purity. 

    If you’re single or dating and need a reminder that your story isn’t over, this conversation is for you.

    Mary's Links

    • YouTube - Sundaes with Mary
    • Instagram - @sundaeswithmary

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    💛 Stay connected to TIS 👉🏼 Stay in the know on all things TIS!

    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
    👉 Subscribe

    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
    📩 [email protected]

    47 min
  • What Makes Someone the Right Person to Marry? with Alison Armstrong - Part 2 | Episode 150

    What if chemistry isn’t enough to tell you whether someone is truly right for you?

    In Part 2 of our conversation with Alison Armstrong, we dive into boundaries, honest communication, attraction, discernment, and what to look for when you’re dating. 

    You’ll learn why expressing your needs early matters, how to recognize whether you and a potential partner are headed in the same direction, and why shared values and consistent action matter far more than simply feeling a strong connection. 

    If you want to date with greater clarity, wisdom, and confidence, this conversation is full of practical insights you won’t want to miss.

    Alison's Links:

    • The Understanding Women and Understanding Men Free Sample Page
    • The Queen's Code audiobook
    • Dating With Distinctions
    • In Sync with the Opposite Sex

    In addition, your viewers can receive the following products for FREE using the promo codes and instructions below:

    Thrive Your Life webinar

    • Go to: https://www.alisonarmstrong.com/products/thrive-life.html
    • Click on "FOR ME"
    • At checkout, enter promo code AlisonThrive

    Making Sense of Men: A Woman's Guide to a Lifetime of Love, Care & Attention from All Men

    • eBook, available on the Alison Armstrong Mobile App
    • Go to: https://www.alisonarmstrong.com/products/makingsense.html
    • Click on "FOR ME"
    • At checkout, enter promo code AlisonSense

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    💛 Stay connected to TIS 👉🏼 Stay in the know on all things TIS!

    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
    👉 Subscribe

    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
    📩 [email protected]

    52 min
  • The Hidden Ways Women Emasculate Men with Alison Armstrong - Part 1 | Episode 149

    What if some of the biggest challenges between men and women aren’t about bad intentions—but about instincts, patterns, and the ways we’ve learned to relate? 

    In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Alison Armstrong—who has spent more than 30 years studying men and relationships—shares eye-opening insights into emasculation, criticism, conflict, appreciation, complementary strengths, and why healthy partnership requires learning to stay on the same team.

    We also explore one of the most misunderstood aspects of femininity in modern dating: receptivity. 

    What does it actually mean to receive without becoming passive? How can you communicate your needs honestly, establish boundaries, and remain open to what someone has to offer? 

    If you long for healthier relationships with men and want to better understand how to bring out the best in yourself and others, this conversation is for you. 

    Alison's Links:

    • The Understanding Women and Understanding Men Free Sample Page
    • The Queen's Code audiobook
    • Dating With Distinctions
    • In Sync with the Opposite Sex

    In addition, your viewers can receive the following products for FREE using the promo codes and instructions below:

    Thrive Your Life webinar

    • Go to: https://www.alisonarmstrong.com/products/thrive-life.html
    • Click on "FOR ME"
    • At checkout, enter promo code AlisonThrive

    Making Sense of Men: A Woman's Guide to a Lifetime of Love, Care & Attention from All Men

    • eBook, available on the Alison Armstrong Mobile App
    • Go to: https://www.alisonarmstrong.com/products/makingsense.html
    • Click on "FOR ME"
    • At checkout, enter promo code AlisonSense

    ✨✨✨

    💛 Stay connected to TIS 👉🏼 Stay in the know on all things TIS!

    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
    👉 Subscribe

    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
    📩 [email protected]

    1 hr 1 min
  • Your Relationships Right Now Matter More Than You Think | Mini Episode 148

    What if your life isn’t on hold while you wait for marriage?

    In this mini episode, Meghan invites single women to stop treating their current relationships as placeholders or preparation for “real life.” 

    The people God has placed in your life today are opportunities for real love, intimacy, growth, forgiveness, communication, boundaries, and connection—right now.

    You’ll be encouraged to reflect on the relationship skills you’re already practicing, including vulnerability, repair after conflict, healthy boundaries, receiving love, and loving others without trying to control them. 

    Most importantly, this episode is a reminder that you are not a wife-in-training and your life is not a waiting room. You are a whole woman made to love and be loved today.

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    💛 Stay connected to TIS 👉🏼 Stay in the know on all things TIS!

    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
    👉 Subscribe

    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
    📩 [email protected]

    31 min
  • You Deserve a Good Man: Self-Worth, Boundaries & the Courage to Walk Away | Episode 147

    Are you staying in a dating relationship because you're afraid that if you walk away, there won't be anyone else? Or struggling to speak up when a man's words, choices, or values cross a line?

    In this episode, Maria and Megan talk honestly about self-worth, boundaries, non-negotiables, and the fear of scarcity in dating. 

    You'll be encouraged to recognize that you don't have to compromise your values or dignity to keep a relationship—and that sometimes the most loving thing you can do for yourself and the other person is to speak the truth and walk away.

    Most importantly, this is an invitation to stop grasping for an outcome and start trusting the Father who wants good things for you. 

    You are worthy of being loved, respected, and pursued by a good man—and you don't have to make it happen on your timeline.

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    💛 Stay connected to TIS 👉🏼 Stay in the know on all things TIS!

    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
    👉 Subscribe

    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
    📩 [email protected]

    26 min
  • How to Recognize a Good Man: Character, Growth & Virtue with Chris Chapman | Episode 146

    What if the man you’re dating doesn’t have everything figured out yet ... but he is growing?

    In this conversation, Chris Chapman brings decades of experience as a husband, father, teacher, and Catholic man to the often-confusing questions surrounding dating, masculinity, and relationships. 

    Chris shares what women should actually look for in a man while offering a refreshing perspective on why we shouldn’t expect a “ready-made” man.

    You’ll also hear his thoughts on masculinity, pornography, dating with marriage in mind, the influence women can have on men, and why life, faith, and relationships are often much messier than we imagined.

    Most importantly, this conversation is filled with hope: God can work through our mistakes, our messy stories, and the places where we still have growing to do.

    • Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)

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    💛 Stay connected to TIS 👉🏼 Stay in the know on all things TIS!

    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
    👉 Subscribe

    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
    📩 [email protected]

    1 hr 19 min
  • Healing your Inner Child: Where Faith, Body & Emotions Meet with Brya Hanan | Episode 145

    What if the reactions, fears, and relationship patterns you struggle with today are connected to parts of your story that were never fully healed?

    In this powerful conversation, Brya Hanan unpacks inner child work, IFS/parts work, and somatic healing through a deeply Catholic lens. 

    She explains:

    • why our bodies can hold memories and emotions that our minds have pushed aside, 
    • how old wounds can shape our attachment and dating patterns, and 
    • why healing means learning to feel safe within ourselves. 

    Brya also shares her practical “Five A’s” framework to help you slow down, listen to what’s happening within you, and bring those experiences to Christ.

    This episode is an invitation to move beyond simply knowing that God is good in your head and begin experiencing His love, safety, tenderness, and presence in your whole self.

    Brya's links:

    • Websites - bryahananlmft.com and catholicinnerchildwork.com
    • Instagram - @catholicinnerchildwork
    • Brya's book on Ave Maria Press

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    💛 Stay connected to TIS 👉🏼 Stay in the know on all things TIS!

    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
    👉 Subscribe

    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
    📩 [email protected]

    1 hr 13 min
  • Behind the Coach: Getting to Know Maria | Episode 144

    Have you ever wondered about the story behind one of the voices of Thriving in the Space Between? 

    In this episode, Meghan turns the tables and interviews Maria Spears Mumaugh, uncovering the experiences that shaped her heart for coaching and ministry.  

    From growing up with five brothers to navigating a long season of singleness, embracing God's unexpected timing, and finding joy in marriage, Maria shares the lessons that transformed her life and the hope she wants every woman to know.  

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    💛 Stay connected to TIS 👉🏼 Stay in the know on all things TIS!

    Want to go deeper? Our 3 most-loved workshops are always available—practical, healing, and Christ-centered.
    👉🏼 [Explore the workshops]

    If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head or in “go mode” in life or in dating, we made something for you 🤍

    ✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
    👉 Get the guide

    🌸 Cycle Syncing with Flo Living
    Track your cycle + support your body’s rhythms with recipes, workouts, and insights.
    Use code TIS for your first month FREE.

    🌿 Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom (Free Newsletter)
    Faith + nervous system support + life-giving resources—delivered every other week.
    👉 Subscribe

    🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
    📩 [email protected]

    51 min

About Thriving in the Space Between

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Thriving in the Space Between is a place for Catholic single and dating gals to be seen, known, loved on, and journeyed with.  We know you’re tired of feeling…

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