Like A Mother with Katie McGrady

After years working in various ministries within the Church, Rachel Ullmann took a job in politics. Figuring out how to make this career switch, at a moment when she was thriving in ministry, was an exercise in discernment, trust, and faith. This episode is sponsored by Unbound, Unbound.org/MotherAn OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

As Sharon McMahon became painfully aware of how dramatically uninformed people were about basic principles of civics and government, she took to Instagram and began sharing facts. And it went viral. She became a sensation, and her friendly, approachable, informative style of sharing news, information, and holding space for hard conversations has garnered over 4 million followers on Instagram, launched an incredible podcast, and has made her “America’s government teacher.” And she’s done all that, with integrity and firmly planted in a desire to share truthfully, as a mother. https://www.sharonmcmahon.com/This episode is sponsored by  The Marriage Group, http://www.themarriagegroup.com/ and the University of Saint Francis, https://www.sf.edu/about/camps-and-community-programs/#camp7An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In the early days of motherhood, we think about to-do lists and what must happen to run a home and keep kids happy and healthy. In the later days of motherhood, we’re concerned more about the future our children will find and create for themselves. Heather Khym, author and co-host of the Abiding Together podcast shares how the only way any the phases of motherhood can go well is if we trust the Spirit and recognize that we’re forming future adults that hopefully love the Lord. For Show Notes: https://www.abidingtogetherpodcast.com/ This episode is supported by Unbound, https://www.Unbound.org/MotherAn OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Motherhood requires sacrifice, adaptability, patience, but perhaps most of all, healthy measures of hopefulness and humility. Designer, CEO of BeAHeart, and wife and mom, Erica Tighe Campbell, shares her story of sobriety, mental health diagnoses, passion for creative design, and the realization that humility and hope are the fuel for everything in motherhood.  https://beaheart.com/This episode is supported by National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.org and The Marriage Group, http://www.themarriagegroup.com/An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Over the course of a dozen episodes, Katie has heard how other moms have tackled various issues, handled significant (and mundane) moments, and listened to stories about mom-life. In today’s solo episode, she reflects on how curiosity is a virtue that’s incredibly helpful in day to day mothering.This episode is supported National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.orgAn OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

What happens when your marriage, and your motherhood, doesn’t look like you expected? Elieen Perez, a single mom of two young girls, shares her story of divorce, single motherhood, and finding joy, even in the moments that are unexpected and hard, and offers insights into how all joy is circumstantial, and something we’re called to embrace fully. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/franciseileenperez/Steubenville Adult Conferences: https://steubenvilleconferences.com/adult/ This episode is supported by the National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.organd 52 Sundays at www.52sundays.comAn OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Each of our kids has a unique, specific, beautiful particularity, and our job as moms is to help that grow. Haley Stewart, mom of four, wife of a whiskey distiller, and editor of Word on Fire Spark, a children’s imprint, is a mom who celebrates and invests in the unique beauty of her children, and she shares how we can embrace that journey with joy, patience, and an awareness of the eternal nature of the work we do, as moms. Twitter: https://twitter.com/HaleyCarrotsSubstack: https://haleystewart.substack.com/Word on Fire SPARK: https://books.wordonfire.org/sparkwaitlistThis episode is supported by National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.orgAn OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Motherhood is a lifetime lesson in detachment, a constant recognition that we only have so much control. Moms tend gardens where the Lord grows something remarkable, and religious sisters tend those gardens in beautiful, humble, and often unseen ways. Sister Josephine Garrett, a religious sister, mental health counselor, and author shares how she has learned how to hold her spiritual motherhood and spiritual children lightly, rather than grasp and clench with a spirit of control. Those lessons in holding lightly can benefit us all. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SJOSEPHINE_CSFNInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sr_josephine/This episode is supported by National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.orgAn OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

When loss seems to be the theme of your life, and when grief sits heavy in your heart, how do you pick up the pieces and not only carry on, but continue to create beautiful things? After years of infertility, a miscarriage, and then the death of her newborn twins, Laura K. Fanucci sought companionship with the Lord and began to create beautiful things as a result. This is her story. Check out Laura and her husband's book: Grieving Together: A Couple’s Journey through MiscarriageThis episode is supported by National Council of Catholic Women, www.nccw.orgAn OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

There’s a temptation to “declare absolutes” in motherhood. “I’ll never do that” or “I’ll always do this.” But those absolute statements don’t take the realities and nuance of life, and Elizabeth Nava’s experiences in discerning and making big decisions help shed light on how motherhood is all about adaptability, pivoting, and being willing to change.  An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Marriage is not a walk in the park, NFP does not mean nonstop sex (or no sex), and the Cross we carry as moms can be heavy. But all of that, even in its heaviness, can bring us to some sort of new life in Christ. Emily Frase, founder of FamBase, wanted to create space to have these hard conversations, and to be able to give herself space to feel big feelings about motherhood surprises and struggles, and she’s here to talk about all of it. Our ad partner for this week's episode is Seven Clues: A Catholic Treasure Hunt by Scott Hahn and Maura Roan McKeegan.An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

What happens when you look around your Church and realize something is missing? That representation is not there? You do something about it. At least, that’s what Sarah Ku did. She sought to build, rather than simply criticize. To create a ministry, and work on creating resources, to represent her Asian Catholic heritage, for herself, and her kids, and in the process, discovered something about herself, the way she parents, and what the Church needs most. An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Motherhood is full - full hands, full diapers, full fridges that hopefully lead to full tummies. In that fullness, a certain amount of juggling has to occur, and how the plates spin and the balls stay up in the air will look different for everyone. But, perhaps there are some ways to manage those full moments, and centralize the crazy so as to be fully joyful. Emily Stimpson Chapman joins us to share about her quick entry into motherhood after many years of waiting, and how she manages those full moments by embracing the fullness with trust, humility, and patience. An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Moms begin and end each day pondering what they will do and what they perhaps didn’t get done, and weigh the expectations against reality moment by moment. Elizabeth Foss, author, speaker, wife, and mom, shares how the years of raising many kids have helped her to both manage her expectations, navigate her giftedness, and come to a deeper understanding of her own sense of self through the lens of her motherhood.An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

The words “this is my body, given up for you” are said at every Mass, and are spoken by every mother, day in and day out, as we wipe and wean and walk with our children through the mess and grime and joy and delight of daily life. How a mother comes to understand this call to sacrifice and gift of self is perhaps the greatest spiritual journey she’ll ever undertake. An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Mom of 6, Rachel Bulman, reflects on the heavy weight of motherhood, in that we are planting seeds for eternity with the hearts and minds of our children, and how even in the midst of that weighty responsibility, we are called to be intimate with the Lord who loves us, so that we can better love others. An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

The ins and outs of motherhood must be rooted in Jesus and his love for us, and Sister Mary Grace Langrell of the Sisters of Life explores the idea that our motherhood, and living like moms in the day to day, is a refuge for a weary and tired world. An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Catholic mothers face: criticism, comparison, worries & fears they’ll fail, overwhelming responsibilities, and at times, perhaps even resentment. But, there is also a remarkable joy as one mothers, and one comes to understand what motherhood is (and isn’t), and that joy is best shared from honest, authentic, revealing conversations about successes, failures, and the ongoing experience of learning how to be a mom. This episode will introduce the trajectory of the podcast, and include a conversation with my own mom, a Catholic convert who raised us in the Church, faced struggles with infertility, and whose daughters are both still (very) Catholic.An OSV Podcasts original. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.