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Catholic Mom Calm
by Sterling Jaquith
Calling all Catholic moms! Did you know it's possible to do this Catholic motherhood thing without losing your mind? Parenting these days is so hard because most of us are doing it without the tools we need. I'm Sterling Jaquith, a homeschool mom to six young kids, a business owner and I teach busy Catholic moms how to have more peace in their lives and homes.Each week on the Catholic Calm Mom podcast, I'll give you practical tools for calming yourself down, discerning what God wants you to do, and making rock-solid plans so life doesn't feel so overwhelming. If you're a Catholic mom, you're in the right place. Life is about to get so much better!And if you love the content of this podcast, check out all tools we offer at www.catholicmomcalm.com.
Episodes
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Why Self-Care Isn't Filling You Up
You took the bath, went for the walk, said the prayer... and you still feel depleted. Sterling Jaquith explains why: when you trash-talk yourself all day, every bit of self-care pours into a cup full of holes. Plus the day a new friend saw her unfinished basement, and she chose not to poke a…
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Mother Teresa's Shoes: Why Self-Care Isn't Selfish for Catholic Moms
Mother Teresa wore whatever shoes were left until her feet were deformed, and Catholic moms often share that story like it's a calling for all of us. Sterling Jaquith, Rita Johnson (Health and Hormones) and Denise Jelinek (Weight Loss with the Holy Spirit) talk honestly about why caring for...
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When God Doesn't Give You An Answer
I just got back from two weeks away (the Fulton Sheen conference in St. Louis and then France with my 15-year-old daughter) and I brought two big things with me to pray about in some very holy places. I asked for clarity every single day, and I kept thinking He'd surely talk to me on the 10-hour...
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Being On Time - I Just Start the Circus Earlier
Getting kids out the door is a banana circus. That's what I told my daughter in the driveway the other morning, after somebody forgot a lunch and we had to turn around and come back. It's going to be a circus no matter what I do, because children bring chaos and no amount of systems fixes that.…
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The Art of Saying No
Here's something I find fascinating. A lot of us are living a balanced life with a brain that's a hot mess in there, and so a life we're actually executing really well ends up feeling terrible. You got everybody fed and you made it to all the things on time, but your mind spent the whole day...
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Blanket of Peace
I said it kind of offhandedly on a coaching call. "I want to be a blanket of peace in my home." And the moms would not let it go, so I have been sitting with it ever since. Here is what I mean. You have the ability to take your own emotional state and blanket a whole room with it. You already do...
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How to Reach For Peace Faster
Anxiety never comes from the Lord. So the second I feel that tightness show up in my chest, I already know something true about myself. I am thinking about my life in a way that God does not want me to think about it. Period. Because if I were thinking about it the way He wants me to, I would be…
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Planning From Woundedness
I am team planning. I am team house systems. We teach it in the membership and it is the very first thing we tackle in the Catholic Mom Reset, because looking at your next 90 days and making a plan is genuinely a gift to your future self. But if you took all of it away tomorrow, dropped me in a...
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Transitioning from Summer to Fall
"People love change. They just hate transition." I heard Matthew Kelly teach that years ago and I think about it every single August. Because right now I'm getting a hundred emails from the school, two of my boys walked out today in socks with giant holes in the heels, and there's a lunchbox in...
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Managing Your Thoughts About School So You Don't Lose Your Mind
Almost everything you believe about your kids' schooling is an opinion, not a fact — and most of those opinions are quietly manufacturing stress in your body. In this episode, I walk you through why your feelings about school come from your thinking, how I choose school for my six kids with...
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How I Use AI (And How My Company Does)
The internet is very loud about AI right now, so I want to tell you exactly where I stand in July of 2026, both personally and as a company, so you can start forming your own opinion. For the most part I'm team AI. I also think it's going to create some genuinely scary things in our society, the...
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'90s Seattle, Grunge, and the New Elle Woods Show
It's Friday night, I'm home alone, and I'm recording a completely ridiculous episode. No coaching, no reframe, just me wanting to talk to someone about episode one of the new Elle Woods show on Amazon Prime. My husband took the kids to the beach, I opened Prime, and this little show whisked me...
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Enjoying Your Daily Life (No Matter What Season You're In)
I just got back from driving six kids and two dogs (including an eight-week-old puppy) from northern Idaho to northern Wisconsin, and the trip left me with a takeaway I didn't expect. I am so in love with my ordinary, day-to-day life. Watching cousins become friends and swimming and puppy chaos…
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Why Your Window of Tolerance Shrinks in Summer
It usually hits right about now. You started summer with high hopes, pushed through the chaotic first couple of weeks, and now you're yelling more, feeling stressed, and wondering what happened to the magical season you pictured. Sterling Jaquith says it's not because you lack a plan. It's your...
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Summer Jealousy
Sterling Jaquith caught herself feeling a very particular brand of summer jealousy. Friends whose parents are stable enough, healthy enough, and trusted enough to take the grandkids for a week or two. And watching that feeling rise was a perfect window into something we all do: we never question...
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Our Love/Hate Relationship with Summer
We're handed a script that summer is supposed to be fun and relaxing, beach days and popsicles and bucket lists. Then the fantasy meets the reality of little kids off their routine, eating sugar, tracking sand everywhere, and a lot of moms find themselves feeling something they didn't expect:...
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Vacationing With Kids
_*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> Every summer it happens. You pack up the little kids, drive to the beach or the grandparents, and somewhere around day three in an unfamiliar Airbnb with no blackout curtains and a toddler who won't sleep, you wonder why you thought this would be fun.…
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How to Solve Any Problem
_*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> It's a wild claim, and Sterling Jaquith makes it anyway. After asking her email list what they're struggling with right now, she read more than 200 responses, and reading every single one she kept thinking the same thing: oh, I could help her feel so much...
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Do You Actually Want Your Life To Get Better?
We all say we want our lives to be better. But what if most of us don't actually want to do the one thing that would make it better? This episode is the mirror-moment question, plus a summer update on closing loops, a 30-second way to make decisions, a new puppy, and the letter that changed how…
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Handling It... When Life is Anything But Simple
Six kids home for summer, a pilgrimage to France, a schooling decision on a deadline, and a Goodwill trip that produced an accidental gel bead gun. Sterling Jaquith walks through what's actually on her plate right now and shows the move that keeps her calm in the middle of it: stop trying to...
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Good Mom Summer
⛱️ Fun & Simple Summer: https://catholicmomcalm.com/fun-simple-summer 😎 Good Mom Summer: https://catholicmomcalm.com/good-mom-summer 🥰 Catholic Finishing School: https://catholicfinishingschool.com/ I'm a good mom. (And so are you. We're going to practice that all summer.) Sterling had a light...
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Fun & Simple Summer
A Fun and Simple Summer (How to Decide Right Now What Kind of Summer You're Going to Have) Grab FREE Fun & Simple Summer Here: https://catholicmomcalm.com/fun-simple-summer You've seen "analog summer" all over the internet — but Sterling's going with fun and simple. Because when you choose...
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Being Okay with an Uncertain Future
What are you doing with your life? (The answer is simpler than you think.) Sterling's 15 and 12-year-old came to her in genuine distress. They didn't know if they were going to be nuns or moms, and their brains were convinced that figuring out the future was the key to feeling settled today.…
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Overwhelmed Mom
"The melancholy side of me just isn't having it." A mom wrote in with paragraphs of feelings — the wounds work, the hormones, the hard days, the confusion about why she still can't seem to get on top of it all. Sterling read every word. And then she said something that might surprise you. In this...
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Tight Budget, Then Surprise Gift
He spent $1,500 on her for Mother's Day. She felt terrible. A mom wrote in with a situation that sounds simple on the surface — her husband surprised her with an expensive gift she'd actually been wanting. So why did it feel so bad? In this episode, Sterling breaks down exactly why a generous…
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Things Are Weird Right Now
Something feels off right now — and you're not imagining it. In this unplanned episode, Sterling sits down to say out loud what so many moms are feeling but don't have language for: it is genuinely weird to be raising kids right now. In this episode: Why so many of us feel unsettled but can't...
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A Mindful Mother's Day
You get to decide how Mother's Day goes. All of it. In this episode, Sterling gets honest about why Mother's Day feels so loaded — and why no amount of flowers, brunch, or Pandora bracelets will fix the real problem. In this episode: Why your family can't give you what you actually want on…
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Let Them Be Wrong About You (And Find Peace)
Do you struggle when someone believes something about you that isn't true? Do you feel the need to correct them… defend yourself… convince them… make them understand? One of the fastest ways to improve your relationships is this: Let them be wrong about you. In this episode, we talk about: Why we...
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Should You Have Another Baby?
Should you have another baby… or not? This is one of the most tender and weighty discernment questions a Catholic mom can face. If you're waking up thinking about another baby… If your heart feels pulled toward growing your family… Or if you feel confused because your husband isn't on the same...
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Your Husband Doesn't Want You To Homeschool
You want to homeschool your kids… but your husband isn't on board. Now what? This is one of the most emotionally charged decisions a Catholic mom can face — because underneath the schooling question is something deeper: "Am I doing a good job?" "Are my kids going to be okay?" "What if something…
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4 Ways We Block God's Voice
Are you struggling to hear God's voice? If you're trying to discern a decision — about your family, your home, your work, or something deeper — and you're not getting clarity, it may not be because God isn't speaking. It may be because something is blocking Him. In this episode, we talk about…
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Two Reasons You Snap at Your Kids
Are you constantly snapping at your kids… and then immediately thinking, "I'm a bad mom"? There are two thoughts that quietly destroy a Catholic mom's interior peace: "This shouldn't be happening." "I'm a bad mom." In this episode, we break down what I call the Mad Bad Mom model — how resistance...
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Calm Doesn't Mean Easy
Calming Down Won't Make Your Life Easy (The Cross Still Remains) | Catholic Mom Learning how to calm your nervous system is powerful. Breathing slowly. Stepping outside. Drinking water. Getting out of fight-or-flight. These tools matter. But they do not mean your life will suddenly become easy.…
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The Mental Load of Catholic Moms
The Mental Load of a Catholic Mom (And What You Can Let Go Of) The "mental load" of motherhood has been all over the internet lately — and often the conversation turns into women vs. men. But before we talk about who should share the load… We need to ask a harder question: Should you be carrying...
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Accepting The Day You're Given
Accepting the Day You're Given | Interior Peace for the Catholic Mom Part of having real interior peace as a Catholic mom comes from accepting your day the way it actually is — not the way you planned it. You wake up with a picture in your mind: Quiet morning prayer Kids waking at reasonable…
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Will Your Kids Resent Religion?
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You're Not a Lazy Mom
Are you telling yourself you're a lazy mom — even though you're exhausted, overwhelmed, and doing a million things every day? In this episode, I want to lovingly but firmly tell you the truth: You are not lazy. You are tired. And those are not the same thing. I've had six kids in eight years, and…
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Lent for Perfectionist Catholic Moms
Lent can feel especially heavy if you're a perfectionist Catholic mom. If you tend to measure your love for God by how well you perform — how well you pray, fast, or "do Lent" — this season can quietly increase anxiety instead of peace. In this video, I talk about: why Lent often feels harder for...
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If Your Husband is Negative
If your husband feels negative a lot, this video is for you. Maybe he complains about the kids. Maybe he points out what's wrong more than what's right. Maybe you leave conversations feeling heavy, irritated, or unseen. In this episode, I'm sharing a mindset shift that has helped so many Catholic...
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Lent for Tired Catholic Moms: A Gentle Plan
If you're a Catholic mom and Lent is coming up — and instead of feeling motivated you feel tired, overwhelmed, or quietly dreading it — this episode is for you. Sometimes Lent feels like too much not because we lack faith, but because we're already carrying a heavy cross. Pregnancy. Postpartum....
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When the Noise Drives You Crazy: Calm for Loud Homes
If the noise in your house is driving you crazy — the screaming, the banging, the constant sound of someone needing something — you are not broken. And you're definitely not a bad mom. As a Catholic mom, you were never meant to live in a constant stress state, even if your house is loud and…
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How to Stop Thinking You're a Bad Mom
If you've ever walked around all day thinking "I'm a bad mom" — this is for you. So many moms carry a constant, heavy belief that they're failing their kids. They replay mistakes. They focus on what they didn't do. They assume everyone else is doing motherhood better. And it's exhausting. In this...
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Finding Peace When You Can't Control Everything
Are you constantly worried — even about things you can't actually control? So many Catholic moms carry the weight of everything: their kids' futures, their husband's moods, the state of the world, whether dinner will be good enough. And the mental load just never stops. In this episode, I share a...
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Lenten Spiritual Attacks: Why Faith Feels Harder
As Lent approaches, many Catholic moms find that growing closer to God doesn't feel peaceful — it feels harder. Cravings intensify. Discouragement creeps in. Shame gets louder. Motivation fades. And you start wondering if you're doing something wrong. In this episode, I sit down with Denise…
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Your #1 Mission as a Catholic Mom: Interior Peace
What if the most important goal you could set as a Catholic mom isn't productivity, patience, or perfection — but interior peace? We only get one motherhood. One season with these kids. One life to live inside our homes. And yet so many moms are measuring success by how much they got done today...
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God Gives You No Grace for Imaginary Problems
Are you exhausted from worrying about things that haven't even happened yet? You lie awake at night running through worst-case scenarios. You plan for disasters that may never come. You carry the emotional weight of problems that don't even exist yet — and wonder why you're so tired all the time....
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Real Mom Life: Teens, Homeschool, and Winter Routines
I'm pulling back the curtain today and sharing what real mom life actually looks like for us right now — in the middle of winter, in the middle of the school year, in the middle of everything. Sometimes the most encouraging thing is just knowing you're not the only one figuring it out as you go.…
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Why You're Worrying About Things God Never Gave You
Are you constantly worried — even about things you can't actually control? You're carrying the emotional weight of your kids' futures, your marriage, your finances, the decisions you haven't even had to make yet. And you wonder why you feel so heavy all the time. In this episode, I share a simple...
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Stop Being So Mean to Yourself: You're a Good Mom
Most moms are walking around all day with a quiet — or not-so-quiet — thought running in the background: I'm a bad mom. You replay the moment you yelled. You fixate on the thing you forgot. You scroll through other moms' lives and assume they have it all figured out. And the voice in your head…
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2 Keys to Interior Peace Every Catholic Mom Needs
What if finding peace as a Catholic mom came down to just two things? Not a complicated spiritual formula. Not a 12-step program. Not waking up at 4 AM to pray before the kids get up (though if that works for you, great). Just two keys. In this episode, I break down the two essential keys to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Calling all Catholic moms! Did you know it's possible to do this Catholic motherhood thing without losing your mind? Parenting these days is so hard because most of us are doing it without the tools we need. I'm Sterling Jaquith, a homeschool mom to six young kids, a business owner and I teach busy Catholic moms how to have more peace in their lives and homes.Each week on the Catholic Calm Mom podcast, I'll give you practical tools for calming yourself down, discerning what God wants you to do, and making rock-solid plans so life doesn't feel so overwhelming. If you're a Catholic mom, you're in the right place. Life is about to get so much better!And if you love the content of this podcast, check out all tools we offer at www.catholicmomcalm.com.
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