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The Empowered Catholic Podcast158 | Hope for the people of the kingdom of GodLet’s keep talking about hope! Karen works on your imagination by sharing multiple images of what the kingdom of heaven looks like. These are all images used by Paul in scripture. Marriage. Brides and bridegrooms. Citizens, like Roman citizens. Birth. There’s hope to be had when you enter into the kingdom mindset that is central to the New Testament. Contact Info Text us: The Empowered Catholic Podcast: 612-208-9150. Email us: EmpCatholic@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/empoweredcatholicpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theemp...2025-02-2628 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast143 | Good Boundary SignsWhat are some positive signs that Boundaries are working for you? Did you know that resentment is sometimes a good sign? What about viewing boundaries as a very positive way to help you build relationships with family, friends, and the groups that you belong to? Karen and Curtis wrap up the podcast season on boundaries with some signs or steps that help you see how you are making progress with healthy boundaries. Contact Info Text us: The Catholic Midlife podcast: 612-208-9150. Email us: TheCatholicMidlife@gmail.com F...2024-11-1321 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast136 | What to do with valuesWhat could you do with your list of values? Do what? That’s a valuable list that will motivate you and others, make decisions easier, help you navigate relationships and keep yourself pointed to the things that you actually want. Karen and Curtis talk about what to do with your values list and give some examples. Contact Info Text us: The Catholic Midlife podcast: 612-208-9150. Email us: TheCatholicMidlife@gmail.com Facebook: The Catholic Midlife Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecatholicmidlife/ Website: https://thmlcoaching.com/th...2024-09-2523 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast135 | Values CuriousCurtis was working on a breakthrough session and was asked to define his values in the area of work/career. This process made for an interesting discussion. What are your values in the area of work/career? Getting a handle on your values and bringing them up into the conscious level is helpful in many ways, not the least of which is being better able to honor them or to solve situations where you can’t honor all of your values. Contact Info Text us: The Catholic Midlife podcast: 612-208-9150. Emai...2024-09-1817 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast134 | Left Brain, Right Brain, Who Cares?Part II: We often let our left hemispheric brain doubt the transcendent. It simply lacks the tools. We continue our discussion of philosopher-neuroscientist -doctor-psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist and his research on the connections between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. It turns out, how these hemispheres interact influences culture, religion, human society, work, and pretty much everything about how we experience the world. Join us as Karen gets her first set of questions answered–which, you know, always leads to more. Contact Info Text us: The Catholic Midlife podcast: 612-208-9150. Em...2024-09-1126 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast133 | Left Brain, Right Brain, Who Cares?HI! It’s Curtis and Karen and we are super intrigued by philosopher-neuroscientist -doctor-psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist and his research on the connections between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Sounds abstract, right? Well. . not entirely. It turns out, how these hemispheres interact influences culture, religion, human society, work, and pretty much everything about how we experience the world. Join us as Karen gets her first set of questions answered–which, you know, always leads to more. Contact Info Text us: The Catholic Midlife podcast: 612-208-9150. Email us: TheCatholicMidlife@gmail.c...2024-09-0426 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast129 | Example Using the Four Requirements for ChangeThis week Karen and Curtis discuss how the Four Requirements for Change might apply in real life. We mostly talk about how it applies to physical health because it’s full of concrete details that make it easy to see how they work. Please send us your comments, we are always interested to hear your thoughts! Contact Info Text us: The Catholic Midlife podcast: 612-208-9150. Email us: TheCatholicMidlife@gmail.com Facebook: The Catholic Midlife Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecatholicmidlife/ Website: https://thmlcoaching.com/th...2024-08-0727 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast127 | Language: Speak Your Week Positively Your unconscious mind is always listening to what you have to say and will work to make things turn out the way you say. Do you like achievement? Accomplishing things? Improving? Then using positivity in your language is a big help for you! LISTEN to yourself this week. You might be surprised by what you hear. We discuss the possibilities and some limitations of being positive. Get your rational optimist glasses on and prime your brain with sweet, clean, positive speech and emotion for the win! The people around you will say THANK YOU! 2024-07-2425 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast115 | Easter HOPE that reaches out to all creationOur hope is too small. Scripture reveals a hope that embraces all of creation cosmically reordered and recreated as an interlocking of a new heaven and new earth. We are so individualistic, so atomized in our culture, that we can hardly even understand what we read in the New Testament when it comes to hope. Remember Romans 8 where all of creation groans as it waits for the revelation of the sons and daughters of God? That’s a hope that’s COSMIC in scope. It’s beyond “me and mine.” Karen discusses some of the images that Scripture uses to convey...2024-04-2425 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast102 | Four requirements for changeWe often lack what’s needed to actually make changes. In other words, we often have a goal and do not realize we are not ready to chase that goal. So we are not successful in creating the change. I think all of us have experienced that!! It’s not as easy as “just deciding” to do “it.” Karen shares the four requirements for change. The first one is to GET RID of the baggage that’s associated with the change. Join us as she explains what that means and shares the other three requirements for change. Contact Info2024-01-2428 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast91 | Language: Speak Your Week PositivelyYour unconscious mind is always listening to what you have to say and will work to make things turn out the way you say. Do you like achievement? Accomplishing things? Improving? Then using positivity in your language is a big help for you! LISTEN to yourself this week. You might be surprised by what you hear. We discuss the possibilities and some limitations of being positive. Get your rational optimist glasses on and prime your brain with sweet, clean, positive speech and emotion for the win! The people around you will say THANK YOU! Resources: R...2023-11-0823 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast86 | Your Young Adult: The Big Goal to Never Lose Sight OfThere’s a huge goal to never lose sight of when relating to your young adult! Our expectations of them can conflict with that goal. It’s human nature to focus on what’s NOT happening and to be impatient for what we think SHOULD be happening. We have expectations rooted in our own personal history. Let’s bear in mind that the culture is not what it used to be. Life’s path is less settled and predictable in terms of transitioning into independent adult roles. There’s also lots of brain maturation still happening into the late twenties. As...2023-10-0426 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast85 | Self Compassion Yes How Why NowJoin us as we take a quick break to remember the helpfulness of self-compassion practice, why it’s important that you use this skill now, what it is, and how much we want it as part of our spiritual life. Self-compassion is a skill and a habit. What does that remind you of?? A virtue! Yes, a habitual and firm disposition to do the good. In this instance, to do good to YOU so you can bring God’s good to those around you with serenity, courage, and grace. Need patience? Then you need self-compassion. Need to persevere with hope...2023-09-2722 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast84 | Interview: Unvarnished Faith with Bill YohBill Yoh shares how a love of neighbor lit up his life with the fire of the Holy Spirit and inspired him to live a simple, strong, unvarnished faith in a straightforward and consistent way. We were delighted to speak with him as he shared his experiences, from the dumpsters of Nicaragua to the boardroom of one of the largest privately held US companies. He shares lessons taught to him by the poor, by the generous people who serve them and picks out a handful of virtues that will help each of us follow the inspirations of the holy...2023-09-2031 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast83 | Slay the Giant Killer Duty Robot IIHow do you know if you have a Giant Killer Duty Robot looking over your shoulder? Dominican Fr. Servais Pinckaers continues to help us see the robot AND tells us what moral theory used to look like before that robot swept down like a terminator from Skynet and displaced the teachings of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and the church fathers. It turns out that, if you want to get your ideas about what you are supposed to do (aka morals) you have to START WITH THE RIGHT QUESTION! Yep. It’s true in your life. And it’s true in our...2023-09-1318 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast82 | Slay the Giant Killer Duty Robot IMove over, Goliath, we got a Giant Killer Duty Robot to slay here. Good thing we are getting lots of help from Dominican Fr. Servais Pinckaers, who wrote a lot of the encyclical Veritatis Splendor and the Catechism of the Catholic Church with John Paul II. Servais calls the robot “Moral Obligation Theory.” He traces its roots back to the 15th and 16th centuries. It’s a theory that has become a “lens” that most of us modern Christians use most of the time when we think about morals - it’s so powerful we don’t even know we are looking...2023-09-0622 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast81 | Scripture never tells you to be perfectEnd your bad habit of “perfect” with us! End it today. “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect is what it says in Matthew 5:48,” right? After all, PERFECT is an English word that we know very well. If it’s perfect then it’s flawless, without defects, and does not make mistakes. That’s modern English. But the word used in Scripture does not mean the same thing as the modern English word “perfect.” The word used in Matthew 5:48 is a form of the Greek word Teleios. It means something more like “grown” or “mature” like an acorn matured into an oak. Pleas...2023-08-3021 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast80 | Me, My, and Your PerfectionismAmanda is a young lady described in a recently published book reviewed in the August 23, 20023 Wall Street Journal. She’s had perfectionism drilled into her, Barbie-style, and she’s internalized it. “Self-directed” perfectionism is the perfectionism that’s directed at yourself; it’s what we normally think of as perfectionism. Amanda has hit all her milestones through her middle-class upbringing: the grades, the extracurriculars, and the great school. And now she has a great job. She’s empty. Why? Answering that question is, in many ways, the point of this podcast. We all know, intellectually, that chasing success can be a trap. Suc...2023-08-2323 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast79 | Barbie and you are perfectionists Barbie, the movie, has something to say about perfectionism. Remember that monologue by Gloria? Gloria was super frustrated with the contradicting and insatiable messages directed to her as a woman that required her to be perfect and to be judged inadequate whenever she fell short. It resonated with many, many women. Perfectionism messages are constantly being directly beamed into you from your environment. Beamed, like Scotty beaming things, OK? That's just one arena of life. Men and women are getting these messages constantly from all over the place in our culture, which is very competitive, often treats us as commodities...2023-08-1623 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast78 | Don’t take it PersonallyWe take things personally because it cuts to our survival instinct. What’s at stake, in our brains, isn’t “do I get the topping on the ice cream?”; it’s “ Do I get to eat today?” Our brains are always looking for threats. We quickly interpret what people say or do as being directed at “me.” If you are trying to bring that virtuous, charitable, wise “you” to the party, it’s so helpful to create some distance and boundaries around the stories you tell yourself. Listen to the podcast for some helpful thoughts! Contact Info Email o...2023-08-0923 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast77 | Rumination - It’s a trap!Ruminating undermines you. We can quickly move from necessary self-reflection into repetitive negative thought patterns that get in the way of growth and problem-solving. Midlifers love to chew on their mistakes and keep turning things over and over. And over and over. Rumination isn’t solving your problems. It's not bringing health and new growth. Instead, it's making things worse. And some good news is: we don't have to do it. We discuss how to know when you are ruminating, why it’s so engaging for our brains, and what some of your options for pushing back could be. We w...2023-08-0227 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast76 | Thought traps: Tricky ShouldsAre you ‘shoulding’ on yourself? (Don’t lie! We all do it) And it’s easy for those tricky ‘shoulds’ and ‘shouldn’ts” to start defining your emotions and behaviors. I should get up earlier. I should work out. I should get more sleep. I shouldn’t complain so much. I shouldn’t be upset. And what about what others should or shouldn’t do or be? Find out why this is distorted thinking and how it undermines who you are called to be and what you are called to do. Let us know how the ‘shoulds’ are showing up for you! Contact...2023-07-2627 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast75 | Thought traps: Silly Brain Tricks IIWhat? More thought traps? Yes, lots more. Hooray. Listen and spot your favorite one to work on this week. These traps derail us or leave us spinning our wheels. The ratio is great but awareness and curiosity are better for spotting and responding to them. We discuss and share examples of some of them, like Personalizing, Blaming, Unfair Comparisons, Regret Orientation, What IFs, Emotional Reasoning, Inability to Disconfirm, and Judgment Focus. Email us about YOUR “favorite” thought trap! Contact Info Email or text us: Text: The Catholic Midlife podcast: 612-208-9150. ...2023-07-1928 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast74 | Thought traps: Silly Brain Tricks IHumans (like you for instance) have some habits of thinking that are traps. We all fall into them, repeatedly. You have to laugh! These traps can shut down our thinking before we realize it, leaving us stuck or making poor choices because the traps often work at an unconscious level. Asking great questions is the key to uncovering thought traps. We discuss and share examples of some of them, like Mind Reading, Fortune-Telling, Catastrophizing, Labeling, Discounting Positives, Negative Filtering, Overgeneralizing, All-or-Nothing Thinking, and the infamous Shoulds. Listen and decide which one is your favorite, so you can work on...2023-07-1225 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast73 | Gospel of Suffering part 2All human sufferings are capable of being infused with the same power of God manifested in Christ's Cross, writes JP2 in Salvifici Doloris. We have solidarity with Christ in suffering. This solidarity and participation in the cross that unites us with the Holy Spirit is a reality to be experienced and confounds explanations and theories. Moreover, the church is not passive in the face of the world’s suffering; on the contrary, we are asked to go precisely to where people are suffering– and the Spirit comes with us. The disorders of our culture show us where we have not...2023-07-0523 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast72 | Gospel of Suffering part IJohn Paul II speaks of the Gospel of Suffering. He says “The Redeemer himself wrote this Gospel, above all by his own suffering accepted in love” in Salvifici Doloris. We, meaning everyone, are burdened with suffering. It’s natural for us to wish that, and basically expect that God will take it away from us. Suffering cuts directly to what it means to be human. It demands respect and a response. We suffer when we experience any kind of evil, be it “large” or “small.” We want to view suffering through the lens of redemption. Christ answered the question about sufferin...2023-06-2822 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast71 | How-to; The Vocation of SufferingWhat kind of energy are you bringing to situations where you suffer? Is it the kind of energy that leads to faith and hope, and finding purpose? The energy around your suffering tells you a lot about what you might be able to do differently. There’s no “right” way to suffer, nor can anyone tell you what you should do. Indeed, suffering is not going to go away in this present age; it is inextricably wound around us in a tight web. The questions we have for ourselves revolve around how we are going to let suffering shape us and...2023-06-2131 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast70 | Suffering in the processWhen life in the Spirit encounters the world, it doesn’t fit. There’s suffering at the points of collision. Life in the spirit, living in the new creation, being an agent of King Jesus, living the gospel - however you want to talk about living the new reality created by the resurrection - creates pain points because it doesn’t conform to this world. We are not conformed to this world. Instead, with the power of the Spirit, we conform this world to the reality of the new creation in the kingdom of God. That’s a via crucis...2023-06-1425 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast69 | Ask the right questions about sufferingSometimes we get bogged down in WHY am I suffering? Scripture does not really give us a direct explanation of why evil and its consequent suffering exist. Instead of a tidy explanation, we see the story of what He has done in history, in the Jewish people, and in Christ. We create theories and explanations but these fall short. "I sought whence evil comes and there was no solution", said St. Augustine. Asking WHY we are suffering in a particular way can easily get us stuck in frustration. Because we cannot “solve” our own suffering. God will draw a purpo...2023-06-0732 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast68 | Pentecost RenewalPentecost, the Ascension, and Daniel 7 - these are all tightly linked. It engenders hope to think about these connections. We love hope! We need it. The Spirit goes forth to renew all the Earth. Let’s invite it to start with each of us. Daniel 7 promised that great things that would happen when the Messiah returned. All power and kingship would be given to one like the son of man. That was fulfilled in the ascension when Christ went to Heaven to take up his kingship and start reigning. One of his first ACTS (like Acts 2) was to send th...2023-05-3118 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast67 | Freedom In Gifting; Lisa Mladinich InterviewLisa Mladinich helps people grow exponentially in their God-given talents. She’s a Catholic coach, mom, bestselling author, and an inspiration to listen to. Finding and (loving to be) using your strengths is primarily, and this is really important to keep in mind, for getting closer to God. It also helps you understand your weaknesses. It’s so rewarding to be more of who God meant us to be: life is better, we are better, we are closer to God, we do better in our relationships, and we step up and pitch in to do our part in the King...2023-05-2434 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast66 | Freedom and Your Awesome ContributionMaking your contribution is… awesome! There’s something about you that’s so unique that only YOU can make that contribution to building up the kingdom of God. As you transform God’s creation, you are transformed. Because you are cooperating with the Holy Spirit that’s working on you even as you work with it to do your special thing. It’s a little intimidating to think there’s a role that is just for each of us, but it’s going to be a role for which we are well-suited to play. Because God knows each of us very well and...2023-05-1728 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast65 | Freedom demands Self-acceptanceSelf-acceptance is one of the keys to life and is indispensable to Christian life. If you want to really change, you need self-acceptance in order to do so: it always precedes real change. Self-criticism is a common but weak alternative practice that many people embrace. Repeat: self-criticism is a bad habit that’s puny and wears you down. Self-acceptance, on the other hand, lets you see the same things in yourself, but without flinching. St. Francis de Sales practiced self-acceptance when he counseled us “not to fret over our own imperfections and to say to ourselves: Well, my dear frien...2023-05-1023 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast64 | Freedom is acceptingWith acceptance, even though it doesn't change objective reality, the attitude of your heart is very different. You can enter into that reality with faith, hope, and love and find God operating there. You can find your peace which is always vital. You own your freedom and agency. Getting to a place of acceptance is often a key in coaching. It’s also a spiritual discipline. Paradoxically, more acceptance means more freedom. Freedom, properly understood, creates agency. Now positive change is enabled. Contact Info Email or text us: Text: The Catholic Midli...2023-05-0327 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast63 | Freedom and Your AgencyI am reliably informed that with great beer comes great responsibility. OK. Certainly with Freedom comes Responsibility. You have AGENCY as a person. Freedom is for agency. I am sometimes quick to throw in the towel and say: I have no power here, no options, no choices, no mas. But I am always an AGENT; I am an actor as in “active”; I am a cause. Not THE cause, but A cause. John Paul II compares the attitude of “I am a cause” to “something is happening to me or in me over which I have no influence.” You are God’s re...2023-04-2621 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast62 | Yaaas! Enjoying your Christian Freedom ForFreedom is FOR what? We hear a lot about what we’ve been freed FROM, like sin and death (yay for that!), and not so much about what we are free FOR. Freedom is the foundational bedrock for the human spirit and central to your Christian walk. There are a lot of misconceptions and failures of imagination when it comes to thinking about freedom. We use this podcast season to clear some of those up so you can have, hold, and step into your wonderful Christian freedom. Contact Info Email or text us: 2023-04-1926 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast61 | Apology hang-ups and hold-outsApologies are just a step in a relationship, perhaps a way to get a conversation moving again. Sometimes they don’t seem to “fit” the situation. Or we sense that the other person will use them to make us feel more guilty or to manipulate us. We talk about complex situations and how an apology might fit in. There are also reasons that we and “they” resist making apologies. Knowing how to decide if, when, and where to make your apology is an art. Get some ideas and grounding by listening to this episode. Contact...2023-04-1225 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast60 | Easter - Resurrection of YouHappy Easter, everyone! What a great season to be in. Let the party begin! This is your bonus Easter episode. We spend a lot of time and energy thinking about what's gonna happen when we die. We don't, really, as Christians, spend nearly enough time thinking about what's going to happen when we're resurrected. The gospel message directs us to this new kind of life that Jesus has opened up for us in his cross and resurrection. The question of “what's gonna happen when I die” is, scripturally, turning the gospel on its head because what the gospel directs us to...2023-04-0920 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast59 | How good of an apologizer are you?A good apology can clear the air. A bad apology will make everything worse. Learning how to make a good apology is a relationship-saver. But nobody tells us how to do these things. I guess that’s why most of us are not very good at apologies! What a shame! We dig into to-do’s and to-dont’s on this episode. If you’re like us, you will discover that you have some apology habits that need an upgrade. Email us with an example of an apology that DID or DIDN’T work for you. Resource: Ha...2023-04-0531 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast58 | The gap between forgiveness and reconciliationThere’s a big gap between reconciliation and modern ideas of forgiveness. This gap appears at all levels - between individuals, in local groups, and in nations. Modern forgiveness focuses on releasing anger and hurt so we can move on and be at peace. That’s so important! Reconciliation goes even further and seeks a renewal of the relationship after facing the difficulties of acknowledging the harm to the injured persons. Reconciliation is often not possible and that creates a gap. Once you see this gap, you can appreciate what’s missing from forgiveness. Understanding this gap helps you come t...2023-03-2928 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast57 | What the heck is forgiveness, anyways?Forgiveness doesn’t have a simple definition or formula. It’s an act of will that also engages with the heart, which can be enlarged, illuminated, and encouraged but not commanded. Forgiveness has huge personal benefits, like releasing toxic emotions. It also extends into the world with social and political impacts. Forgiveness does not overlook wrongs - instead, it puts a spotlight on them so that what needs forgiveness is known to all and can be grieved. It does not cater to wrongdoers but creates new boundaries to be enforced. Forgiveness is not reconciliation although it’s a step toward...2023-03-2234 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast56 | Forgiveness is the air you breatheForgiveness is one of those things you know you should do but nobody tells you how. It’s not easy. And it’s indispensable to the Christian life. In this episode we start off a podcast season on forgiveness with a theological perspective: Forgiveness is a way of life. Think more in terms of identity to step into than another obligation for you to deal with. Forgiveness is like a door that allows forgiveness to be received and to be given. The question is: how will we allow the door to open a little more? Contac...2023-03-1523 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast55 | The Marriage Crisis: J.P. De Gance Surprises and InspiresThere’s an enormous evangelization opportunity for us. It’s a wonderful opportunity to meet people with their deepest needs. What is it? It’s marriage. People of all ages, even today in 2023, long for great marriages. We, Catholic parishes everywhere, can help. J.P. De Gance helps parishes help others build marriages and, by the way, grow their own parishes. In fact, his organization Communio has a track record of doing exactly that. Learn about the state of marriage, why it has everything to do with the future of the Church, and how we can help others be blesse...2023-03-0837 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast54 | Listening Violations and VictoriesWe commit listening violations frequently. It’s natural to jump in with our me-centric perspective. Listening, however, is other-centric when it’s performed at more than a surface level. We talk about some of the common listening violations and suggest alternatives. We want you to come away from this episode with ideas about how to spot what’s missing when your spouse is listening to you and what you might be overlooking as a listener. Listening is directly proportional to giving and receiving intimacy. Most of us are never taught even the most basic listening skills. Conta...2023-03-0127 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast53 | Three Marriage Tensions You Must MasterWhen we are not satisfied with something in our marriage, it’s up to us to do something about it. Because that’s when things change, when someone is ready to make the effort to figure out what and how to change the patterns in the relationship. Often we have an idea that it’s just one “thing” that we are after. “Things” however almost always exist on a continuum. For instance, there’s no vision if we don’t have enough of both light and darkness because no contrast means there’s nothing to see. If we are not growing, we are...2023-02-2227 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast52 | Lessons From Connected Marriage ExpertsJoin the conversation with Phil and Michelle at Connected Marriage, which has been transferring skills to married couples for more than a decade. Midlife is a time when our past investments and patterns start to yield fruit. You have mixed results. What’s going to change? Where is turning toward your spouse (not) happening? Also, why do women tend to give up on an area of relationship at about the time that the men are starting to notice it? Join us! Get in touch with guests Phil or Michelle at www.connectedmarriage.org Conta...2023-02-1529 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast51 | Marriage: Write the Next Chapter of Your MarriageGrow grow grow. Worried about how great your marriage is going to be when it’s back to “just the two of us”? You should be! Maybe not worried, exactly, but proactive. What to do? Date nights? Common interests? Karen and Curtis invite you to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. What’s really going to serve this marriage? Think in terms of growth. Think SHARP! S is for Shared Vision. What are things you want to be able to say about your marriage in 10 years? What stories will you tell about your together experience? That’s “S...2023-02-0834 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast50 | St. Francis de Sales Continues to Amaze!Everything pertains to love! That’s the title of a new Papal letter out on St. Francis de Sales, Totum Amoris Est, published on the 400-yr anniversary of the death of de Sales. It inspired us. St. Francis’ description of the love of God uses emotional language instead of dry philosophical arguments. It’s striking how de Sales worked hard to make loving God be attractive to his contemporaries. It was also striking how de Sales described the devout life (being holy) in terms of having an interior energy and alertness that's alive to God and the world instead of bei...2023-02-0130 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast49 | Goals: The Art and Science of Setting Goals Part IILife goals are so important! Without goals, momentum starts to take over your life. You live in reaction mode. Your past controls your future. Your day-to-day life blocks your bigger questions about what your life goals are. What are you going to put on the table? Because God is waiting to help you bring your gifts and talents into play. We often want God to simply tell us what to do. At The Catholic Midlife podcast, we believe He is often waiting for YOU to tell HIM something you want to do. What will you of...2023-01-2526 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast48 | Goals: The Art and Science of Setting Goals Part IThe question for goals is: What is the harvest that you want? Goals are all about the Law of the Farm: you plan, you prepare the field by removing rocks and tilling, you plant, you water, you do the right things in the right season, and finally you harvest. Goals engage the law of the farm by creating the plan & engaging the process. There is SCIENCE to this; there is also ART. You make a lot of decisions along the way that changes the process or influence the outcome. Goals are so helpful in keeping us m...2023-01-1831 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast47| Goals: Because the Rest of Your Life Matters“Why Goals?” Because the rest of your life matters. Grab that mindset. Often we are merely coping. Striving to do what is necessary and carve out a little “life” in between. When we believe that the rest of our life matters in terms of what we live, do, say, and be - we have a different outlook. The people around us need us to show up at our best. The culture around us needs the Christian perspective and service; the life-giving, loving, and supportive presence that justifies being called the salt of the earth or the yeast in the dough. 2023-01-1128 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast46| Goals: Why they fail and what to do“Why can't I achieve this goal?” There are a lot of reasons. For example, we don't always set the right goals. And when we set them, we don't always have a clear sense of what it will actually be like to achieve them. Also, we have a bunch of unspoken goals that we're already working on consciously and unconsciously, and those can take priority without us even realizing it. So we may not even appreciate that we're already working on many goals. Think about what's your approach to achieving a goal. If you're like most of us, you...2023-01-0427 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast45 | Christmas: You are an Agent of the New CreationChrist is born to be King! He IS King, now. Merry Christmas! That makes us agents of the New Creation because Christ has already started the New Creation. Paul talks about this a lot. God wants to dwell with man and will bring heaven down to earth and they will exist together in the new creation; think of the New Jerusalem descending in Revelations. Christ, he says, is the “first fruits” of the new creation. He’s the first to be resurrected, to show us the way. He’s sent the spirit to us, and we, too have the “first frui...2022-12-2821 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast44 | You are a Citizen of Heaven Now in the New CreationYou are a citizen of Heaven - did you know that? Paul wrote that in Philippians 3. His listeners would immediately know that’s like being a citizen of Rome. Philippi was a colony. Roman citizens there were agents and emissaries of Roman culture, law, language, customs, and power. Roman citizens living in Philippi weren't interested in leaving Philippi and going to Rome if things got dicey. They would call on the emperor to send in backup. John’s gospel, which is our focus this season, explains that Jesus has already started his kingdom on Earth. You ar...2022-12-2125 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast43 | Advent: Find the seven signs of glory in the gospel of JohnJohn is determined to show how the Shekinah has returned in an unexpected way: in the person of Jesus. Then who, when, where, and how of its return is shocking. There could be no messiah without addressing the Temple question. The Messiah would restore the temple. Period. No restored temple, no messiah. The Temple was central to Jewish thought, history, practice, mindset - to everything. If the messiah did not restore the Shekinah, which is the glorious presence of God, there was no messiah. Scripture was very clear on this point. Ezekiel 43 has a beautiful passage describing the return...2022-12-1423 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast42| Advent; Jesus as temple, a powerful lens for Christmas meaningMost of our listeners know that using the covenant “lens” is a powerful organizing principle for reading Scripture. It helps explain what’s happening and creates insights for us today. The Temple “lens” is a similar powerful organizing principle. There are some surprises there, at least for me (Curtis). I knew Jesus referred to himself as a temple but somehow that slid past me because, well, that old Jerusalem temple isn’t around anymore and its role was replaced. Or maybe I heard growing up that “your body is a temple” that shalt not (fill in the blank) and it seemed like r...2022-12-0717 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast41| It’s Advent, So why are we talking about Genesis One?The creation account in Genesis is not understood by modern people. We’ve pretty much missed every important point in it. We have read all of our modern preconceptions into it, wondered why it makes little sense, and then created pointless controversies about why it is so. Listen to the podcast to grasp what Genesis is actually all about. God Resting Doesn’t Mean Watching the Superbowl, with snacks We can look at how the words of Genesis are used in other places in Scripture. We can also look at other creation stories to see...2022-11-3024 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast40 | Holding your life together in gratitudeGratitude has its ins and outs! Karen discusses how gratitude shows up in our lives, points to a couple of pitfalls, and shares some tips. We are grateful for you, our listeners, and invite you to join the discussion at The Catholic Midlife podcast.2022-11-2413 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast39 | The Surprising Mind: How should you relate to your emotions?What a great question! How should you relate to your emotions, indeed? We paint a picture for you in this episode, which wraps up our Surprising Mind season. We also share 10 common, erroneous myths about emotions and talk about how we have synergy or overlap with certain healing ministries. Painting A Picture for relating to your emotions Think of a Catholic man or woman in midlife, which you probably are. And, in this person’s life, her dad passed away several years ago. She’s had some time to grieve and heal. And today...2022-11-2329 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast38 | Mental and Emotional ReleaseWe are not OK with it I'm coming to realize that there are people that believe that they don't deserve compassion. As you sit there, you might think that's ridiculous because you know that God made each of us, so of course, we deserve compassion. But then you start digging down into some specific situations and particular circumstances and you find, if you dig enough, that you believe you don’t deserve compassion in some area of life. Like the time you made a mistake or you acted poorly or went even farther astray than tha...2022-11-1628 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast37 | The Surprising Mind: Working with your elephant, Part IIYour unconscious mind is in charge of creating and executing your habits! Habits include your thoughts and emotions. Brushing your teeth is a habit. So is the way you manage conflict. Your style of talking to yourself is also a habit - what’s your self-talk like? Is it mostly positive? Negative? Some things just “set you off”, right? Those “things” are triggers that cause a habit to kick in. Habits of the mind are very powerful. These are typically a huge factor in how much we enjoy life, how effective we are, and whether or not our spiritu...2022-11-0927 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast36 | The Surprising Mind: Working with your elephant, Part IYour unconscious mind does some powerful and amazing things for you. . .but how do you get it on board with who you’re trying to be and where you’re trying to go? Get some tips on working with your elephant and talking to it the way it likes to be talked to–because after all, your unconscious mind is YOU and it can also be your very best friend. Contact Info Email or text us: Text: The Catholic Midlife podcast: 612-208-9150. Email us: TheCatholicMidlife@gmail.com Facebook...2022-11-0226 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast35 | The Surprising Mind: Giddy Up, Elephant!We are going to share a metaphor with you about how your mind works and suggest a couple of ways for you to manage yourself with more grace. The ancients knew that teaching wisdom involved touching the heart and the mind. Here are a couple of examples: “It is better to obey the Lord and to have only a little than to be very rich and terribly anxious.” And “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Modern minds are so deeply enmeshed in scientific materialism that we're not even aware of it...2022-10-2629 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast34 | The Surprising Mind: Why the Map is not the TerritoryKaren tells the story of the man who thought he was Jesus Christ, somewhere in California in the sixties. It took a while for this version of Jesus to figure that one out. He needed a little help from Richard Bandler, who went on to become a famous psychologist. All I can say to California Jesus, is: Dude, like, that’s so bogus, right? Everything that you know about the world around you came to you via your senses. All of it. The impressions passed into you and your unconscious mind put them into the place in the...2022-10-1922 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast33 | The Surprising Mind: What it’s addingTime for a new season! It’s your surprising mind. Getting a handle on some of its quirks can really give you a head start on navigating life’s obstacles and continuing to grow. Perspectives on the prodigal son The parable of the prodigal son. Think about what you’ve thought and heard about it. Here’s the younger son, shockingly asking for his share of the estate before his father is dead. Then going away to the heathen that were not the people of God that the Jews sought to be. And then wasting all that m...2022-10-1220 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast32 | Self-Compassion: Seeing Yourself Through The Eyes of GodWe often unconsciously resist receiving God’s love and the graces that flow with it. We get discouraged, we ruminate, and we isolate ourselves. We criticize ourselves. We criticize other people. We get stuck in these judgment loops and all of that keeps us both from hearing God's voice and from seeing ourselves the way that God sees us. What if we saw ourselves through the eyes of God’s compassion for us? Could we start allowing God to really help us to have that kind of a vision - instead of looking through some other...2022-10-0518 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast31 | Self-Compassion: Pull it together!What do I need now? Oh, that’s EASY: I need some chocolate, coffee, or both! LOL, no, That’s not what I need - that’s more like a passing thought before I realize: no, I need a lot more than that at this time. Asking “What do I need now” is the third step in the self-compassion break. Our habit is to skip straight to this question. Or to skip even this question and ask, instead, what does THIS PROBLEM need right now? Can you see the distinction bet...2022-09-2821 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast30 | Self-Compassion: How to take a Self-Compassion breakDo those around you deserve to be treated with compassion? With compassionate speech, which is kind and sensitive to speak in a manner that is helpful? With an act of compassion, such as a hug, a hand on the shoulder, or a smile at the right time? Do they deserve to be encouraged when life is offering them difficulty? What does it say about you, when you are able to act compassionately? What about you? Do you deserve to be treated with compassion? Do you really...2022-09-2124 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast29 | Self-Compassion: Using the Skill of AwarenessWhen am I supposed to practice the skill of self-compassion? There are lots of chances every day! If you hate being late and you're being late to someplace - maybe your automatic reaction is I should have done “this” or “that” and why didn’t I and why am I so dumb? That's an opportunity to stop and use some self-compassion. Maybe you need to make a difficult phone call and fear of looking dumb or creating conflict is holding you back. Self-compassion can help you embrace these fears and accept them so you can make the call...2022-09-1424 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast28 | Self-Compassion: why you want this discipline“I realized I had been engaging in a lot of self-criticisms because I saw it as part of being virtuous. I thought being a big self-critic helped me serve others better and not be selfish. After practicing self-compassion, I began to realize that my self-criticism was actually keeping my focus on myself. It was a self-oriented and self-absorbed habit. Self-compassion helps me move my focus away from me, to be more available and more engaged with others.” That’s some feedback from a lady who leaned into the discipline of self-compassion. We have the mistaken idea tha...2022-09-0724 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast27 | The number one enemy of spiritual lifeHOPE is a theme of our podcast. HOPE. We keep coming back to it. Because we need a LOT of it. We need a lot of it because life is either challenging us, or even kicking us when we are down, and because we are leaning into new challenges that S-T-R-E-T-C-H us. Life is short and needs lots of hope if we want to accept it and embrace it. Supernatural hope does not disappoint. It certainly does CHALLENGE. The world seems a tad crazy, bad, and sad. Cultivating and receiving hope is not so easy. I...2022-08-3122 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast26 | Finding Meaning and Purpose: Eight Ways to Check if You Have ItHow do you KNOW you are living with meaning and purpose? We are wrapping-up this season on meaning and purpose: shoot us an email if you want our list of eight items to ponder if you are living with meaning and purpose. How do you know? If you are ABSOLUTELY MISSING it, you likely know it. And if you are ABSOLUTING SMASHING IT, you likely know that. The interesting bit is the in-between. I'm really struck by how purpose is such a powerful organizing principle for our lives. It really shows us where our treasure is...2022-08-2425 min
The Empowered Catholic Podcast25 | INTERVIEW: Your Most Powerful Question, Dr. John OlesnavageIn life, we often don’t make progress until we ask the RIGHT question. That’s why we are so impressed with Dr. John Olesnavage’s approach: finding Your Most Powerful Question. He has written the book Your Most Powerful Question; Finding purpose and meaning in God’s plan. It’s the fruit of years of professional work as a Doctor of Psychology, many years’ experience with his own most powerful question, and working with many, many people to help them find their most powerful question. If you read the lives...2022-08-1720 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast24 | Finding Meaning and Purpose: UNpacking and REpacking your packIf you were heading out to canoe for two weeks in the Boundary Waters, a series of pristine lakes up around Ely, Minnesota, you would be unpacking your gear and selecting what you need to go into the canoe with you. You would not want what you don’t need. You would want what you need and no more. It would be REALLY hard to decide what to take OUT of your bag and what to put INTO your bag if you did not have a strong sense of WHERE you were going. ...2022-08-1020 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast23 | Finding Meaning and Purpose: Retirement and MidlifeMeaning and purpose are big themes in transition. Transitions like RETIREMENT, EMPTY NEST, or other WAKE-UP call you might have. Where’s the excitement, meaning, purpose, discomfort, and discernment kicking in? Where’s the expediency, fear, super cautious, or momentum kicking in? We had a season on TRANSITIONS, starting at episode 2. John Paul II, in Christifideles Laici, at 58, wrote “The fundamental objective of the formation of the lay faithful is an ever-clearer discovery of one's vocation and the ever-greater willingness to...2022-08-0322 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast22 | Finding Meaning and Purpose: Values Impact Indeed as a person with a truly unique lifestory, each is called by name, to make a special contribution to the coming of the Kingdom of God. No talent, no matter how small, is to be hidden or left unused (cf. Mt 25:24-27) . . . . In this regard the apostle Peter gives us a stern warning: "As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace" (1 Pt 4:10). John Paul II in Christifideles Laici, at 56 Making our unique contribution. It’s a powerful catalyst to effective action when understood in a...2022-07-2721 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast21 | Finding Meaning and Purpose: Having a profound sense of who you are.Our definition of purpose includes having a profound sense of who you are. That’s intriguing. As we tried to get to the core of what that really means, we touched on about half a dozen key ideas. One of them is a very helpful “how-to” find meaning and purpose. Another key concept is that we have spiritual, mental, and emotional realms that need to cooperate. Integrating these realms so we can be a complete, whole, person is crucial. When we're feeling a lack of meaning and purpose, it’...2022-07-2023 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast20 | Finding Meaning and Purpose: Definition, JP2, and General VocationThis is a big topic! We need purpose and meaning. Think about times when you’ve felt that your actions had no meaning or purpose. Yikes. Well-being requires a sense of purpose and meaning. Fortunately, as Christians, we have strong spiritual resources that help us find that. The SPIRITUAL realm of our being does not always percolate down into our day-to-day moments, however. We also have MENTAL and EMOTIONAL realms of life and are PHYSICAL beings connected to others SOCIALLY in an ENVIRONMENT. All of those realities impact u...2022-07-1325 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast19 | Book of Romans: The “glory of God”: what is that, anyway?Here’s one more take on Romans 8! In this episode, we are focusing on the glory of God: what is it? What does it mean? And whatever is Paul talking about when he says God’s children will be ‘glorified with him’? Can Christians really partake of the glory of God? Paul starts by encouraging us to “celebrate the hope of the glory of God” (Romans 5: 2) and continues to help us understand what that all means in chapter 8. And here’s the thing: it might not be what you imagin...2022-07-0622 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast18 | Book of Romans: There is no condemnation for those in the Messiah JesusBook of Romans! It’s not an easy read! We will have a couple of episodes just on Chapter 8. There’s a lot of HOPE and assurances in Romans. There are many more themes, including patience and suffering. It’s all going to be worth it, Paul says. Chapter eight of Romans starts with this: Therefore there is no condemnation for those in the Messiah, Jesus. Let’s all make that a verse we remember, just like we remember John 3:16. No condemnation. It’s so easy for us t...2022-06-2920 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast17 | Your Young Adult: The Critical Art of ValidatingDo you want her to hear you? You must hear her first. Do you want him to see your perspective? You must see his perspective first. Being SEEN and HEARD is important to any relationship that has depth and vitality. The person in front of you has DIGNITY. God made him or her. Recognizing the dignity of the other person is your job. It’s up to you. When you are speaking with your young adults, and pretty much anyone, DO THIS: be on the loo...2022-06-2224 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast16 | Your Young Adult: CollaboratingOur children, at any age, are always hoping to feel loved by us. Receiving love from your mom and dad is a primary psychological drive. It’s a reason why psychologists are always trying to get you to straighten-out your relationships with your parents. As parents, let’s make sure we fulfill our role. It’s our unique opportunity. COLLABORATING will help you stay in that role. Thinking in terms of COLLABORATING with your young adults during their transition to independence helps shift the relationsh...2022-06-1521 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast15 | Your Young Adult: Do’s and Don’ts What’s the best way to give advice? Our young adults generally don’t want to hear it. They’ve had plenty of it from us in the past. They likely need lots of advice, however. Or could, at least, use some to avoid making costly mistakes. There’s also something that we often offer when we give the advice: it’s something that they intensely dislike. We discuss some of the biggest DO’s and DON’Ts for managing our relationships with our young adults. What’s a st...2022-06-0821 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast14 | Your Young Adult: The Big Goal to Never Lose Sight OfThere’s a huge goal to never lose sight of when relating to your young adult! This huge goal is: to create a healthy and loving relationship with our adult children. Our expectations of them can conflict with that goal. It’s human nature to focus on what’s NOT happening and to be impatient for what we think SHOULD be happening. We have expectations rooted in our own personal history. Let’s bear in mind that the culture is not what it used to be. Life’s path is less settled and predictable in terms of tra...2022-06-0123 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast13 | INTERVIEW: Noreen McInnes shares wisdom on accompanying parents through sickness and deathNoreen helps us find wisdom and receive grace as we accompany our aging parents as caregivers, children, and companions as they age and need our help. We talked about what she learned, how God showed up for her, and how she managed her parents’ aging and deaths. Join us as Noreen, a lovely lady of humor and persistence shares some of her touching stories and inspires us. Her book, Keep at it, Riley! is the memoir of her experiences. What’s a story you have about life with your aging parents? We would love to hear fro...2022-05-2531 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast12 |HAPPINESS: It Sets You Up for Success in Everything that You DoHappiness, striving for happiness, is important in everything you do. Happiness sets us up for success - in Work, Love, and Play. In spiritual life. In doing the right things. In all of the above. Create an ethic to strive for happiness. Martin Seligman, the positive psychologist was out in his yard doing yard work. His daughter was maybe five or six. She said, “Daddy, do you remember when I was four? And I had to learn to stop whining and it was fairly hard for me, but I learned how to stop?” Martin said, “Yes, I rem...2022-05-1819 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast11 | HAPPINESS: The Pleasant Life, the Good Life, and the Meaningful LifeWe’ve been discussing happiness. Aquinas views the desire for happiness as ingrained in and being inseparable from, our humanity. We want to be with God because we desire happiness. We are made for Him. There are some schools of thought based on an idea that we should be disinterested in happiness and entirely focused on serving God and others. That’s not how human nature works. Happiness is sometimes used to refer to just feeling good or pursuing pleasure. We are talking about something broader than that. Humans are pretty good at giving u...2022-05-1121 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast10 | HAPPINESS: You need purpose! Unity in our spiritual, mental, and emotional livesIt is important as spiritual beings, as Christians, and Catholics to strive for happiness. And we can make a lot of choices for it that are perfectly in alignment with our highest values and everything we believe. Happiness helps us be what God intends. We use the word “happiness” to refer to thriving, flourishing, and cooperating with grace. Purpose has an important role to play in happiness. You have spiritual, mental, and emotional components: you want these things to be in congruence because you want all that awesome Catholic and interior spiritual life to flow through you withou...2022-05-0425 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast9 | HAPPINESS: Is it safe for Catholics to pursue happiness?? A few misconceptions about happinessSaint Augustine was asked a difficult question: what to ask of God? He said Ora beatam vitam: meaning “Ask for the happy life.” What?? It’s good to be happy. It’s important as spiritual beings, as Christians, as Catholics, to strive for happiness. Humans desire happiness as an inseparable aspect of their nature. There are quite a few misconceptions about happiness. Find out if it’s really OK to pursue happiness. We would love to hear from you! Email: TheCatholicMidlife@gmail.com Text or Leave a Voice Message: 612-208-9150 2022-04-2726 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast8 | The Lord of the Rings and being in the Kingdom now. A tale of two-stage eschatology in Easter.We have a role to play in the Kingdom of God, now. With His Easter resurrection, Jesus inaugurated His new Kingdom. We each have a role and identity in this Kingdom. Listen to Karen explaining how this Kingdom is part of a two-stage process of God unfolding His purpose and, by implication, our roles. Then listen while Curtis uses analogies to the Lord of the Rings to grapple with what it’s all about. Trigger warning: Karen uses the E-word (eschatology). We would love to hear from you! Find us here: Email: TheCatholicMidlife@gmail.com...2022-04-2020 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast7 | Jewish hopes in the Old Testament help us SEE our Hope todayKnowing about the hopes of the Jews as seen through the Old Testament helps us better appreciate what the kingdom of God in the New Testament is, and what that might mean to us. We share how this shifts our perspectives: From pursuing to having; From chasing to possessing; From me acting as an individual to being invited to participate in God’s cosmic project of salvation and transformation, a project that is rooted in Heaven and Earth, now.2022-04-1323 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast6 | Midlife transformations you might have, and rites of passageRites of passage in traditional societies show a firm grasp of the phases of transition. Catholics know a thing or two about tradition! We have rites of passage, for sure. Also, liturgical cycles are tied to the seasons. There’s no single modern rite of passage for midlife. But midlife transitions can bring a transformation in outlooks: we discuss a few of them. 2022-04-0620 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast5 | The “New Beginnings” Phase in TransitionsDescription: Transitions have an ending; it’s called the New Beginning. When the New Beginning starts to show up, you are starting on the end phase! This phase can be fuzzy, so having a mastery focus is very helpful. Christian spiritual masters talk of living in the present as a spiritual discipline; a mastery focus helps us with that, too. The New Beginning may not be what we expect!2022-03-3122 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast4 | The "Messy Middle" of TransitionsThere's a lot of uncertainty and insecurity in transitions. Let's decide to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, to practice hope, and to get the most out of our transition process!2022-03-2327 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast3 | Grit and Grace in midlife transitions; new wine skins.Grit and Grace in Midlife Transitions is the topic of Season One. Understanding a few basic things about transitions is super helpful for personal and spiritual growth. Transitions include letting go and receiving. If we want to be filled with new things, it’s hard to receive them if we are full of other stuff. It’s like the old wineskins that can’t receive the new wine. Listen and get the low-down on transitions. 2022-03-2320 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast2 | Beginning with an endingIn this episode, Karen and Curtis dive into the phases of transition and the power of endings, letting go, and choosing to own your transition. There is new wine available to us, so why do we say, "Nope! I'm good with the old!"2022-03-2323 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast1 | Karen and Curtis introduce themselvesWe decided it would be fun to ask each other questions by way of introducing ourselves and what’s behind the podcast. Listen to Karen try to keep Curtis from digressing in this fast-paced mutual interview. Backgrounds, books, blue-collar, when we hear the F-bomb, Hope, and other essential info is all right here! We also invite you to start sharing your insights with us around the show; we decided to open up a Facebook group: The Catholic Midlife to hear your perspectives! .2022-03-0935 minThe Empowered Catholic Podcast0 | Introducing The Catholic Midlife Podcast!We (Karen and Curtis) introduce The Catholic Midlife podcast. We cover topics such as: Why midlife should be intentionally treated as a transition - an important one! Why we started a podcast for Catholic midlifers. And a key Spiritual theme that shows up over and over in midlife and in our coaching practice.2022-03-0821 min
Midlife FreedomLessons learned on the way to 'empty nesting' with Karen HerbertSend us a text In today's episode, Karen Herbert shares with us how pursuing an academic life and then raising a non-neuro typical family challenged everything she expected about herself, and her life path. She now works in partnership with her husband, Curtis. Together they help other women who are facing the challenges of being empty nesters! Support the show Join the community on Instagram Find out more and get resources at https://linktr.ee/Lindsayds Please leave a review too! Rev...2021-10-0546 min
Say Yes to HolinessEpisode #72--"Exploring, Not Wandering”--Conversation with Karen and Curtis Hebert, Themelios CoachingIn this podcast, Christina sits down to speak with Karen and Curtis Herbert of Themelios Coaching. Themelios Coaching supports women who are entering the empty nest period of their life. Primarily, they focus upon helping you manage the transition, navigate your changing relationships, and find the exciting treasure that is awaiting you in the second half of your life. In fact, part of our conversation was about their proprietary exploration process they use to help you identify the unique contribution you bring to the world and to invest wisely in the next 20 years.
Additionally, we spoke about...2021-06-0930 min