Offer It Up! What That Means and How to Do It
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week we sit down with Catholic author, speaker, and veteran Megan Hjelmstad for a powerful conversation about suffering, hope, and the redemptive power of “offering it up.” Together, we unpack this often misunderstood Catholic phrase and explore what it really means to unite our suffering with Christ—both in the everyday struggles and the life-changing trials.
Learn more about the book: https://stpaulcenter.com/store/offer-it-up-discovering-the-power-and-purpose-of-redemptive-suffering
Whether you’re carrying a heavy cross or just facing daily frustrations, this episode will leave you feeling encouraged, understood, and spiritually equipped.
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, episode number 470. Offer It Up, what that means and how to do it. |
| 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 |
| 0:14.6 | help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in everyday living. |
| 0:19.5 | This week, our special guest is author |
| 0:21.3 | Megan Helmsted, who's going to be talking about her new book, Offer It Up. We're going to talk |
| 0:25.1 | about redemptive suffering. Always an important conversation. Let's get started. |
| 0:32.9 | Hey, girlfriend. How are you? Thank you so much for showing up for the newest episode of the Girlfriends Podcast. I am so thrilled you are here. And you know what? At a couple of recent in-person events, I have been thrilled to meet some Girlfriend's Listeners in real life. I always share that when I meet podcast listeners in real life, it's like we're instant friends. I know they understand it. They often |
| 0:54.3 | remember stories that I've told on the podcast years ago that I've forgotten that I shared. |
| 0:58.6 | So you guys know more about me than maybe I even know about myself at this point. So I'm always |
| 1:03.0 | thrilled to meet people in person. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because I would love |
| 1:07.2 | to meet you in person. Something that happened recently just reminded me of the value of reaching out to you and reminding |
| 1:13.5 | all of you that I do these in-person events. |
| 1:15.5 | So years ago, I began promoting these personalized retreats that I do that are based around |
| 1:22.0 | themes in my books, You're Worth It and You Are Enough. |
| 1:25.8 | And it's an ongoing theme here on the podcast where I was |
| 1:28.4 | talking about these events and sharing with you where I would be. And I just got out of the |
| 1:32.6 | habit of doing that. And just recently, maybe it was like four episodes ago, I shared just a little |
| 1:38.7 | promotion for my retreats and for the different in-person events that I do, different kinds of speaking, |
| 1:44.6 | encourage people to reach out if they'd like me to come to their event. And lo and behold, |
| 1:48.5 | I heard from several people very soon after, and one of them actually is working out very soon. |
| 1:54.1 | I'm going to be going to Chicago. There's a listener there whose husband is working for their |
| 1:59.5 | parish and they've got this 40-hour |
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