Latte and Laundry: A home for Catholic women, moms, and hearts + encouragement for your mighty motherhood

 "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you." -John 15:12 This week we continue our conversation on loving others through our wounds. Second to being a child of God, our primary vocation on this earth for married individuals is our role as wives (or husbands) . But many of us bring wounds and broken parts of us into our marriage. So how do we love each other through our wou...

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3 It can be a painful process to open ourselves up to healing our deep wounds. In fact, it can feel like an insurmountable task to love and tend to the needs of the little souls in our homes while we are knee-deep in our healing journey.  And yet, there is an unearthly joy that we may receive by meeting Christ in these very intimate...

"You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there" ~ Jeremiah 6:14 This week we kick off our Lenten series around wounds. This is an invitation to join me as I explore our need for healing.  Have an episode idea you want to hear about? Shoot me a message here! Support the show She Loved: Resting in the Beauty of Motherhood (New Motherhood Book with Ascension- Be encouraged and uplifted: w...

“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 Our crosses and our sufferings can create a sense of isolation and loneliness in the depths of our hearts. We secretly fear and believe that no one struggles in the way that we do. And though our crosses are often unique to our own path of sanctification, we must remember that in this imperfect world, E...

“You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.” Saint Augustine  In this bonus episode, we reflect on the Sunday Gospel for February 19, 2023. Okay, my friends, it's time to buckle up because Christ is calling us to great heights when he asks us...

" A tranquil heart gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones." - Proverbs 14:30 Today I continue the conversation around friendships. I wanted to explore one way in which many of our friendships become poisoned and wounded: through ENVY.  If "through the devil’s envy death entered the world" (Wisdom 2:24), it should be no surprise to us how competition and envy can kill f...

Ladies, it is time we get vulnerable!  I firmly believe that there is a massive poverty of love in our world today because we live behind a dark cold cloak of protection. We guard and hide ourselves from being seen and thus starve from the lack of nourishment and encouragement that being fully known and loved would provide.  St Maximilian Kolbe speaks to the importance and gift of friendship when...

“ Like a master sculptor shaping us into new creations through the blows that come with each spilled cup, every lost hour of sleep, and all that laundry, God is giving us the ultimate makeover. Motherhood is not merely a quick phase to endure until we “can have our life back,” but a much deeper gift. It is a divine makeover, forming us for eternity .” ~ Carrie Gress This week I chat with the lovel...

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” - Proverbs 22:6 Organizations are in the business of managing people and processes. However, the dignity of the human person in the context of relationships was never something that was meant to be managed . In fact, when God asked us to shepherd his children in love, he never asked us to manage them. Inste...

Bonus Episode! In this episode, we are diving into and reflecting on the upcoming Sunday Gospel for January 22nd 2023 (Matthew 4:12-23) . This Gospel is one we have heard dozens, if not hundreds of times over the years. But is it merely a simple story of how Jesus chose his first apostles?? No, it is a story of utter obedience and surrender. It  reminds us that in order to   follow Christ with an...

What if you want to build your house upon rock, but it was already built on sand? Many of us have foundations built upon the unstable grounds of sand. It leads to cracks in our walls, windows that won't shut, and uneven flooring. Yet, God is a God of restoration, transformation, and rebuilding.  Let God come in and transform your grainy sand into solid rock, the most perfect Rock, God himself...

We can often find ourselves relating to Psalm 102:2 "Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call" We can feel utterly alone and abandoned by God when we suffer, struggle, and hurt. We can feel as though he has turned away from us, leaving us to drown in the raging seas. Yet, it is precisely in these times that...

Happy New Year! One of my all-time favorite Bible verses has been ringing in my ears for years; "Be Still and Know that I am God " - Psalms 46;10. Yet, this isn't some simple reminder to know who God is, but rather it is a direct command by the King of the World to first BE STILL before we can fully know God.  This week I discuss the word that God has called my heart to focus on thi...

You guys!!! Here we are at episode 100. I am so honored and humbled that God thought I could be worthy of journeying alongside each of you.  This week we talk about an important truth - the truth that MOTHERHOOD IS HEROIC! The venerable Fulton Sheen so profoundly said: “It is well known that women are capable of far more sustained sacrifice than men; a man may be a hero in a crisis, and then slip...

As we near Christmas, I was overwhelmed by the fact that we often miss the opportunity to be captivated by the King of the world. The shepherds and the Magi were all captivated by a tiny baby wrapped in swaddling cloths, but how many people likely passed by the stable without any reverence for the Glory of all that took place in the arms of a virgin and a carpenter? We too have the glory of God se...

Are you weary? Do you feel like your efforts to mother well, or love well, are often a lost effort? When we are deep in the trenches of motherhood, we often can not see the fruit of all of our work. It can feel overwhelming when our days and weeks of disciplining and training up our children run into each other with little realization of the beauty that takes place in our home.  God tells us in Lu...

"But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you." Luke 6:27 This week I sit down with speaker, advocate, author, and friend Jessica Echeverry to discuss the very important topic of forgiveness. Her journey to reach a forgiveness towards those the world would call "unforgiveable" is nothing short of a miraculous grace from God. But how did s...

What do we spend our hours, days, weeks, and lives consuming? Do we allow our hearts to be consumed with the greatness of our Almighty God, or are we preoccupied with finding our value outside of His perfect gaze?  This week I discuss my journey with social media and the calling God has placed on all of our hearts to let him be the only consumable feast that will satisfy our hungry hearts.  I hope...

We are called on a weekly, daily, and minute-by-minute basis, to die to ourselves.  Die to our selfishness, die to our plans, die to our will, and instead become fully alive as God has so wonderfully designed us.  But how we die is the big question! Do we drag our feet, begrudgingly complain, and fall apart at the seams? Or like the leaves in the fall, do we die so beautifully that we glow with th...

This week I have the treat of chatting with the lovely Nell O'Leary of Blessed is She. We discuss the new devotional dedicated to creating connections that last, called Loving God, Loving Others. We chat about relationships, friendships, and the truth that God has known our stories since the beginning of time! I hope this conversation blesses you. Blessed is She https://blessedisshe.net/ Lovi...

This week is a very real and raw episode for me. This episode touches very close to home for me within very intimate and hidden places in my heart. God has revealed so much to me over the last few weeks about the beautiful way in which he tends to the holes, gaps, and deep caverns of wounds and unfulfilled desires that reside in our souls.  I hope this episode blesses and encourages the weary hear...

This week I am so delighted to sit down with my new friend Melissa Dee to discuss the universal call to holiness, the truth that we have ALL been called to sainthood. It can often feel overwhelming or intimidating when we realize that we too, sinful and all, have been called to glorify God through our lives. And yet, most of our saint-making is often done in the hidden places. As Saint Faustina on...

Knowing God and knowing OF God are not the same thing. "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.   On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never kne...

This week I chat with the lovely Lisa Canning, the Possibility Mom, to discuss her journey towards living from the fullness of who God created her to be. For over ten years Lisa ran an interior design company, where hustle and proving her worth by her performance was the norm. But after a life-changing moment in her minivan, Lisa is now helping moms discover God’s plan for their motherhood and the...

This week I speak to the honest reality that - Motherhood is Hard!  But it is precisely through this vocation of sacrifice and self-giving that we become purified and sanctified! Motherhood is a mission field that encompasses the entirety of mankind since as John Paul II beautifully said “the history of EVERY HUMAN BEING passes through the threshold of a woman’s motherhood”  Blessings to you my fr...