How Fasting Can Help Your Marriage (with Colleen Duggan)

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Author Colleen Duggan joins us for today’s show, sharing about some of the surprising ways that the practice of fasting has blessed her marriage. We have talked about some of the spiritual benefits of fasting before, but Colleen is passionate about its strength as a spiritual tool specifically for marriage. At the end of today’s show, I shared a little bit of feedback from Katherine, a listener who has a son who was born without an immune system. She shares these quick tips for social distancing as a family. Snippet From the Show "The emptying makes us realize the abundant life that we have." For episode shownotes, text GIRLFRIENDS to 33-777 or visit AscensionPress.com (media.ascensionpress.com).

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 216, How Fasting Can Help Your Marriage with Colleen.
0:09.6	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,
0:21.5	and joy in family living.
0:23.1	This week, we are talking with author and my friend Colleen Duggan about how fasting can improve
0:28.7	your marriage.
0:29.4	Are you ready for this?
0:30.2	Let's go.
0:39.0	Hello, girlfriends.
0:42.1	Thanks for showing up for another episode of the Girlfriend's podcast.
0:43.9	Always glad to connect with you here.
0:48.0	If you are a first time listener to the Girlfriend's podcast, I want to give you a special welcome.
0:49.5	Thanks for checking us out.
0:53.2	I hope you're going to enjoy what we share here and come back for more. If you're a long time listener or
0:55.0	a sometimes listener, welcome back. Always glad to connect with you here. How's your quarantine going?
1:01.5	We've got to check in about this before we get started with today's topic, right? How's it going?
1:06.2	How's your work life? How's your kids' school schedule? Are you adjusted yet? Are you doing okay? I've been
1:13.4	checking in on Facebook live with Catholic mom, the Catholic mom Facebook page a few different times
1:19.6	a week, just checking in for five or ten minutes and just connecting with people and seeing how
1:24.0	you're doing because this is a big adjustment for a lot of people. And I think
1:28.5	it's okay for us to connect with each other in all the digital ways that we're able to, staying
1:32.2	six plus feet apart while we are connecting. Podcasts are a great way to do that. But then also
1:39.0	sometimes during the week, it's nice to have opportunities to reconnect, maybe just see a friendly face. I know some of you
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