How to Thrive When Life Changes

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Snippet From the Show “Look for the good. Even when you are going through something very hard, there is always good. God works all things together for our good.” Feel your feelings. It’s important to be honest about how you are feeling and really process all that you are experiencing. Give yourself grace. Be gentle with yourself and allow yourself the time and space you need to adjust to new things. Focus on the good. Look for the good things that are happening in your life or the blessings you are experiencing as a result of change. Give thanks. Pause, reflect, give thanks for what you have been given, and then let go –meaning give everything over to God. Pray. If you are struggling to adjust to something new, ask God “What now?” or “What next?” Ask Him to reveal His plan for your life right now. At the end of the show, Danielle answers a question from Meghan who feels out of place in her parish community and wonders if she should leave. For episode shownotes visit www.goodcatholic.com.

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 387. How to Thrive When Life Changes.
0:07.8	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 and family living.
0:17.1	This week we're talking about big changes in life and how you can thrive instead of just survive. This is an important topic, and I can't wait to get started.
0:30.7	Okay, so today we're going to be talking about how to thrive when life changes.
0:40.8	I'm thinking about this because we've just been through this season, and we're still in it, many of us, this kind of back-to-school season. I used to call it
0:46.8	the goodbye season. I still call it the goodbye season, especially once I had kids who were grown
0:50.9	and going away to college. It just kind of became the goodbye season to me.
0:54.5	And I became aware of the fact that so many people are going through a lot of emotional stuff
1:00.4	this time of year, where people are making big changes in their lives. People are saying goodbye to
1:06.5	big kids going away to school or starting jobs or joining the military or starting kindergarten for
1:13.6	the first time. You know, this is a time of change. And that can be difficult. I can really feel
1:19.6	it in the air every year around this time that life is hard for people. People are going through
1:24.8	big changes and often changes for the good, but that still can be a
1:28.5	difficult thing to process, especially for us as parents. As we watch our kids kind of go through
1:33.9	these milestones, as we move through different stages of family life, as beautiful as that can be,
1:41.0	it is sometimes challenging for us to kind of get our bearings in a new stage of life.
1:46.0	So I want to talk about that a little bit. So years ago when my first son went away to college,
1:51.4	my oldest daughter commuted to college, so we kind of got a pass at first. But when my oldest
1:56.5	son went away to college, I just didn't even know how to handle those feelings. And I remember going
2:02.0	like online and looking for like resources, people who might be sharing about kind of making that
2:06.7	transition as a mom. And I found so little. There really wasn't a lot out there for that stage of
2:14.1	life, at least from a Catholic perspective. So that kind of prompted me back then to think
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