This week on Nourished to Bloom, we're stepping into a season that so many of us experience, but few of us talk about openly: middle motherhood. It's that in-between chapter when our children are growing more independent, our days feel quieter, and suddenly we find ourselves asking the big questions again: Who am I? What am I meant to do?
I share a personal story about my daughter as she starts middle school—how she struggled with her identity, and how I watched her journey remind me of our own transitions as women. From young adulthood to marriage, career choices, and motherhood, each season challenges us to rediscover ourselves, sometimes in ways that feel uncomfortable—but often full of possibility.
In this episode, we explore together: ✨ How to recognize the difference between worldly pressure and the Holy Spirit's gentle promptings ✨ Navigating the restlessness and identity shifts of middle motherhood ✨ How coaching rooted in faith can help us step forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose ✨ Living integrated wellness—mind, body, and spirit—that sets a foundation for our kids and families
If you've ever felt caught between gratitude and longing, this episode encourages us to pause, reflect, and move forward in God's timing.
🎧 Listen now and join us as we uncover how middle motherhood can become a sacred season of discovery—where we grow into the women God created us to be.
💌 Ready to explore coaching? Email me at kara@karatrochta.com to talk about how we can uncover your unique gifts, discern your next steps, and step confidently into this season of your life.
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Do you ever find yourself stuck in that position between
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gratitude and guilt? Like
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you tell yourself, I should just feel happy. I have everything I've
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prayed for, everything I've wanted.
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And yet there's still that feeling of restlessness,
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of like, I want to do more. And then you feel
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guilty about it, right? It's that. That feeling of being caught between
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gratitude for what you have and this quiet longing for something more.
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And that's what this episode is really going to help you explore.
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Because I think sometimes that that tension or that tug that we
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feel is so natural and we guilt
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ourselves into believing that we shouldn't
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desire that more or we shouldn't explore what that more
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might be be? And what if that. That
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tug is something that you shouldn't push away?
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Because what if it's actually an invitation from God Himself
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for you to become more of the woman
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that he invited you to be, that he created you
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to be, and he's just asking you to explore
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what that more might be. Welcome to
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the Nourish to Bloom podcast where your faith meets your health.
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I'm your host, Kara Trachta, a registered dietitian and certified
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Catholic coach, and I'm here to help you cultivate a deeper connection with your
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body, your spirit, and the nourishment that sustains them both.
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In a world filled with noise and confusion about food,
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health and body image, this podcast offers truth and healing from
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a Christ centered perspective. Together, we'll untangle the deep
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roots of diet culture and and discover what it means to truly
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care for ourselves through joyful nourishment of mind,
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body and soul. We're here to dive into the transformative power of
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intuitive eating coupled with the rich teachings of our Christian faith.
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With every episode, I'll be cheering you on, offering insights,
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inspiration and practical tools to help you heal your
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relationship with food and embrace the beauty of your body
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as a temple of the Holy Spirit. With confidence and
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courage that can only be found in Christ. Join
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me as we journey together towards a more holistic approach to wellness, one
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that honors the wisdom of your body as God's creation, the
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teachings of our faith, and the unique purpose you're called to fulfill.
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You were made to bloom, to come into
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full beauty and health in order to bear good fruit for the Lord with
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your life. So if you're ready to nourish your body, feed your soul
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and bloom into the best version of yourself, then you're in the right place.
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And I'm so happy you're here. Welcome to Nourish
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to Bloom, where every Day is a sacred invitation to
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thrive. So last night, I was in
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the middle of preteen drama with my daughter. It's
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quite interesting. I really don't remember being this
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emotional as a preteen. My mom would probably say different,
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but my goodness, it all started because
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I just. I'm not saying her room has to be, like,
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perfectly spotless because y', all, by no means am I the,
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like, most organized, tidiest person, but I feel like
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I have this battle over and over and over,
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weekend, week out of, can you
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just clean your room? Can you just. Can you just pick it up? Or, like,
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can you at least pick up the dirty clothes in your bathroom? And
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then it turns into this full on. I'm sorry
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I'm not as perfect as you and y'. All.
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It's hard. I'm sure that maybe you've experienced this too.
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It comes with this territory, this. This period,
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this transition of. Of motherhood, right? And as
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I sat there and I saw her yesterday, it was really this.
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This calling out from, like, the depth of
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her soul, because what she told me was, I don't even know who
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I am anymore. I have been trying to spend this whole year figuring
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out who I am. And I kind of had to
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validate that for her because she just moved into middle school.
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And it's. It's different, right? And if I think about this and I look at
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this through the. The. Through her perspective, it is
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so different. And if I look back on life and how
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things change for a woman and all the transitions that we feel, because there are
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a lot of them, I feel like middle school is one
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of those that has really set the stage for so many
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of us and the struggles that we find ourselves facing.
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Because you're kind of, like, still sheltered in elementary, you're kind
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of considered
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maybe still small, and then you go to middle school, and
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it's like the world decides to
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just come at you, right? We. We start
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to see
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different personalities develop. We start to see that comparison
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start to creep into our lives of, well, what does so and so have?
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What is so and so wearing? What are they doing? We feel
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that pressure to try to keep up. And if we think about it, I think
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most of us could look back in our lives and. And that really kind of
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started around middle school for a lot of us, maybe high school
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for some of us, too. But it was just a really interesting
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concept to. To explore, and I thought that it fit so well
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with what we're talking about here on the podcast. And this idea
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of. Of Wellness and what it means to be well
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and. And. And healthy and holy mind,
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body and soul. And
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we talked about this last week and kind of the transition of the
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podcast to really look at this broader perspective
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of wellness from this Catholic lens. And it's really about where
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we're looking at. We're looking at our faith, we're looking at our body,
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we're looking at our purpose, and then the mission
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and who God created us to be and how they all have to work together
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in harmony for us to really be a whole
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person, to be a healthy and whole person. And
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I feel like it's worth exploring just kind of some of these transitions,
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and then I think a transition that I
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have most recently gone through and how that really changed a lot
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for me and how I want to kind of share that
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with you in hopes that it just sheds some light on
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some stuff for you that maybe you're dealing with. But like I said, we go
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through these transitions of you
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elementary to middle school, and then, you know, middle school. You're trying to figure out,
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you know, who your friends are, who you are in. In this space. And then
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you go to high school, and it's like you're doing it all over again. And
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then you go to college, and that just opens up, you know, maybe something completely
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different because maybe you're moving away from home.
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You're, you know, kind of really and truly independent.
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You're an adult. You have to make adult decisions.
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And then, you know, you. You're trying to
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figure out, you know, what could you possibly want to do for the rest of
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your life from a career perspective. And maybe you're navigating
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relationships, you're discerning marriage, you're discerning your vocation, and
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there's all these things that happen. And then you graduate college, and maybe you
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move again to someplace else for a job. And you're trying to navigate
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a job or you're getting married, and you're trying to navigate
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how to start building a life with somebody else. And then you get to
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this point point where you have kids, and that changes everything,
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because once you become a mom, like, you can't un. Become a mom. And so
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then everything that you do is, you know, through the
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lens of. Of your motherhood and who you want to be as a
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mom and how you make all these pieces fit. I was talking to a
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client today, and she's kind of in that overwhelm, and she's like, I just don't
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know how to make the Marian Martha, you know,
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coexist and I think that's what we can all really agree on in
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motherhood is how, how are we doing that? But
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then, like, you, you have kids and they are in that toddler phase and they're,
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they're, they're really needy. We know this, right?
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And then you hit this other transition and, and I think nobody
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really tells us in motherhood about this transition. It's like we,
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we become moms. And then the next time we kind of hear about this is
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like, we're. When you become an empty nester. But there's really kind of like this
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first empty nester situation that happens
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that nobody really talks about. And I experienced this a
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few years ago when my youngest went to kindergarten. And it was
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this, this point in life where
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it's like, your kids are in school and you start
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to wonder, what do I, what do I do with this kind of free time
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that I have? Like, you don't have a ton of free time. You have between
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the hours of, you know, 8 and 3 when they're in and you're
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like, maybe you start to feel this tug of like, wanting to do something
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more. You start to wonder more about, you know, who am
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I? Because maybe you have experienced a little bit of loss of who you are
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as you've entered motherhood, right? And it's like you're trying to explore
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who you are in this new phase, but nobody talks about it. And
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when I was in it, it was this point of like, wow,
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this is a really interesting place to be. And thankfully, when
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I entered it, I was already in coaching. I
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was already working with someone around
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mindset, and I had already started wanting to, you
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know, build this practice. And it was amazing how
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much easier this phase of motherhood was,
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was to transition. Because what I had learned in coaching was
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really these foundational things of who I was, like, my
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identity. Kind of what we talked about last week, about how so many of
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us struggle because we don't know our true identity.
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And so we're this big transition that I
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think many of us find ourselves in is what I call, you know, middle motherhood.
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And it's a season where it can shake our identity, but I think
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it also can really awaken us to understanding
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our divine purpose if we take the right steps in
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this transition. And I think it's so important,
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um, because I think that it's, it, it becomes
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foundational for us. Right? I look back and I think about if I
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would have known more of who I
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am from this foundational
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divine God perspective, like
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that deep Rooted identity in Christ. When I was
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my daughter's age, things probably would have looked a little
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bit different for me going through these different transitions in life.
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I. I don't think that it would have shaken me quite as much.
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Right. And so with every new chapter, we find
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ourselves asking these same questions over and over again. Who am I
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now? What's next? What is God calling me to?
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But if we do that work to really discover our identity,
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these questions really aren't signs of confusion, but
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they're really signs of becoming. We can look at these trans
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as invitation invitations to pause and
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reflect and realign our hearts with
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who created us, to really understand
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and use them as opportunities for him to continue to
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reveal, to continue to form us and shape us
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into the woman that he wants us to be. I hear
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this in a talk this past week about there's no
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retirement in the kingdom of God. And it was
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something that struck me, right? It's like this,
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this idea that it's not like you get to this point in life and like
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you're who God, you're like you're complete, right? That's,
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that's not how this works, right. A quote that I've said a lot of times
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is, God's plan for us takes a lifetime. And I think that
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we need to really embrace that idea
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and really foster a growth mindset
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and be able to embrace that idea of that there
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is no retirement in the kingdom of God, that we are
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being challenged, that we are being called
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to create this lifestyle
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that is Christ centered. And there's no point where you, you stop
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doing that, right? When we think of retirement, maybe we've had a career and you
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get to a retirement, you stop going to work, you
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stop doing that career. And that is not
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how our faith works. That's not how.
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That's not how what God created us to do, right? We're not
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complete until we're complete in Him.
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And so getting back to this idea of transitions, because I know I went kind
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of off on a tangent, but I told you in this whole transition
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that I was going to speak more from the heart and be less scripted.
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But like, if we can get back to this middle motherhood is one of those,
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those times, one of those transitions that we can
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really embrace and allow the Lord to
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reveal more of who he wants us to become.
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And middle motherhood, like I said, it's this season when your kids are growing up,
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maybe they're all in school, maybe you have one in middle school or high school
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even. And it's like for the first time in years, you have this
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little bit of breathing room. And yet
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that space can feel really unsettling. It can lead to thoughts of
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like, well, I should be happy. You know, I've had everything
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I have ever wanted, I've ever prayed for. I have a family. I have stability.
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I have routines. But you might find yourself that deep down, there's this
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restlessness. And it's almost like you're being pulled in. In
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two directions. It's
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between this life that you've built and kind of
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questioning what's next, Lord, what is next for me?
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And it's like you can go back to where you were before
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you became a mom, because now everything that you do
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is shaped within that vocation of motherhood. But you
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also can't clearly see what lies ahead. And
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I think this restlessness can really come from two different places. And
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the first one is that it's from the world.
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Because the world really tries to tell us what we need
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to have it all, that we need to be the perfect mom, the
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supportive wife, the fit woman, the ambitious professional, the one who
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makes homemade meals, who volunteers at school, and somehow never shows
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a wrinkle. That's that pressure that
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leaves us feeling like we're never enough.
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It's fueled by fear and this fear of falling
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behind or losing our identity, of not being seen or
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valued. But if I
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had to challenge you, if you're into this. This phase of
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motherhood, the middle motherhood, and you're feeling, like, this kind of desire or this
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tug or this longing I want
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to challenge you, to really think about, could this be from the Holy Spirit?
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Because it might feel different. It might not feel, like,
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pressure, but instead it's just this gentle tug. It's like
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this holy curiosity. It's like there's this. This whisper,
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this little thing on your heart that no matter how you try to ignore it,
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it keeps coming back. And it's almost saying, like, there's
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something more. I want you to do something more.
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And maybe it's not something, you know, louder or
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busier, but maybe it's just something deeper.
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And kind of the way that we can know the difference between these two is,
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like, when that prompting comes from the world, it really brings about this
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anxiety and this. This fear.
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And it's like this. It's really kind of
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fueled by, like, comparison and this desire of, like, trying to
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keep up, right? Of trying to meet the world's expectations.
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Whereas when we have these, you know, these little
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tugs on our heart when it comes from. From God,
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it brings about peace and like this, this
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holy anticipation and this sense of like
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purpose, of like this is the next thing that I'm being called for.
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And that's why mother middle motherhood is this beautiful sacred
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opportunity to rediscover who God created you to be.
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And it's really not about completely reinventing
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yourself, but it's really about kind of a
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rediscovery and a remembering and
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an expansion of learning who you are, of
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who the woman God designed you to be
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before the world tried to tell you who you should be.
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And I think this benefits and fits in beautifully with this Catholic
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vision of wellness that we talked about last week. Because living well
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in this Catholic sense isn't just about, you
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know, wellness in the sense of how the world sees it, of, you know, this
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is what you're eating, this is how you're moving your body, this is your physical
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well being. But it's really again about living integrated
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mind, body and spirit. And that all of these are aligned
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towards God's mission for your life. And when we live out of
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this place of wholeness, we're no longer chasing satisfaction from
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achievements or external approval. Instead, it's really
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about finding this deep peace and knowing that we are
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exactly where we're meant to be or that
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we're courageously exploring,
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curiously stepping toward what God is calling us to,
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to next. And I want to talk about that for just a second
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because I think so many of us, we find ourselves in this
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transition, in this phase of really
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discerning and trying to understand what the Lord is calling us to. And I
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think we get it in our heads that the next thing has to be
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the forever thing. And I want to challenge that.
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The next thing that you do, the next thing that the Lord may be calling
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you to, might not be the forever thing. I
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talked about this with a client this morning. She's in kind of this
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transition with her, her work and
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she has this opportunity
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to become an entrepreneur, but she has three young
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children and she's like, you know, I've kind of always wanted to be
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the entrepreneur, to have my own business, but
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in this season of life, I don't know how I would do that. It would
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me. It would mean me giving up all of my time
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to do the marketing, to do all these entrepreneurial things. And my
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family would come at the cost of that. And I said,
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that's okay. The entrepreneur thing, owning your own business may
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still be the dream or the desire, but
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that doesn't mean that it's the next thing. Because the Next thing doesn't have
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to be the forever thing. Maybe the next thing is the step that
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you need to take before you get to the forever
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thing. Maybe there's something that needs to be learned in the next step before
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you get to the forever thing, right? That this journey
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is really about the Lord forming us and preparing us
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constantly for a lifetime to become the woman
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that he created us to be, the, the woman
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that is meant for eternity with Him.
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And that is a forever thing. That is a lifetime plan. It's
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a daily practice and, and formation
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of continuously becoming that woman.
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And so if you find yourself in this season of middle motherhood and
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you, you're wondering what's next, you're wondering
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who you are, I want to encourage you to just to pause
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because this is going to look different for every woman,
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right? For some women, this season of middle
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motherhood, you're feeling this. I should be doing more. I, I
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like, I, I need to be doing more. And you're feeling this pressure from the
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world. But what this season and what God may actually
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be intending for you is learning to just find
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joy and fulfillment and contentment right where you
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are. That God has you right where you are as a
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wife and as a mother, and realizing that this
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vocation is holy and meaningful even in the unseen,
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ordinary moments. That God wants you to be
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faithful as a wife and a mother right where you are.
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And that he is not actually calling you to
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something new, but it's the world that's been putting pressure on
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you that you should be doing something different.
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But the Lord wants you to
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learn joy and commitment right where you are.
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Well, for other women out there, it is a time
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of exploring, of dreaming with God about what comes next.
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And maybe he is stirring something new, a ministry, a creative
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pursuit, a way to serve beyond your home. And you're
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beginning to sense that your heart is ready to take that next
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step. Either way, discernment is the key
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because we really don't want to act from that worldly pressure,
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but we also don't want to ignore the Spirit's prompting.
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And that difference can be found in peace, not perfection.
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And I think this is where, if you find yourself in this
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transition and this transition of middle motherhood, but
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really any transition in life, I think this is where coaching can make
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such a difference for you. I know that it made a huge difference for me.
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It allowed me to create some deep roots,
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to create this deep rooted identity and to
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make decisions to live my life from this
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identity, from my worth, instead
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of feeling like I needed to follow the pursuits
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of the world. And so this is why I
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created this coaching practice. Because I, I've
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seen so many women get to this, this point of middle motherhood, and they feel
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so lost. They feel like they don't know who they are.
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And what I think coaching can help them do is
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one either find that contentment and that peace and, and
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feeling confident that the Lord has them right where they. They he wants them
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to be, or it is about walking along,
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along and exploring and dreaming with these women to
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discern what God has for them next. And
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that's. That's what it is. It's about helping women in this middle motherhood pause
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and listen to uncover what it is that God is speaking into
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their hearts to see where fear or
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other obstacles might be holding you back and to help
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you gain clarity and confidence to follow wherever he is
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leading you to. Because it's really not about
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chasing this better life. It's really about
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aligning your life, the
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things that you were doing, your lifestyle, with God's divine design.
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And when you can do that, everything starts to feel more peaceful and
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purposeful. Your choices, your
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habits, your relationships, they start reflecting your true identity
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and as that beloved daughter of God.
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And that's where you will operate from. You will operate from
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knowing that you are a beloved daughter of God. And that's how you're going to
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show up differently. That's that Catholic wellness in action.
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It's integrated living. It's rooted in prayer and
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discernment and the freedom to live as the woman God created you to be.
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And I think that this is so important for our children. I
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think that we need to do this work for ourselves.
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And it's honestly why I feel so blessed to, to have
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done the work on myself, because it made having this conversation
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with my daughter who was crying in our foyer last night
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about how she doesn't know who she is,
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because it allowed me to help
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her begin to understand
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that the things that I, that I tell her, it's not that
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she is failing in any way, but it'll. It's like
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giving her an insight into her own life and to show
00:25:09
her where the enemy is trying to sabotage her.
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And it's helping her be able
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to move and
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operate and work from the identity of
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knowing that she is a child of God.
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Because that's the beautiful thing in it, is that God's design for your life is
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completely unique and that the world is going to always
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offer you these formulas, the perfect routine, the next diet, the next goal.
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But operating from Knowing that you are
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a child of God is offering something so much more personal.
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It's this individualized divine plan
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that is made specifically for you, discovered
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through relationship, not striving.
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And that when you begin to understand your God given identity, your
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gifts, your temperament, your passions, you begin to live with
00:26:08
integrity and intention. You stop looking
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to others to tell you who you should be. And you start aligning your life
00:26:15
with who God has already made you to be.
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And that's when you start to feel fulfilled again. Not because you've achieved
00:26:24
more, but because you're living in your true vocation.
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And our kids need this. Our kids need us to be role
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models at home. There are so many
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role models that are celebrities or influencers or athletes.
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And our kids need to see parents
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and moms fully living who
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God created them to be and to model that for them.
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And we need it more now than ever,
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right? And so when you, when you do this work and when you
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live from this place of alignment, you're going to notice those fruits, you're going to
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feel more virtuous and grounded, your marriage and your family life
00:27:08
is going to grow stronger. You're going to experience less
00:27:11
restlessness and more contentment. And you'll be able
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to model for your children what it looks like to
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live a life for Christ with
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integrity and purpose and faith. And
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that's how generations change.
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Not by doing more, but by living a truer life.
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And that is what we each need. And
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we, we need to do this not only for ourselves, not only to continue
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to become and grow and form into
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that woman that is complete and
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ready for eternity, but also to really help our children
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with that too. So if you're in
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this middle motherhood season or any transition, and you
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feel that quiet tug, that holy curiosity,
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I really want to encourage you to get curious to
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dare to dream with God. He gave you this beautiful gift
00:28:11
of your imagination and we got to stop using it to imagine the
00:28:15
worst. And so I want you to imagine what's possible with him.
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Ask him to show you who you're becoming and how he wants to use this
00:28:23
season to shape your next chapter.
00:28:28
These transition periods, you're not lost,
00:28:31
you're just simply being invited to grow. It's making
00:28:35
space for the Lord to come in. And in God's timing, in this
00:28:39
season of middle motherhood, it might just become that most
00:28:43
beautiful and transformative chapter in your story.
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And so if today's episode spoke to your heart or you know,
00:28:51
another woman or man mom who is in middle
00:28:54
motherhood, who is feeling all the things that we talked about. Please
00:28:58
share this episode with a friend who's in that same season.
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And if you'd like to explore what coaching could look like for you,
00:29:06
what it means to have an individualized
00:29:10
plan and approach that's going to help you find that peace
00:29:14
and that purpose and that clarity, I'd love to connect with you.
00:29:18
You can simply send me an email. It's
00:29:20
karaharatrochta.com and we can set up some time to
00:29:24
really talk about this, what this vision looks like for you.
00:29:29
The Lord needs you to embrace who you are in this
00:29:33
chapter, to live fully alive, body, mind and soul,
00:29:37
and completely anchored in Him. Remember beauty
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held as a seed, beauty shared as the flower. It is your time.
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Time to bloom. Thanks again for joining me here on the podcast.
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I hope you have a beautiful and blessed week and we will talk soon.
00:29:52
Bye.