6 Ways to Support Your Husband as a Spiritual Leader

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

I offer six different ways every wife can support her husbands to be the spiritual leaders in the home and community: Think about what you want. Consider what you want from your husband and then ask yourself, “Is it fair and reasonable to ask this of him?” Recognize what he is already doing. There are many different ways of being a “spiritual leader.” Recognize and appreciate the things he is already doing right. *Don’t boss him. *This is ugly. Don’t boss or try to bully him into being the person you wish he would be. Give him room to be a husband and father, by focusing on the ways in which you are called to be a wife and mother. Figure out what is getting in the way. Is he tired? Are the kids misbehaving? Does he have no time? Find out what the obstacles are so that you can help with them. Find out what his goals are. Ask him about his spiritual goals for himself and for your family. Think of ways to help him meet those goals and offer your support. Do your own stuff. You have spiritual goals and you are called to be a spiritual leader as a wife and mom. Focus on what you can do, and then just do it! "Sometimes we women want to make spiritual leadership what WE want it to be. That’s actually dumb because what our husbands bring to the table is a completely different perspective, different skill set, different temperament, different preferences, different strengths, different focuses. That’s a beautiful gift to you and your family."

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 140, six ways to support your husband as a spiritual leader.
0:09.8	Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. Today, we're
0:22.7	talking about ways that you can support your husband in his spiritual leadership. I can't wait to
0:27.8	get started. Let's go. Hey, girlfriends. How are you? Thanks for being here. Thank you for joining me for another
0:43.1	episode of the Girlfriend's podcast. You know I'm always glad when we can connect here.
0:48.0	Today, I'm feeling like I'm playing catch up, I guess, because I am. I'm running behind.
0:53.7	I usually record these episodes a week early,
0:56.3	and it's not really going to be that this time. So like SpongeBob would say, I'm late for being
1:01.6	early, and that's not a good feeling. But anyway, I'm playing catch up because of my recent trip to Texas.
1:07.0	I went to Sugar Land. I was at St. Lawrence Parish there, gave three different talks.
1:10.9	Was a wonderful experience, except for the fact that I was fighting a headache for most of the time
1:16.9	that I was there. And, but I feel fully recovered now. And I'm really thrilled with the fact that I
1:23.1	got to meet a lot of people. Some listeners of the podcast, hey, how are you? Thanks for being there,
1:29.1	you guys. And some people that have worked with through writing, through Catholic Digest,
1:33.4	through Catholic Mom, really always wonderful to have that opportunity to make real-life connections.
1:40.6	And I do that when I go speak at places. I do that when I'm invited to speak at a conference.
1:45.2	I do it when I'm invited to speak at a retreat to do my own Your Worth It retreat at various places.
1:52.3	So if you're interested in finding out about bringing me to your community like I did in Sugar Land and like I'll be doing upcoming soon in Providence, the beginning of October.
2:02.3	You can reach me through my website and you can get more information about both my
2:06.1	Your Worth It Day Retreats for Women, which is a total put-together program that I come and put on
2:11.1	in your community.
2:12.7	But if you just want to invite me to come speak at an event that you're already hosting, perhaps
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