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This time of year the world is exploding with cheer, lights, cookies, and togetherness—but sometimes, when everyone else is celebrating, you feel like you’re barely breathing. Advent is supposed to be joyful, right? A beautiful season of anticipation, hope, and peace. But for many of us, this season is marked more by absence than abundance. […]
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We’ve all been there. You’re trying to get everyone out the door for a family gathering. The diaper bag is half-packed. One shoe has been located, the other is definitely in the fridge for reasons unknown. Someone is yelling because their socks feel “spicy.” Someone else is crying because their sibling is not touching them […]
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We’ve all been there. You’re trying to get everyone out the door for a family gathering. The diaper bag is half-packed. One shoe has been located, the other is definitely in the fridge for reasons unknown. Someone is yelling because their socks feel “spicy.” Someone else is crying because their sibling is not touching them […]
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The Call of Sorrow The first time I met death, it was small enough to fit in my hands. I was in middle school, playing outside of our house, when I came upon a baby bird on the ground. It was so incredibly small—matchstick bones, feathers as fragile as glass. I searched all around for […]
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The Call of Sorrow The first time I met death, it was small enough to fit in my hands. I was in middle school, playing outside of our house, when I came upon a baby bird on the ground. It was so incredibly small—matchstick bones, feathers as fragile as glass. I searched all around for […]
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We're the moms behind Marian Mindset! Both of us became mothers before we felt ready for the gift of motherhood—Olivia at 17 with an unexpected pregnancy, and Hannah with surprise twins after being told she couldn’t have children. For years we struggled—yelling, threatening, and feeling like we were being punished.
But we also had the sense that motherhood wasn't meant to be like this; that God didn’t design motherhood to be a cross. Through His providence, we discovered mindset work, a practice rooted deep in Sacred Scripture and Tradition dating back to the early Church. And that work changed everything...
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