Loving, Learning, Laughing and (lots of) Laundry....Meet some women who have been in your shoes – or the one you could find this morning – and have something to say about it. Whether it is over a stack of laundry, homeschooling lessons, or office paperwork, take a break with award-winning Catholic author, international speaker, and Sirius XM radio host Katie Prejean McGrady for honest conversations and about navigating the joys, struggles, and well-earned wrinkles that come from the beautiful, messy vocation of mothering. Like a Mother is a OSV Podcasts partner.
Motherhood is a lifetime lesson in detachment, a constant recognition that we only have so much control. Moms tend gardens where the Lord grows something remarkable, and religious sisters tend those …
When loss seems to be the theme of your life, and when grief sits heavy in your heart, how do you pick up the pieces and not only carry on, but continue to create beautiful things? After years of inf…
There’s a temptation to “declare absolutes” in motherhood. “I’ll never do that” or “I’ll always do this.” But those absolute statements don’t take the realities and nuance of life, and Elizabeth Nava…
Marriage is not a walk in the park, NFP does not mean nonstop sex (or no sex), and the Cross we carry as moms can be heavy. But all of that, even in its heaviness, can bring us to some sort of new li…
What happens when you look around your Church and realize something is missing? That representation is not there? You do something about it. At least, that’s what Sarah Ku did. She sought to build, r…
Motherhood is full - full hands, full diapers, full fridges that hopefully lead to full tummies. In that fullness, a certain amount of juggling has to occur, and how the plates spin and the balls sta…
Moms begin and end each day pondering what they will do and what they perhaps didn’t get done, and weigh the expectations against reality moment by moment. Elizabeth Foss, author, speaker, wife, and …
The words “this is my body, given up for you” are said at every Mass, and are spoken by every mother, day in and day out, as we wipe and wean and walk with our children through the mess and grime and…
Mom of 6, Rachel Bulman, reflects on the heavy weight of motherhood, in that we are planting seeds for eternity with the hearts and minds of our children, and how even in the midst of that weighty re…
The ins and outs of motherhood must be rooted in Jesus and his love for us, and Sister Mary Grace Langrell of the Sisters of Life explores the idea that our motherhood, and living like moms in the da…
Catholic mothers face: criticism, comparison, worries & fears they’ll fail, overwhelming responsibilities, and at times, perhaps even resentment. But, there is also a remarkable joy as one mothers, a…