Girlfriends, episode number 83. What is the Catholic feminist? 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 talking about finding balance in the midst of end of

summer chaos, raising Catholic kids, connecting with girlfriends, and what on earth we mean by

Catholic feminism. It's going to be a good one. Stay tuned. Here we go.

Hey, girlfriends. How are you? Welcome to another episode of the Girlfriends Podcast. I'm happy that you're here. I'm happy to be connecting with you in this way. I'm tired. I'm recording this pretty early in the morning on Monday because I've got a full day, full on day ahead,

and it's just not stopping. I don't know about you, but the end of summer brings its own level of

chaos for me. You know, we kind of get settled into a new normal, which is abnormal, our summer

routine, and then stuff starts creeping in in the month of August. We start thinking a little bit

about school and there's scrambles for that. Some of the school sports are starting up.

And then also there's that feeling like, okay, my big boys are going to be going back to

school and we need to fit everything in all the stuff like we didn't get to

everything right I don't know if you're feeling that way but I am especially this summer because

it's been especially busy I feel like I've been especially distracted this summer with

supporting Dan as he's opening his business which has been great and I was just talking with him

about it last night because it has been great. And I was just talking with him about it last night

because it has been a sacrifice. And I'm trying very hard to not focus on the fact that it's

changed our summer in some negative ways. You know, we never got to the beach this summer. And looking

ahead, I don't think we're going to. I mean, we live at the lake. So, I mean, we have the lake beach.

I'm totally spoiled. But I just mean we didn't get to the ocean together as a family.

Usually we make, you know, at least a couple of trips. It's not far at all to get to the main coast.

But we didn't do that. And I was feeling bad about that. But you know what? It's so dumb because you can choose what to focus on. I can choose

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