Episodes — Mamas in Spirit Catholic Podcast and Ministry for Women

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Holy Thursday: A Love So Great It Feels Undeserved

Holy Thursday: A Love So Great It Feels Undeserved

When Jesus told Simon Peter that he was going to wash the disciples’ feet in the Gospel of John, Simon Peter told Jesus that he would never let Jesus wash his feet. Yet once Simon Peter understood that he must let Jesus wash his feet in order to receive his inheritance and be with Jesus eternally, Simon agreed with all his heart.

Simon Peter felt undeserving of the humble act of love and example Jesus offered.

In this week's podcast, Brian and Lindy Wynne share moments in their marriage when they have received love from one another that they have felt undeserving of. Hear how Christ's example has helped Brian and Lindy to create a safe place of vulnerability with one another and, ultimately, discover more fully the meaning of Christ's sacrificial love.

Healing Your Anxiety with Adina Braatz

Healing Your Anxiety with Adina Braatz

Adina Braatz of My Saint My Hero shares about a peak season of anxiety and sleep deprivation that led her to seek help and surrender her life more fully to God. God, in His faithfulness, placed the perfect people and resources in Adina’s path to heal her.

Adina also talks about how trauma in childhood can contribute to the experience of anxiety and need for healing in adulthood.

Adina’s experience with anxiety has blessed her with greater compassion and understanding for others. By sharing her story, Adina wants you to know you are never alone in your suffering and that there are beautiful people and resources to help you heal.

You Don't Have to Check Off Boxes to Be Loved

You Don't Have to Check Off Boxes to Be Loved

Karianna Frey felt like she had to check off boxes and change part of her identity to be truly Catholic and loved. Yet in Adoration God revealed to Karianna that He and His love are so much bigger than the ways we box Him in.

Karianna also explores how we box others in stemming from fear. However, it is in embracing our discomfort and reaching out to people different than us that we grow to learn our interconnectedness as God's human family.

Karianna's newest book is We are Beloved: 30 Days with Thea Bowman.

Religion and SpiritualityLindy WynneMarch 31, 2022Catholic, Podcast, Karianna, Frey, Karianna Frey, women, woman, mother, mothers, mama, Mamas, in, Spirit, Lindy Wynne, Lindy, Wynne, mommas, 30-Days, Thea Bowman, Thea, Bowman, Sister, Saint, loved, loveable, God, Christ, Jesus Christ, Metanoia, Servium Non Serviam, Serviam, Non, The Virtuous Path, The, Virtuous, Path, Morning Devotional, Morning, Devotional, Inspiring, Devotions, to, Start, Your, Day, with, 30 Days with Thea Bowman, Great Spiritual Teachers, Great, Spiritual, Teachers, 30, Days, With, Mamas in SpiritComment

Rekindling My Heart: Returning to the Catholic Church

Rekindling My Heart: Returning to the Catholic Church

Mallory Smyth of Walking with Purpose and author of “Rekindled: How Jesus Called Me Back to the Catholic Church and Set My Heart on Fire,” shares her personal testimony of questioning and later returning to the Catholic Church. Mallory discovered her heart had become ablaze with the love of Jesus, accompanied by a passionate desire to share this love with others.

Mallory and Host Lindy Wynne explore many realities that cause heartache and make it hard to be Catholic, like the sex scandal and youth groups children and teens don’t want to attend.

Explore how you can engage more fully in your own relationship with God and our Catholic Church and encourage your children to fall in love when witnessing your own heart on fire for Jesus.

Healing Your Marriage

Healing Your Marriage

In this Lenten podcast Damon and Melanie Owens of Joyful Ever After share how marriage is a sacrament of healing. Damon and Melanie continue to learn how to give and receive the love and forgiveness that God blesses them with. Marriage is a work in progress and intimate union in which we can learn to love like God.

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Healing Your Shame

Healing Your Shame

In this Lenten podcast Chaplain Father Jon Meyer and Host Lindy Wynne explore how the root of shame is the lie that we are not valuable or worthy. Learn how God will heal your sense of shame, as well as how to reframe your thinking to live in the knowledge of being a daughter of God who loves you beyond compare.

Losing My Sweet Son Beckett with Stephanie Weinert

Losing My Sweet Son Beckett with Stephanie Weinert

In this Lent 2022 Catholic podcast Stephanie Weinert shares the story of her son in Heaven, Beckett. Beckett was unexpectedly diagnosed at birth with Down Syndrome, a heart defect and later lung disease. Stephanie shares how God has spoken to her heart and carried her through this experience, including by whispering Psalm 46:5 into her soul, "God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved."

Religion and SpiritualityLindy WynneMarch 3, 2022Steph, Stephanie, Weinert, Beckett, Down's, Down's Syndrome, Syndrome, Traumatic, Birth, Mother, and, Home, Mamas, in, Spirit, Lindy, Wynne, Catholic, Christian, Podcast, Podcasts, Loss, Death, Child, Son, Baby, Illness, Lindy Wynne, Stephanie Weinert, Community, Sisters, Christ, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Women, mom, moms, mama, mamas, mother, mothers, motherhood, Mary, Marian, Blessed, mini-retreat, retreat, fellowshipComment

A Christmas Special 2021

A Christmas Special 2021

Merry Christmas from Mamas in Spirit! Listen to sweetness, songs and joy from Lindy's daughters in this final podcast from Season 3. New episodes will be released Lent 2022. May God bless you and yours, always!

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3 Small Children and Stage 3 Breast Cancer

3 Small Children and Stage 3 Breast Cancer

In this Advent podcast Kelly Sweeney shares how she was diagnosed with Stage Three Triple Negative Breast Cancer when her three children were all under five years old. Hear how Kelly put her complete trust in God and drew strength to survive her illness by looking into the eyes of her small children.

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My Car is My Home for Christ

My Car is My Home for Christ

Meg Hunter-Kilmer is known as "Hobo for Christ." In this Advent podcast, Meg shares how she was called to live out of her car and travel around the country sharing the gift of Christ. Meg is a renowned Catholic speaker and author of multiple books, including Pray for Us: 75 Saints Who Sinned, Suffered and Struggled on Their Way to Holiness.

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Surrendering to Infertility

Surrendering to Infertility

Jessica found herself sobbing in Saint Monica's Church in New York on her 40th birthday, because she was facing infidelity and infertility. Hear how Jessica surrendered to the Lord's plan for her life and discovered miracles beyond her imagination.

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A Blessed Thanksgiving

A Blessed Thanksgiving

Father Jon Meyer, Chaplain of Mamas in Spirt, joins host Lindy Wynne to explore the true meaning of Thanksgiving.

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His Guardian Angel Woke Me in The Middle of the Night

His Guardian Angel Woke Me in The Middle of the Night

Heidi Hess Saxton was in a life-changing accident when she was eighteen that resulted in infertility. Heidi and her husband later fostered and adopted two children. Heidi shares how her son's guardian angel woke her in the middle of the night to pray for him during a difficult time.

Foster Care at Twelve

Foster Care at Twelve

Anthony Watkins and his brothers were sent to live with their father whom they did not really know after their mother was unable to care for them due to drug addiction. Anthony's father then abandoned the boys at the courthouse and Anthony and his brothers were placed at the Happy Hills Boys Ranch in Tennessee. Hear this moving story from loss, suffering and trauma to healing, hope and redemption.

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His Arrest Was My Rock Bottom

His Arrest Was My Rock Bottom

Tracy Hill shares about the effect of alcoholism on her family. Tracy discovered her rock bottom was the call from her husband telling her that he was arrested due to his drinking. Learn how Tracy surrendered her life to God, let go of trying to control everything and allowed Jesus to transform her heart.

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Focus on Your Faith, Not Your Success

Focus on Your Faith, Not Your Success

Deacon Charlie Echeverry shares about his experience as a spiritual, biological, adoptive, foster and sponsor father. He shares that our journey is not about being successful in any of the roles we play in life, it's about our faithfulness.

Moms, Teenagers and Spiritual Warfare with Nadine Sestich

Moms, Teenagers and Spiritual Warfare with Nadine Sestich

Nadine Sestich shares about a time of heightened spiritual warfare in her family. Nadine explores how it is essential to be aware of how darkness can sneak into the lives of parents and their children to lure them away from God. Mothers must stay vigilant about what they and their children consume and rebuke the devil whenever necessary.

Raised by My Dad

Raised by My Dad

Teri Carpenter shares how her dad became a single father when Teri was five months old and how he is her rock. Teri talks about meeting her mother, facing infertility, becoming a stepmother and coping with her stepson's addiction. Learn about the moment Teri's stepson was miraculously saved and Teri's vibrant faith in Jesus.

Healing Through the Eucharist

Healing Through the Eucharist

Patty Pablos shares her path to prayer, starting when she lost her little brother when she was nine and culminating in her devotion to the Eucharist and prayers over her dying mother.

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Special Needs and a Novena

Special Needs and a Novena

Hilda Bradshaw talks about her experience raising her son with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and clinging to God in prayer, including a novena her grandmother taught her. Hilda shares how raising her son is a blessing and has taught her to completely depend on God, let go of expectations about her children's futures and trust that God will always provide her family with exactly what they need.

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