Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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Battling Burnout

I’m over at Faith & Family LIVE! today sharing five strategies to help keep your life in balance. Please stop by and share your own tips for beating burnout.

· October 13, 2009 · Tagged With: Burnout, Columns · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

One Thing at a Time

I’m over at Faith & Family LIVE! today marveling at my husband’s remarkable ability to do just one thing at a time. Please stop on by and read “I Cut the Watermelon.”

· October 5, 2009 · Tagged With: Columns · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Tough Love

My latest Inside Catholic column is available: Tough Love.

· September 18, 2009 · Tagged With: Columns · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

The Queen of Maternal Empathy

Whatever sorrows life brings, there is someone who can empathize with you. Through her Seven Sorrows (Catholics celebrate this feast today), Our Blessed Mother reveals herself as a model of faith whom you can always confide in, the one who can stand with you at the foot of whatever cross you’re bearing and say, “I’veRead the whole post >>

· September 15, 2009 · Tagged With: Columns, Mary, Tough Days · Filed Under: Feast Days

Fall Fun

I’m over at Faith & Family LIVE today (and so is Madeline searching for the great pumpkin two years ago) talking about how my family heralds in the fall. Won’t you stop by and share your own ways of savoring this golden season? *I’m not officially (or spiritually) back yet, but things are looking up.Read the whole post >>

· September 10, 2009 · Tagged With: Columns, Crafts, Homemaking · Filed Under: Recipies, Traditions

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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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