Being "Good Enough" with Colleen Duggan

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Colleen Duggan is a wife, mom, friend, and author of the new book Good Enough Is Good Enough: Confessions of an Imperfect Catholic Mom. This week, I'm sharing an encouraging conversation she and I had recently about struggling with perfectionism, wanting to control our kids, and all the ways motherhood pushes us into uncomfortable places of real spiritual and personal growth. I have known Colleen online for years and am a real fan of her work. I just know you are going to enjoy her too! If you enjoy this podcast episode, you may also enjoy Ascension’s study, Momnipotent: Finding Peace, Balance, & Joy in Your Vocation as a Mother and the book, Momnipotent: The Not-So-Perfect Woman’s Guide to Catholic Motherhood.

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 115, being good enough with Colleen Duggan.
0:12.5	Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission
0:18.3	to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace,
0:21.5	balance, and joy in family living. This week, I'm sharing a wonderful conversation I had recently
0:26.8	with mom, girlfriend, and author Colleen Duggan. Let's get started.
0:58.5	Hey, girlfriends. How are you? Welcome to another episode of the Girlfriends Podcast. I'm so happy that you're here. Happy Easter. I hope you had a wonderful Easter Sunday. But I also hope you're continuing to celebrate Easter because it's 50 days long. Yay. We get 40 days of Lent and 50 days of Easter.
1:04.1	So I think that's a pretty sweet deal and I intend to take advantage of it. Mostly I've been taking advantage of it by eating too much sugar. So I'm probably going to try to change that.
1:08.8	I don't recommend that because honestly, I feel like my body feels like it's been abused.
1:14.8	And I guess it's because it has.
1:17.0	It just haven't been eating well.
1:19.0	It's just really bad.
1:20.8	But you know what?
1:21.4	I just, I can't resist those whopper eggs, those robin's eggs.
1:24.7	And I bought a lot of them because I love them, if I'm going to be
1:29.2	honest, for the kids' baskets. So they're all over the place. This is just a really bad scene.
1:35.2	So I need to start getting rid of them in ways other than putting them inside my body
1:40.6	because I'm not feeling great, and I know exactly why. So that's not how I recommend
1:46.5	celebrating Easter for 50 days. One day of that is fine and probably you had a Sunday that was along
1:52.2	those lines. We did too. It was a lot of fun. We went to my parents' house, all of us, except for
1:58.0	my son Ambrose, who's at Ave Maria University down in Florida,
2:01.9	so he wasn't able to be home for Easter.
2:03.9	But he got mailed his Easter basket.
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