Thriving in the Space Between

What if preparing for marriage has less to do with finding the right person—and more to do with becoming someone who loves well today?

What if the life you're longing for begins with how you choose to love today?

In this episode, Ester Brooks shares how discovering Christ later in life transformed her understanding of love, marriage, forgiveness, and authentic femininity.  

Together, we explore how choosing sacrificial love in the present moment and growing closer to Christ can help you thrive in every season.   

Whether you're longing for marriage, navigating relationships, or simply trying to trust God in the waiting, this episode will inspire you to:  

• embrace the present moment,  
• cultivate gratitude, and  
• become the woman God is calling you to be, one act of love at a time.   

Ester's Links:

• Ester's website: fevaloryalegria.org/

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This week, we go behind the scenes with Maria interviewing Meghan, so you can get to know us better.

From friendships and dating to entrepreneurship, suffering, singleness, faith, and learning to trust God through unexpected seasons, Meghan shares the experiences that have shaped who she is today.

You'll hear honest stories about navigating a diagnosis, embracing vulnerability, finding joy in the present season, building meaningful friendships, and what it really looks like to hold hope while living in the "space between."

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If dating has left you discouraged, overwhelmed, or wondering if you'll ever meet the right person, this conversation offers a refreshing perspective. 

Professional Catholic matchmaker Madigan shares what she's learned from matching hundreds of singles, revealing: 

• why shared values matter more than perfect checklists, 
• how fear and unrealistic expectations can keep us stuck, and 
• what truly leads to lasting relationships. 

Whether you're actively dating or simply praying for your future spouse, this episode will challenge the way you think about love, discernment, and God's plan for marriage.

You can learn more about Madigan and the services she offers here.

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If you've been waiting for marriage for years and find yourself feeling discouraged, guarded, or stuck, this mini episode is for you. 

Maria speaks directly to women in their 30s and beyond about the subtle ways disappointment can harden our hearts and how choosing surrender instead of giving up opens the door to hope, healing, and joy. 

If you've been surviving instead of truly living, this conversation will gently challenge and encourage you to take one small step toward the freedom God has for you. 

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The first half of the year doesn't have to define the second.

If you're feeling stuck, discouraged, or ready for a fresh start, join us for our live Mid-Year Reset Workshop. Together, we'll help you release what's been weighing you down, trade overwhelm for clarity, and move into the second half of the year with hope, confidence, and purpose.

🗓️ Tuesday, July 21

📌 7pm CT / 8pm ET

🎥 Replay Available

🎟️ $47

👉🏼 I'm ready for a reset!

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✨ Turning Back Into a Girl — a free guide to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and show up with more presence.
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What if the healthiest relationship advice isn't about finding the right person—but becoming the right person?

In this powerful follow-up conversation, relationship coach Amy Davenport shares how the Six Intimacy Skills transformed her marriage and now help women cultivate healthier, more joyful relationships. 

Together, we discuss fear, control, vulnerability, respect, self-care, and what it really means to live from your God-given feminine identity.

Whether you're single, dating, engaged, or married, this episode will challenge your assumptions, encourage your heart, and offer practical steps toward deeper intimacy and lasting peace.

Listen to Amy's previous interview on the podcast: Season 2 Episode 91

Amy's Links:

• Website: Beloved Relationship Coaching
• Amy's interview on the Lila Rose show

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The first half of the year doesn't have to define the second.

If you're feeling stuck, discouraged, or ready for a fresh start, join us for our live Mid-Year Reset Workshop. Together, we'll help you release what's been weighing you down, trade overwhelm for clarity, and move into the second half of the year with hope, confidence, and purpose.

🗓️ Tuesday, July 21

📌 7pm CT / 8pm ET

🎥 Replay Available 

🎟️ $47 

👉🏼I'm ready for a reset! 

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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.
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What if the fears keeping you stuck aren't facts... but stories your mind has been rehearsing?

In this episode, Meghan shares a powerful perspective on fear and offers practical tools to break free from anxious thinking and return to the present moment with God.

In this mini episode, you'll discover:
- Why fear often feels true - even when it isn't
- The powerful question that can interrupt spiraling thoughts
- How to recognize the lies you've been believing
- A simple journaling exercise to help you process fear with God
- How to replace fear-based thinking with truth, hope, and trust in God's promises

If fear has been stealing your peace, this conversation will remind you that you don't have to believe every thought you think—and that God has grace for today, not your imagined future. 

💫

The first half of the year doesn't have to define the second.

If you're feeling stuck, discouraged, or ready for a fresh start, join us for our live Mid-Year Reset Workshop. Together, we'll help you release what's been weighing you down, trade overwhelm for clarity, and move into the second half of the year with hope, confidence, and purpose.

🗓️ Tuesday, July 21

📌 7pm CT / 8pm ET

🎥 Replay Available 

🎟️ $47 

👉🏼I'm ready for a reset! 

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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.
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What does it really mean to be a woman in today's world? 

In this conversation with Dr. Carrie Gress, we explore how modern culture has shaped the way women see themselves—and why so many women feel exhausted, disconnected, and unfulfilled despite achieving everything they were told would make them happy. 

We unpack what it means to reclaim authentic femininity—not through stereotypes or rigid roles, but by rediscovering the unique gifts God created women to bring into every relationship, workplace, and season of life.  

In this episode, you'll discover: 

•  Why so many women feel disconnected from their true identity 
•  How modern culture has distorted our understanding of femininity 
•  What spiritual motherhood looks like, even if you're single 
•  How to become a life-giving presence wherever God has placed you 
•  Practical steps to begin reclaiming the woman God created you to be 

Whether you're single, dating, married, or discerning your vocation, this conversation offers a hopeful vision of womanhood rooted in truth, freedom, and lasting joy. 

Get Carrie's book Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can't Be Fused with Christianity on theologyofhome.com or Sophia Institute Press.  

💫

The first half of the year doesn't have to define the second.

If you're feeling stuck, discouraged, or ready for a fresh start, join us for our live Mid-Year Reset Workshop. Together, we'll help you release what's been weighing you down, trade overwhelm for clarity, and move into the second half of the year with hope, confidence, and purpose.

🗓️ Tuesday, July 21

📌 7pm CT / 8pm ET

🎥 Replay Available 

🎟️ $47 

👉🏼I'm ready for a reset! 

✨✨✨

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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.
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What do you do when life doesn’t look the way you thought it would?

Whether you're navigating a move, a career change, a new relationship, an engagement, marriage, or simply another unexpected twist in your story, transitions can be both beautiful and deeply challenging.

In this conversation, Maria and Megan explore the grief, uncertainty, hope, and growth that often accompany life's transitions. They share why it's important to honor both what you're leaving behind and what you're stepping into, and how God often does His deepest work in the spaces we never planned for. 

In this episode, you'll learn: 

• Why transitions feel so hard (and why that's completely normal) 
• How to hold both grief and hope at the same time 
• The hidden gifts that can come through disappointment 
• Why your desires matter—even when you're afraid to name them 
• How to move through change with greater trust, curiosity, and peace 

If you're in a season of change and wondering if you're doing it "right," this episode is a gentle reminder: you're not failing, you're transitioning—and God is with you in every step of the journey.  

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💫 Doors to Thriving in the Space Between close tomorrow! 💫

If you've been journeying with us through the podcast, following along this week, or quietly wondering whether TIS might be your next step, we want you to know what an honor it would be to journey with you over the next six months. 🤍

Enrollment closes tomorrow, Saturday, June 27, at 10:00 PM CT, and we'd love to invite you to prayerfully discern whether this is your season.

👉 Learn more and join us here

✨Still haven't watched our FREE workshop?

Why Good Men and Good Women Keep Missing Each Other

If dating has felt confusing, exhausting, or discouraging, we think this workshop will encourage you.

Inside, we unpack some of the hidden dynamics that create confusion, frustration, and disconnection in modern dating—and explore what healthy, secure connection actually requires.

It's one of our favorite conversations we've had in a long time, and we'd love for you to experience it.

👉 Watch the free replay here

🤍 What is Thriving in the Space Between?

Thriving in the Space Between is our signature 6-month journey for Catholic and Christian women in their 20s–40s who desire to be seen, known, and accompanied while building healthier relationships with themselves, God, and men.

Inside TIS, women learn how to:

🤍 move out of survival mode and constant over-carrying

🤍 heal the deeper patterns underneath dating struggles

🤍 understand masculinity, femininity, attachment, emotions, and the nervous system through a faith-filled lens

🤍 build healthier, more grounded relationships

🤍 cultivate meaningful friendships and authentic sisterhood

🤍 slowly become more peaceful, hopeful, open, and fully alive in this season.

We would be so honored to welcome you into TIS. 💛

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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.
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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.
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What if someone reminded you of everything you're doing right—not because you've arrived, but because you're faithfully showing up?

This episode is a love letter to the single and dating woman navigating the space between longing and trust. Whether you're celebrating friends while carrying your own ache, saying yes to vulnerable conversations, learning healthy discernment, or simply choosing hope over cynicism, this conversation is for you.

If you've needed someone to look you in the eyes and say, "I see you. You're doing a beautiful job," press play.

If you've been waiting, hoping, healing, dating, grieving, growing, or simply trying to stay open when it would be easier to give up, you need to hear this. 

We're celebrating the quiet victories no one else sees and reminding you that your faithfulness, courage, and growth matter more than you know.

You are seen. You are deeply loved. And you are not walking this journey alone. 

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💫 Doors to Thriving in the Space Between are OPEN! 💫

If you've been journeying with us through the podcast lately and wondering whether TIS might be your next step, we'd love to invite you to prayerfully explore whether this could be your season. 🤍

👉 Learn more and join us here 

✨ Missed our LIVE workshop? Good news—you can still watch the replay!

Why Good Men and Good Women Keep Missing Each Other

If you've ever found yourself wondering...

Why does dating feel so confusing?
Why do good people keep missing each other?
Why does it sometimes feel so much harder than it should?

...this workshop is for you.

Inside, we unpack some of the hidden dynamics that create confusion, frustration, and disconnection in modern dating—and explore what healthy, secure connection actually requires.

Whether you're actively dating, taking a break, or simply longing to understand relationships more deeply, we think you'll walk away with fresh hope, practical insights, and a deeper understanding of yourself and men.

👉 Watch the free replay here

✨ Need a little space to discern?

If you're wondering whether Thriving in the Space Between is the right next step, we'd love to meet you for a complimentary 20-minute Clarity Call.

We won't pressure you, lovely. It's simply a space to share your story, ask questions, and prayerfully discern your next step.

We've had so many women leave these conversations feeling more peaceful, more grounded, and more confident about where God is leading them—and we'd love that for you, too. 🤍

👉 Book your complimentary Clarity Call:  https://calendly.com/theintentionalsingle/tisclaritycall?month=2026-06

🤍 What is Thriving in the Space Between?

Thriving in the Space Between is our signature 6-month journey for Catholic and Christian women in their 20s–40s who desire to be seen, known, and accompanied while building healthier relationships with themselves, God, and men.

Inside TIS, women learn how to:

🤍 move out of survival mode and constant over-carrying

🤍 heal the deeper patterns underneath dating struggles

🤍 understand masculinity, femininity, attachment, emotions, and the nervous system through a faith-filled lens

🤍 build healthier, more grounded relationships

🤍 cultivate meaningful friendships and authentic sisterhood

🤍 slowly become more peaceful, hopeful, open, and fully alive in this season.

What an honor it would be to journey with you over the next six months. 💛

✨✨✨

💛 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.
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🌐 Learn more about The Intentional Single
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In this bonus episode of Thriving in the Space Between, Maria interviews four women from the same TIS small group to talk about their journeys through dating, healing, hope, and friendship. 

Together, they share how shifting from self-criticism to self-compassion, learning to trust themselves, and finding authentic sisterhood changed the way they approach relationships and themselves.

From navigating heartbreak and attachment wounds to celebrating engagements, marriage, and new beginnings, these women offer honest encouragement for anyone who feels stuck, discouraged, or alone in the waiting.

If you've ever wondered whether you'll ever find your person, struggled with the thought that something is wrong with you, or longed for deeper community, this conversation is for you.

In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Letting go of the belief that you need to "fix" yourself
- Dating without losing yourself
- The power of being truly seen and known
- Finding hope when the journey feels long
- Why authentic sisterhood can change everything

A beautiful reminder that you are not alone and that there is hope in the space between. 💛

💫 Doors to Thriving in the Space Between are OPEN! 💫

If you've been listening to the podcast and wondering whether TIS might be your next step, we'd love to invite you to learn more. 🤍

🎉 Early Bird Ends Tuesday! Save $150 with code TIS150 through June 23 at 10:00 PM CT.

👉 Learn more and join us here 

✨ Join us LIVE this Tuesday, June 23 at 7:00 PM CT! (replay available) 

Why Good Men and Good Women Keep Missing Each Other

If you've ever found yourself thinking...

Why does dating feel so confusing?
Why do good people keep missing each other?
Why does it sometimes feel so much harder than it should?

...this free live workshop is for you.

We'll unpack some of the hidden dynamics that create confusion, frustration, and disconnection in modern dating—and explore what healthy, secure connection actually requires.

Whether you're actively dating, taking a break, or simply longing to understand relationships more deeply, we'd love to have you with us.

👉 Reserve your free seat here 

✨ Need a little space to discern?

If you're wondering whether Thriving in the Space Between is the right next step, we'd love to meet you for a complimentary 20-minute Clarity Call.

These aren't sales calls. They're simply a space to share your story, ask questions, and prayerfully discern your next step.

We've had so many women leave these conversations feeling more peaceful, more grounded, and more confidentabout where God is leading them—and we'd love that for you, too. 🤍

👉Book your complimentary Clarity Call here → 

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🤍 What is Thriving in the Space Between?

Thriving in the Space Between is our signature 6-month journey for Catholic and Christian women in their 20s–40s who desire to be seen, known, and accompanied while building healthier relationships with themselves, God, and men.

Inside TIS, women learn how to:

🤍 move out of survival mode and constant over-carrying

🤍 heal the deeper patterns underneath dating struggles

🤍 understand masculinity, femininity, attachment, emotions, and the nervous system through a faith-filled lens

🤍 build healthier, more grounded relationships

🤍 cultivate meaningful friendships and authentic sisterhood

🤍 and slowly become more peaceful, hopeful, open, and fully alive in this season.

What an honor it would be to journey with you over the next six months. 💛

✨✨✨

💛 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]