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The Discerning Mother
by Brigid Tebaldi
Welcome to The Discerning Mother, the podcast where building a thriving business and becoming a whole woman are not two different goals. Most wellness podcasts will tell you to regulate your nervous system. Most business podcasts will tell you to try another strategy.This one will tell you why those won’t work. This is where faith, health, and business strategy collide.Each week we talk about:How your nervous system is either building your business or quietly sabotaging itWhy rewiring your nervous system and identity unlocks what regulation never could Real strategy for scaling without burning the woman behind the brandWhat Catholic/Christian theology has to say about money, ambition, and becomingHow to have more without doing moreDoing it all while being a present, joyful, peaceful mother & 6 or 7 figure business ownerThis is not hustle culture with a rosary or prayers on top. This is the real work; the kind that changes what you are capable of in your business, your body, y
Episodes
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#90 | Why you're undercharging for your services or products
In this episode I get into why undercharging is never really a pricing problem, the two wounds tangled underneath it (the earning wound and the money-is-sinful lie), and why charging your worth actually puts more into the Kingdom, not less. JOIN THE MASTERCLASS Connect with Brigid...
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#89 | Why you feel competition when you should feel ambition
You're scrolling and see the perfect house or business and your chest goes tight, and then you feel guilty for feeling tight. In this episode I take the guilt off you and get into why comparison isn't jealousy, it's a wound wearing your God-given ambition like a mask. Why deleting the app never...
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#88 | Why Your Brain Won't Shut Off at Night
It's 11pm, you're exhausted, and your brain will not shut off. In this episode I get into why that's not a willpower problem, where your body learned that staying alert keeps you safe, why the melatonin and the mouth tape aren't strong enough to fix it, and what has to happen underneath before…
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#87 | You Say You Want Silence, so why does it feel so horrible?
You said the one thing you wanted was silence. So why, when you finally get it, does your skin crawl? In this episode I get into why the quiet feels so unsafe, where that got wired long before you had words for it, why "just meditate" keeps falling flat, and what it actually looks like to rest in...
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#86 | Anti-Hustle Q4
In this episode, I talk about how I am SO over the "hustle" of Q4. I want to step into the holidays *not sick*, present, and joyful. NOT stressed and tired. I am hosting a live workshop on Thursday where we are getting into: Why you hit the brakes right when it starts working (the launch you...
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#85 | Understanding Your Anxiety Doesn't Make It Go Away, But This Will
You can learn every principle of this for free, off any podcast, out of any book, and that is the exact reason none of it has worked on you. In this episode I get into why. JOIN THE MASTERCLASS Connect with Brigid www.loretowellness.com JOIN THE FREE TELEGRAM CHANNEL Instagram: @brigidtebaldi…
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#84 | You're a Successful Women so Why do You Feel Guilty Spending Money (Even When You Can Afford It)
You crossed six figures and you still put the $200 item back on the shelf because of that little voice in your gut that said not yet, or who do you think you are. In this episode I get into why that flinch has nothing to do with money and everything to do with a decision your body made a long…
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#83 | Why Money Stress Is Never Really About Money
If money is stressing you out, it's probably controlling you. In this episode, we talk about why your body treats an unexpected bill like a bear in the room, where that alarm first got wired (usually long before you had words for money), and how an old wounds grow up and start trying to control...
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#82 | Why You Can't Stop Controlling Everything
This episode isn't going to tell you to relax and let go. You've heard that, and it doesn't work. Instead we're getting underneath it: why you reach for control in the first place, what it's actually about (hint: it was never the launch or the supplements or your husband calling the plumber), and...
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#81 | How to Take Maternity Leave When You're Self-Employed and the Primary Caregiver
In this episode I get into why maternity leave for a business owner is never actually a logistics problem, what pregnancy/postpartum physiology taught me about why you cannot rest, and how a woman can be a working woman and the primary caregiver of her children without being consumed by either…
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#80 | Nothing Is Wasted
This episode is about showing your children why chasing their dreams is important and actually a way to glorify God. Connect with Brigid www.loretowellness.com JOIN THE FREE TELEGRAM CHANNEL Instagram: @brigidtebaldi Free Audio Training: Spiritual Somatic Rewiring Questions? DM me. I actually…
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#79 | You're Not Burned Out, You're Braced: Why Rest Isn't Fixing Your Exhaustion
In this episode, Brigid unpacks the difference between an empty cup and a body that is still holding its guard up, and why that difference is the reason nothing you have tried has worked. Burnout gets refilled with rest. Bracing does not, because a braced body is not worn out from doing too much,...
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#78 | The 7-Figure Mask
In this episode I walk through The 7-Figure Mask, the training I gave inside Judy Weber's She Sells Higher program. We talk about why successful women feel more trapped the bigger they grow, why strategy and rebrands keep wearing off, and the one thing underneath it all that actually changes the...
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#77 | Why Do I Get So Angry When My Husband Rests? (It's Not About the Couch)
You know it makes no sense to be mad when your hard-working husband lays down for ten minutes. So why does your body rage anyway? In this episode we trace that reaction back to something much deeper than the couch. We talk about the abandonment wound, why rest can feel dangerous to a woman whose...
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#76 | Stop Doing Kegels: What Your Pelvic Floor Is Trying to Tell You with Dr. Trina Winner
Eight months postpartum and you cannot sit through dinner without your tailbone screaming. Your OB shrugged when you asked about pelvic floor therapy and every wellness account on your feed is telling you to cold plunge, fast until noon, and do more kegels. In this episode I sit down with Dr.…
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#75 | You Know You're Beloved. So Why Are You Still Proving It?
"Own your belovedness." Own it because it already belongs to you. I heard Sarah Kroger sing about belovedness at the GIVEN Leadership Conference two weeks ago and I have not been able to stop thinking about it since. In this episode, I go deep on what the word beloved actually means, what an...
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#74 | "I Know That, I Don't Feel It": Why Knowing Your Worth Doesn't Stop the Overworking
"I know that. I don't feel it." That's what came out of my mouth, out loud, in front of strangers, in the middle of a small group at a leadership conference last week. I wasn't expecting to say it, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since, because it's the exact same gap I see in almost…
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#73 | Nervous System Regulation Is Not Enough: What High-Achieving Women Are Actually Missing
Brigid breaks down what nervous system regulation actually means versus what the wellnessworld is selling you, why female leaders stay stuck even when they are doingeverything right, and what changes in your body, your business, and your prayer lifewhen you finally heal at the root instead of...
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#72 | You Don't Have a Capacity Problem: Here's Your Actual Problem
Everyone is talking about capacity, but no one is talking about WHY your capacity looks the way it does and how to actually increase your capacity to hold more. Spoiler: doing more nervous system regulation work doesn't increase capacity. You HAVE to go deeper and once you do, everything shifts....
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#71 | When Your Business Becomes Your Coping Mechanism
We talk about what it actually looks like when your business becomes your primary coping mechanism, the specific costs it is creating in your home right now, why every tool and routine you have tried has only gone so deep, and what it looks like to build from wholeness instead of from wound. Plus…
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#70 | When Getting There Doesn't Fix It
Today I am talking about why the most driven, capable women I know cannot be present with their families even though they desperately want to be, why the revenue ceiling stops moving even when the strategy is solid, and what is actually underneath both of those things. This is not a time…
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#69 | Successful and Still Exhausted: Here's What Nobody Is Telling You
This episode is not about adding more. It is about what is underneath everything you have already built and why that is the only thing that actually moves the ceiling. We talk about why the 10pm emails, the repricing yourself on sales calls, and the launching before you have celebrated are not...
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#68 | What if Your Vitamin D Deficiency Isn't Actually a Deficiency? with Robin Stebbins
What if the Vitamin D deficiency your doctor flagged on your labs is not actually a deficiency at all? In this episode, Brigid sits down with Robin Stebbins, Registered Nurse, psychiatric and hospice care veteran, and founder of PurifyWithin, for a conversation that will make you rethink the...
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#67 | Why Your Nervous System Has Been Running Your Business and How to Heal It This Summer
Today we are talking about visibility, but not in the way you have heard it before. Not posting schedules. Not content strategies. Not accountability challenges. We are going underneath all of that to the real reason successful, called, equipped women keep going quiet in their businesses and why…
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#66 | Rethinking Wealth: A Catholic Perspective on Resources and Contentment
This episode will help you discover how the true meaning of wealth and how it extends beyond money and how understanding its origins can transform your relationship with resources, faith, and contentment. This episodes explores the spiritual, neurological, and practical aspects of wealth,...
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#65 | Why your nervous system regulation isn't working
So many women are relying on nervous system regulation they get through the day. By regulating, they're hoping that it will help their business grow and show up for their family differently. What most don't know is that nervous system regulation is just a Band-Aid if your subconscious has not…
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#64 | Why You Can't Sleep at Night Even When You're Exhausted
If you are doing all the right things and still waking up at 2am with your brain fully running, listen up! In this episode we cover: Why sleep is a safety problem, not a habit problem, and what that actually means for your body What is happening physiologically during that 2-3am wake window and…
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#63 | The "3-Hour Max Mom" & Here's What Your Child's Nervous System Has to Say About It
A well-known businesswoman went viral this week for calling herself a "3-hour max mom" and the comments called it brave. Almost no one stopped to ask what her children's nervous systems were recording. In this episode I am going into what the neuroscience of the mother-child bond actually tells…
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#62 | Your Strategy Is Not the Problem. Your Capacity Is.
You have a capacity problem and capacity is determined by what your nervous system believes it must do to be safe, loved, and enough. In this episode, we break down why overextension is a nervous system pattern, not a character flaw, and how a Time and Capacity Audit can help you finally see what...
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#61 | Why Surrender Feels Like Dying & What Holy Week Teaches Your Nervous System
Your nervous system is wired to survive, which means surrender, stillness, and identity change will always feel like a threat. In this Holy Week episode, we walk through Palm Sunday to Easter and connect the science of the stress response to the spiritual invitation of the Cross. Practical,...
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#60 | Nervous System Repair vs Nervous System Regulation
Nervous system regulation helps you get through the moment. Nervous system repair changes what your body believes is safe. In this episode, we explore why you can feel calm one day and triggered the next, and how lasting healing goes deeper than coping. Through both science and the wounds of…
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#59 | Where Are We Going From Here: Nervous System Repair and Business Success
Most women don't realize they're carrying subconscious stories that sabotage their nervous system and their lives. Brigid reveals how nervous system repair, not just regulation, is the game-changer for true inner safety and resilience. After years of helping women through birth trauma, Brigid...
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#58 | Why Women Say They Want Support, But Struggle to Receive It
Women everywhere say they want support. They want community, guidance, and someone to walk alongside them. Yet when support is actually offered, many hesitate. In this episode, I unpack why that happens. We talk about how modern motherhood quietly trained women to outsource their bodies, their...
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#57 | How Healing Reshaped My Work, Decisions, and Life: Emanuela's Client Story
In this episode, I am joined by a past client for a conversation about healing, identity, and motherhood. While our work began around birth trauma, the journey quickly revealed something much deeper. Patterns of pressure, urgency, exhaustion, and internal tension were shaping not only her…
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#56 | How to Get Your Baby to Sleep Without Cry-It-Out or Constant Anxiety
If you’ve ever found yourself Googling “how to get my baby to sleep” at 2 a.m., this episode is for you. In this conversation, I’m joined by Bernie Ranieri, founder of Snuggle & Sleep, to talk about baby sleep through a lens most parents are missing: faith, nervous system regulation, and the real...
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#55 | Scrupulosity, the Nervous System, and Why Fear Is Not the Voice of God
Scrupulosity is often treated as a spiritual problem alone. Pray more. Trust more. Stop overthinking. But, what if the issue is not a lack of faith at all? In this episode, Brigid explores scrupulosity through both a theological and biological lens, explaining why persistent moral fear, constant...
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#54 | The Reason God Waits Before Giving You More
Many of us are asking God for more, while quietly resenting what we already hold. In this episode, we explore why gratitude is not about saying thank you, but about being able to receive. Drawing from Scripture and the wisdom of the body, we talk about why God often works on our interior life...
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#53 | From Saints to Cycles: Rediscovering the Female Body in God’s Story
In this conversation with Christina Valenzuela, founder of Pearl & Thistle, we explore how the feminine body speaks sacred truth, how saints lived fully embodied lives, and how deep body literacy invites women into fuller understanding of themselves and God’s design. Christina brings her theology...
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#52 | Stop Asking “Is This God’s Will?” and Ask This Instead
Many faithful women feel stuck in discernment, endlessly asking, “Is this God’s will for my life?” and feeling anxious, paralyzed, or afraid of getting it wrong. In this episode of The Discerning Mother, Brigid reframes that question through Catholic theology, vocation, and nervous-system wisdom....
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#51 | How to Support Your Hormones Naturally: A Conversation About Women’s Health with Vanda Aubrey
In this episode, Brigid sits down with women’s health educator Vanda Aubrey to talk about what most women were never taught about their bodies. From cycle awareness to hormone balance, nutrition, and nervous system support, this conversation explores how women can stop fighting their bodies and...
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#50 | Why God Allows Hard Seasons: How Pain, Faith, and the Nervous System Shape Who You Become
Many women feel confused, anxious, or spiritually distant during seasons of stress, loss, or emotional overwhelm. In this episode, Brigid explains how God uses difficult experiences to reveal what is no longer true, strengthen your identity, and restore your sense of safety from the inside out....
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#49 | When Your Life Feels Urgent: Learning to Live From Identity Instead of Urgency
Many of us enter motherhood with a tender hope for who we will become. Calm. Present. Unrushed. Then the nights stretch long, the needs multiply, and the day begins to carry us instead of the other way around. Life turns urgent. The body stays alert. You fall into bed exhausted, yet still feel...
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#48 | Becoming Her in 2026: Nervous System Healing, Identity, and Living as the Woman God Had in Mind
This episode is for the thoughtful, faith-filled woman who is tired of hustling, striving, and living in stress mode. You want steadiness in your body, clarity in your identity, peace in your home, and a deeper trust in God. In this episode, we explore nervous system regulation, identity-based...
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#47 Stillness Is Not Sinful: Why Rest, Quiet, and Waiting Matter at Christmas and as We Enter 2026
At Christmas, the world slows just enough for many women to feel uneasy. Instead of peace, quiet can bring guilt, anxiety, and the pressure to plan, improve, or prepare for the new year. In this episode, I explore that stillness is not laziness, disobedience, or spiritual failure. This episode is...
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#46 | Why the Holidays Feel Harder After Motherhood (And What Your Nervous System Is Trying to Tell You)
The holidays have a way of exposing what we’ve been holding together by sheer force. If you’ve ever thought, “I should be enjoying this, but I’m exhausted, irritable, and counting the days until it’s over or the kids go to bed,” this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, I explore why so...
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#45 Loreto, Trauma, and the Woman Being Rebuilt: A Unique Approach to Healing Physiology and Identity
In this contemplative episode, Brigid explores the profound mystery of the Holy House of Loreto and what it reveals about the modern mother whose interior world has been shaken by birth trauma, medical intervention, chronic stress, or seasons of overwhelm. Drawing from Catholic theology,...
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#44 | When Doing It All Breaks You: The Hidden Stress Response Running Modern Motherhood
Motherhood exposes everything you once managed to outrun. Old wounds. Old patterns. Old beliefs about what you must do to be worthy, loved, or safe. In this conversation, I talk with my good friend, Dr. Amber Curtis, about the pressure women feel to hold everything together and the quiet collapse...
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#43 | The Neuroscience of Gratitude: How Thankfulness Heals Your Hormones, Your Nervous System, and Your Home
In this Thanksgiving episode, Brigid breaks down the surprising science behind gratitude and why it’s one of the most powerful tools for healing overwhelmed, exhausted women when it’s done the right way. Inside, you’ll learn: How gratitude changes your brain chemistry Why most moms can’t access...
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#42 | Why You Feel the Way You Feel: The Hidden Patterns Running Your Life
Motherhood didn’t damage you, but it did reveal the parts of you that have been carrying old biological conflicts, wounds, patterns, and beliefs that were never healed. In today’s episode, we talk about: why your body reacts the way it does how childhood patterns show up in birth and motherhood…
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#41 | When Fear Keeps You From Healing - Your Body Holds The Story
You're smiling, but you're not okay. You're snapping at your kids, second-guessing every decision, and feeling disconnected from your body and your faith. What if I told you that your birth trauma isn't just in your mind, but it's stored in your nervous system? In this episode, we're talking…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Discerning Mother, the podcast where building a thriving business and becoming a whole woman are not two different goals. Most wellness podcasts will tell you to regulate your nervous system. Most business podcasts will tell you to try another strategy.This one will tell you why those won’t work. This is where faith, health, and business strategy collide.Each week we talk about:How your nervous system is either building your business or quietly sabotaging itWhy rewiring your nervous system and identity unlocks what regulation never could Real strategy for scaling without burning the woman behind the brandWhat Catholic/Christian theology has to say about money, ambition, and becomingHow to have more without doing moreDoing it all while being a present, joyful, peaceful mother & 6 or 7 figure business ownerThis is not hustle culture with a rosary or prayers on top. This is the real work; the kind that changes what you are capable of in your business, your body, y
HOSTED BY
Brigid Tebaldi
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