143: Sacrificial Love and Adult Caretaking ft. Katie Pyles
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Anger. Shame. Boundaries. These are the parts of care taking we *don’t* often talk about. But the truth is, these are all too common when imperfect people are trying to attempt perfect love. Today’s guest, Katie Pyles, has experience as a caretaker for an adult with special needs, and I'm so grateful she came on the show to share her story. Katie talks about how it isn't our weaknesses that harm relationships, it's the way we deny to acknowledge them or get support for them--that really resonated with me. We discuss what it was like to be a caretaker immediately upon getting married, what Katie wishes she had known before embarking on the journey of care taking, and what's been bringing her closer to God lately. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 143. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we're talking about being an adult caretaker for someone living with special needs. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Every Sacred Sunday for one of their beautiful |
| 0:14.3 | 2020 mass journals head to every sacred Sunday.com. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's episode is also brought to you by Audible. |
| 0:20.8 | For a free audio book go to audible trial.com |
| 0:23.7 | slash Catholic. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be |
| 0:31.4 | informed, inspired, and intentional. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. Hey all this week is hard it's going to be hard for a lot of us to not go to mass on |
| 0:55.5 | Easter. I can't even fathom that. If a few months ago you would have told me that |
| 1:00.2 | we would be having no public mass over Holy Week. |
| 1:03.7 | I would have been shocked and it's really difficult to be honest. |
| 1:07.8 | So what we're trying to do with our family is I think I'm going to try really hard to have one of those tenebray things at home. |
| 1:16.0 | If your church does those, it's really cool. |
| 1:18.0 | You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'll link it in the show notes, but I think we're going to try to do one of those at home. We're going to make |
| 1:24.4 | sure that we are doing the daily readings. We may wash each other's feet on Holy |
| 1:29.4 | Thursday and we also always watch Prince of Egypt on only Thursday. |
| 1:35.4 | Prince of Egypt is like one of my all-time favorite movies. |
| 1:38.3 | Yes, it's a kids movie and no I don't let my kids watch it because my son gets afraid of like the witch in Snow White. |
| 1:46.3 | He would not be able to handle Pharaoh. |
| 1:48.5 | But Chris and I always watch it together. |
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