Universal Sisterhood Podcast

Weaning your children into adulthood often resembles weaning a baby - it requires repeated behaviours, some tears, many hard, often scary at times, sleepless nights, a lot of letting go and lots of trust in letting God be God.

Chantal Howard has done just that- come and listen to our conversation where we discuss allowing our children to exercise their freedom which will inevitably lead them to choices where they will fail, but how can we help them to fail forward?

Our children have freedom- it's not our job to be their redeemer- it's His, give them the tools and leave it up to Him.

Check out Chantal over @catholic.oil.mom and @aromarosary

In today's episode I chat with Eva Van Strijp, she talks about essential oils  and how they can boost our immune system, detox our homes and  bodies and the wonderful psychological effects they can have on our brains.

Where Eva Sources her oils.

https://www.youngliving.com/en_AU

Where I source my oils.

https://heirloombodycare.com.au

What brought me joy this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz5t7XTCxNE

When Teresa's son was less than 2 days old his mother noticed he was becoming less and less responsive and his body temperature was getting colder. Armed with mobile phone, his blue book and a pair of rosary beads she was rushed off to hospital.

Take a listen to her story of fighting for her son's life and accepting the cross she has been handed.

Teresa shows that the impact of the trauma we face is largely dependent on the way we respond to it.

Where do you turn we things feel out of control? In this episode Liv and I talk about what life looks like for us at the moment and how we are dealing with it. 

Escape this lockdown with a great read here are our picks.

Jessica's Picks

Hilly Billy Elegy- J.D Vance

Boy Swallows Universe- Trent Dolton

America Dirt- Jeanine Cummins

Where the Crawdads Sing- Delia Owens

Personal Prayer- A Guide to Receive the Father's Love- Fr Bonifice Hicks & Fr Thomas Aklin

He and I - Gabrielle Bossis

Clare's Picks-

Live your Life- Amanda Hicks

Cheaper by the Dozen- Ernistine Gilbreth

Call the Midwife- Jennifer Worth

Is it just Me? Miranda Hart

The Word Is Murder- Anthony Horowitz

My Sister's the Saints- Colleen Carrol Campbell.

Consecration to St Joseph- Fr Don Calloway.

Daphne's Picks

Peace Like a River- Leif Enger

A Bloody Habit- Eleanore Bourg Nicholson

My Family and Other Animals- Gerald Durrell

Dune- Frank Herbert

Searching For and Maintaining Peace- Jaques Phillippe

Jesus and the Jewish roots of Mary- Brant Pitre.

I chat with Gemma Howard. She is an teen mum to sweet little Jospehine.

Gemma graciously shares her story of finding herself pregnant in a toxic relationship at the age of 17.

She humbly seeks help from her family and finds forgiveness, mercy and the face of God in her sweet little Josephine.

Gemma is such a beautiful witness to what walking humbly looks like. We are all human, and with this we have freedom to choose right from wrong. We all make choices that are not in our best interest but that doesn't mean that God is not interested in us.

God is for us, no matter what we choose. Shame is what stops us from reaching out to him when we make choices that turn our hearts from Him. This is where the enemy wants to keep us. The enemy delights in knowing that we feel alone, hopeless and forgotten.

Come and take a listen to Gemma, as she unashamedly talks about being human, and becoming holy.

This song is such a beautiful song which captures the beauty of Gemma and the beauty in her story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHz0w-HG4iU

Great Are You Lord.

You give life, You are love

It's Your breath in our lungs

You give life, You are love

It's Your breath in our lungs

It's Your breath in our lungs

And all the earth will shout Your praise

And all the earth will shout Your praise

And all the earth will shout Your praise

It's Your breath in our lungs

It's Your breath in our lungs

In this episode I chat with Britt Fisk and mother of eight,  who discovered soon after the birth of her eighth baby, and the middle of the pandemic the she had breast cancer and her baby girl had a tethered spin and was to facing life threatening surgeries.

Britt displays great faith and trust in what God's plan is for her life and that of her family. She shows how grace and suffering play a role in our life.

https://shop.bellroadbeef.com/

He and I - Gabrielle Bossis.

" A breakdown in our common understanding of words leads to a society in chaos and frustration, inevitability miscommunicating and plagued by distrust. We become suspicious not only of eachother but ourselves and our ability to grasp reality. Rather than a fallible people struggling imperfectly toward a harmonious common good, we are a cacophony screaming across a chasm for recognition and moving through the world without a destination."

https://www.amazon.com/Awake-Not-Woke-Christian-Progressive/dp/1505118425

https://theologyofhome.com