Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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A Space of Your Own

Join me over at Faith & Family LIVE! where I’m sharing tips on how to carve out a simple sanctuary in your home  – something I’m so glad I did in our new home. See you over there. Have a good week.

· August 16, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns, Homemaking · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Catholic News Agency Launches New Site for Women

Exciting news! The Catholic News Agency has launched  a new site dedicated to women where you’ll get a daily dose of reflections on faith and living. The Phases of Womanhood site inspired the CNA’s Catholic Womanhood resource. From today’s big announcement: “Catholic Womanhood is a place for women of faith to consider and discuss issuesRead the whole post >>

· August 9, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns · Filed Under: Catholic Carnival

Detachment Parenting

You can read my latest column at Inside Catholic: Detachment Parenting: Learning to Let Go. Comments are open over there and as always, I love hearing your thoughts. (Even though I have my older brother’s blessing to write about his and our family’s dark years, this wasn’t an easy one to write.)

· July 16, 2010 · Tagged With: Attachment Parenting, Columns, Spiritual Growth · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Searching for Rabbits

I wrote this column weeks ago, but it was a good reminder for me during a challenging week. An excerpt: “I’m tempted to see my maternal missteps as global pronouncements of my failure to nurture my children right. But my children see no such thing. They forgive and they forget. Their mercy pours down onRead the whole post >>

· July 14, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns, Encouragement for Moms, Tough Days · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

8 Ways to Be a Fit Mom

I’m over at Faith & Family LIVE today sharing tips on how to be a fit mom. You’ll have to forgive another mention of my long-distance running days. I didn’t realize both running-related references would appear in the same week, but clearly I’m pining for those long runs and feel like I have to remindRead the whole post >>

· July 1, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns, Fitness, Health · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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