Have you ever felt like you're doing all the "right things" — taking care of your family, trying to take care of your body, showing up in your faith — yet deep down, you feel a little… lost?
Like somewhere between motherhood, routines, and responsibilities, you misplaced pieces of who God created you to be?
You're not alone.
In this episode, I'm opening my heart and sharing a stirring the Lord has been placing on me for months — a deepening of what wellness truly means as a Catholic woman.
In this episode we'll explore:
✨ What happens when we don't feel connected to our identity ✨ Why body peace starts with knowing who we are in Christ ✨ How God nudges us into new seasons — even when they feel scary ✨ The moment with her daughter that made her realize she had to say yes to God, too ✨ What's shifting on the podcast (and why it's so, so good)
This isn't a change in direction — it's an expansion into whole-person wellness: mind, body, and soul.
For the woman learning to make peace with food and the woman asking "Lord, what now?" — this space is for you.
If your heart feels stirred listening to this episode, you are seen. And you are being called — gently, lovingly — deeper into who you were made to be in Him.
Let's walk this together. 💛
💛 If this episode spoke to you, I'd love for you to share it with a friend who might need to hear it too. And if your heart is stirring, send me a message at kara@karatrochta.com — let's talk about what God is placing on your heart and how you can say yes to Him in this season.
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Have you ever had that feeling where you just feel like
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you're called to more, not more to do,
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but just be more of who
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God created you to be? Maybe it's
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that quiet feeling of Lord, I know there is something more you
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desire for me. Or maybe it's this tug that you're
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feeling just deep inside you
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for deeper peace, not just in your body, but
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in your identity, in your motherhood, in your purpose, in
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the way that you are living your life
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today. Y', all. I'm sharing something that the Lord has really
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been stirring in my heart, something that
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I think is going to reshape where the podcast is headed and
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how I've really been feeling this calling to walk with you
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in your journey towards peace, peace and wholeness and
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purpose. So if you are in that season
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of wanting to rediscover who God
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made you to be or grow deeper in the identity of who
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God made you to be, this is a new chapter and
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I think you're going to feel right at home in it.
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Welcome to the Nourish to Bloom podcast where your faith meets your
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health. I'm your host, Kara Trochta, a registered dietitian and
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certified Catholic coach, and I'm here to help you cultivate a deeper connection
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with your body, your spirit, and the nourishment that sustains them
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both. In a world filled with noise and.
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Confusion about food, health and body image, this podcast
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offers truth and healing from a Christ centered perspective.
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Together, we'll untangle the deep roots of diet culture and discover
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what it means to truly care for ourselves through joyful
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nourishment of mind, body and soul. We're here to dive into
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the transformative power of intuitive eating coupled with the rich teachings of our
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Christian faith. With every episode, I'll be cheering you. On,
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offering insights, inspiration and practical tools to help
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you heal your relationship with. Food and embrace the beauty
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of your. Body as a temple of the Holy Spirit with
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confidence and courage that can only be found in Christ.
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Join me as we journey together towards. A more holistic approach to wellness,
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one. That honors the wisdom of your body as God's creation,
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the teachings of our faith, and the unique purpose you're called to
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fulfill. You were made to bloom,
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to come into full beauty and health in order to bear good fruit
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for the Lord with your life. So if you're ready to nourish your body,
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feed your soul and bloom into the best version of yourself, then
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you're in the right place. And I'm so happy you're here.
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Welcome to Nourish to Bloom, where every day is a sacred
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invitation to thrive. Hey there. Welcome
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back to the Nourish to Bloom podcast. So happy to
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be spending some time here with you this week. And
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I'm going to start today with something that is
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brutally honest and a little bit vulnerable, if
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I'm being honest. So if you've been
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listening here the last few months, you know that I've been doing a lot of
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series on this show. And part of that was
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because I kind of felt like it would make things easier to figure out
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what to talk about every week on the podcast. And
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I think while they have been helpful and really, you know, full of
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good information, I will be really honest with
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you when I say I've been feeling a little disconnected from
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the content that I've been sharing. I feel like there's only
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so many five practical tools that
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you can use for anything, right? And I,
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like I said, it's not because I don't think that
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this series or the content isn't meaningful or it
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isn't needed. I believe in the message and what I'm
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sharing, but it's really because honestly, like, I felt like I was just kind
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of going through the motions a bit. Like, I didn't really,
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like, feel connected or
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moved. Right. There's been so many seasons on the podcast where
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I've shared what the Lord has been putting on my heart.
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Like, sometimes he gives those things to me last minute. I know I've shared that.
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Where it's like, it's Monday. I gotta record, and I have
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no idea what I'm going to say. And the Lord puts it in my
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lap right through scripture or through something I heard at Mass.
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And I love those messages. Like, I love them because I
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know that they are timely. Like, they're messages where I really
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feel the Holy Spirit move. Like, not just for me,
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but I pray for you, too. And
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I share this because lately
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I've really been in this internal battle,
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and I feel like the Lord has been stirring something in me again.
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And I have been resisting it
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because it feels new, it feels big,
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it feels scary. I have all these thoughts come up.
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Like my listeners are going to think I'm completely switching things up.
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What if this throws people off? But here's the truth.
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Like, I really don't think it will. I think
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that this is the natural evolution of
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the podcast. I feel like it's the natural evolution of.
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Of my coaching business. It's the natural evolution of where
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I really think the Lord is calling me
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to help women. And I think
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that you're ready for it. I think that the podcast is ready for the transition.
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And honestly, I, I think I am. I am too.
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It's going to be hard. I, I won't lie, it's going
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to feel uncomfortable. But I think that
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this is really where the Lord has been gently, and maybe sometimes not so
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gently, pushing me toward expanding the podcast and my
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coaching beyond just intuitive eating
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and physical wellness. So let me be
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clear. I'm not abandoning that work, never that.
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But this is really about a bigger deepening
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of this work, of, of
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what coaching work looks like. And I think, like, this is this
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evolution of rooting it in something that's even more foundational.
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Because here's what God has been showing me for
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the number of years that I have been coaching
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women on intuitive eating and helping them heal their relationship with
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their food and their body. The
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kind of, the commonality that I'm seeing is that
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so many of our struggles with food and
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our body, the struggles with confidence, the struggles
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with self worth, with decision making, with our
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purpose, they all trace back to this
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deeper problem. And that deeper problem is
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really not knowing who God created, created
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us to be. When we don't know our
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deep rooted identity, we start to chase the wrong solutions.
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And I say this because I did this for many, many years.
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We think that peace will come with a smaller body or if we
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have more control over situations, if our house is
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cleaner, or if we're doing life like someone else is doing it.
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But the real freedom, the real
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wellness comes when we know who we are in Christ,
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when we trust who he's calling us to become.
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And when we stop asking, how should I look? And really
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start asking, lord, who did you make me to be?
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And your identity, that God given identity is always going
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to lead you to wholeness, mind, body
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and soul. And y', all, that is real Catholic wellness. When
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we are looking at our wellness
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as a whole person, perspective, mind, body and soul,
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that it is integrated and that it is deeply
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rooted in our, in our identity.
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And, and I say this because God's really held up a mirror to me here
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lately. Recently, my daughter had a moment where
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she really wanted to give up on this dream that she's had since she was
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3 and that to be a charm, which is
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the high school dance team. And we were
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having this conversation after a really tough day after a
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dance clinic. And she really struggled with the
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choreography and keeping up. And she said, maybe I'm just not
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good enough. She actually told someone we saw that afternoon
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that she just didn't know if she wanted to do it anymore. And
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I saw this as a huge red flag because she has
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wanted this for so long. And she hit
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this vulnerable point and the enemy starts
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to make her doubt her ability.
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And I sat there telling her, look, you can let this be the moment
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you give up because it's hard, or instead you
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can see this as God revealing where you can grow.
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Maybe he's showing you this now, he's showing you your
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weaknesses or, you know, the, the things that you need to
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because he's wanting to prepare you for what's ahead.
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And y', all, I've replayed these words over
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and over and over again because it keeps hitting me like
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I am a hundred percent that pot calling the kettle black.
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Because God has really been nudging me in that same way. And I have been
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hesitating, I have been dragging my feet. I keep saying, lord, I don't
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know how, Lord, I don't know how to bring these things together.
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Like, guys, this has probably been a. Back and forth battle for well
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over a year. How I bring this, this
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desire, this passion that I have to help women
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really rediscover their identity to know what the Lord
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is calling them to and to, like, couple that with everything from
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intuitive eating and that food
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and body relationship. And like, it becomes just this thing
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that, like, I just stay frozen in fear. I have all these
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ideas that come and yet I never do anything.
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I just shrink back when what he's doing is trying to
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call me forward. And
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I will say, it's hard, it hurts. I hate being in this back and forth.
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I hate being in this internal battle of, like, what do I do
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when I really and truly know deep down that the Lord is calling me to
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pursue this, that he wants me to take and evolve my
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coaching to really help you with, with your identity
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and your passion and your purpose and your mission.
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And so again, he provides the things that I need
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and he. And he shows me. I mean, my prayer has been,
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lord, like, how, how am I going to do this? How do I take all
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these ideas? How, how am I going to execute this, Lord, is this going to
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lead to any clients? Like these, these fears and these, these
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thoughts just run rampant. And then if
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you fast forward to this morning, I was reading the mass readings for
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today and the first reading
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concluded with Romans, chapter 11, verse
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36, which goes for from
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him and through him, and for him are all
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things to God be glory forever. Amen.
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And y', all, I hear this at mass every time I go right the do
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doxology through him, with him and in him and the unity,
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right? Like, I hear this over and over, but it's so funny how
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it hits different, like, when you need to hear it different.
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And this morning, it hit different, and it just made it so
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clear from him.
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This is a calling from God. He is inviting
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me to step into this, to step
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into this evolution of the podcast and of coaching. It is literally
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like a gift tag that says to Kara for from God,
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right through him. He has been trying to
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get it through my thick skull that he's going to guide every
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step. He's going to navigate this, every
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word, every woman who needs this.
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And the crazy thing is, y', all, I have evidence of him working in this
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way in so many instances in the past, but I
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stopped myself from taking that step. But I know
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that when I take the step, he work, he works. He makes those
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things happen. But it's like, it's that collaboration, and
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it's. You know, there's a saint quote. I'm not
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gonna remember who it's from, but it's like,
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without us, you know, God cannot right. Like, with and
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without him, we cannot right. Like, it's. It's this collaboration,
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and then for him, this work, this expansion,
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this mission, like, this thing that I really. That he has
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prepared me for, that he has put me
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in this place to do this specific work. It is all
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for his glory. And that's the blueprint.
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And, y', all, it's not just the blueprint for me, but it's the blueprint for
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you, too, for whatever the struggle is in
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your life right now. It's from him, through
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Him. And for him, it's not complicated,
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and it's not overwhelming. It's just being
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obedient to the Lord. It's loving the Lord through our
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obedience. And so here's what this
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means for the podcast and coaching moving forward.
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The podcast isn't becoming something different. It's really just
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becoming something fuller. It's not
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me stepping away from what we have
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explored from a wellness perspective so far or
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from intuitive eating. It's just me
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deepening what wellness means. Because
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the more I do this work, the more I realize that so many of us
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think our struggles will just disappear if we can just lose the weight,
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if we can just fix our routines, if we can just finally get
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it together. We think that clarity and confidence
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and joy and fulfillment will come after we fix
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our bodies or fix our
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homes or, you know, just do whatever this
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influencer is doing. But really, that root
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of so much of our struggle is an identity struggle.
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Not knowing who God created us to be, not knowing
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what he's calling us to, not knowing how he sees
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us. And when we're unsure of who we are,
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we end up trying to borrow someone else's plan, someone
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else's life, someone else's measure of success.
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And it leaves us striving, exhausted and
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feeling like we're never enough.
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But when you know who you are, truly in
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Christ, everything is going to shift. You're going to
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show up differently, you're going to make decisions differently,
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you're going to take care of yourself differently. Not
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to earn any sort of worth or dignity because you already have
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it, but so you can fulfill that
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mission that only you were created for. In this moment
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in time, y', all, the Lord needs you to know who you are
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and needs you to step into your mission
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wholeheartedly, now more than ever.
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And that is that real beginning of Catholic wellness. A Christ
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centered identity is where that whole person health starts.
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Mind, body and soul. Who you are
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becomes your motivation. You're
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not motivated by shame or pressure, not the I
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shoulds, but you're motivated by I am
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his. And this is how I'm going to live my life,
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simply because of that. And so the
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podcast and my coaching are just expanding,
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expanding beyond only the physical. So this is for the woman
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struggling with food and body image, but it's also for the woman who's not
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sure what's next in life. For the mom who loves her family
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but feels like she's losing herself or feeling like she's called
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to something more. The woman who hears the Lord
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whispering, you are made for greater things.
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And she's asking, okay, Lord, what now,
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y'? All? Nourish to bloom and bloom.
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Wellness. This is wellness that sees the
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whole woman. Your soul, your
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dreams, your body, your purpose, your
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identity and helping you know that
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all of it matters, that all of it is connected because
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all of it belongs to him. And so
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I'm taking that step and I'm saying yes to
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serving you in that fuller way. We will still
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talk about wellness. We will still talk about intuitive eating and caring for
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your body in a holy and peaceful way. But we're also going to talk about
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identity, about purpose and calling dreams and holy
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confidence mental and spiritual well being,
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reclaiming joy and living as the woman God designed you to
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be. Because healing your relationship
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with food, it's powerful. I've experienced it. But y', all, it's
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just one part of God's vision for you.
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He wants Your whole heart, your whole life,
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your whole flourishing. So here's
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what I'm asking you to do.
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First, if you know of a woman who may not
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be needing to heal. Her relationship with food and her body.
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But you know a woman who is struggling with her identity or what the Lord
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is calling her to invite her to check out the podcast,
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simply share the podcast episode with her. 2.
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If you are feeling that tug, if you're sitting here listening and you're like,
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all right, yeah, carrot, like, I get what you're saying. This is what I
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need. And whether what you need is to find peace with food
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or clarity in your calling, I would love to be
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the person who walks that with you. So all you have to
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do is email me@karaharatrochta.com
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and all it is is a simple conversation to explore what God
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is asking of you in this moment. What are the things, the nudges that he's
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putting on your heart? And how can you find some
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clarity? How can you step into it with confidence
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and grace? I
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thank you so much for spending this time here with me. I thank you so
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much for letting me bear my soul. I cannot explain to
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you enough how much this type of work lights me
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up because I think it is so needed in our world. I
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think the more women who know their identity, who know what the Lord is
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calling them to, I can just see
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woman after woman boldly and confidently
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fully living their life for the Lord. And I want that for you.
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So, again, thank you for joining me here on the podcast. Just
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a little taste of how things are transitioning and growing
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deeper and expanding. So I hope you'll continue to tune in
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every week. And remember, beauty held is the seed, beauty
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shared is the flower. It is your time to bloom.
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I'll talk to you soon. Take care. Bye.