Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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The best detox ever!

For me, it’s more like “Die negative thoughts die! Die hate die! Die every single meal plan that demonizes food and calories die! Die body comparisons die! Die fat phobic culture die! Die “New Year, New You” propaganda die! I’m just fine with my good-enough self. Thank you very much. I received an email yesterdayRead the whole post >>

· December 30, 2017 · Tagged With: Body Image, Encouragement for Moms, Getting Past Perfect, Good Enough, Intuitive Eating, spiritual resolutions, Weightless, Women's Issues · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

How to help sparkly child shine without them driving you to the brink of insanity

Sometimes I’ll look around a public place like a grocery store or an airport and I’ll see all these docile children, offering their sibling the last cookie in their snack bag or saying, “Yes, Mommy” when she asks them to hand over her iPhone where the child was quietly practicing her phonics. Meanwhile this isRead the whole post >>

· July 11, 2017 · Tagged With: Attachment Parenting, Encouragement for Moms, Lessons My Kids Teach Me, Love · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Mom’s on TV!

As I mentioned over on Instagram recently, May just might be short for mayhem. The slower pace of summer is just around the corner, but this final sprint is leaving me feeling slightly winded (so is running lately while pushing the baby in my mega jogging stroller). There are beautiful sacraments to be celebrated (myRead the whole post >>

· May 23, 2017 · Tagged With: Encouragement for Moms, EWTN, Getting Past Perfect · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

You will never be this loved

This has been a good week. Busy, yes, but good. My schedule was comfortably full; I was able to get things accomplished without feeling like it was all too much. Of course, there are many days when I feel overextended and over-leveraged. There are moments when everyone needs my woman-power. Littles physically cling to meRead the whole post >>

· May 6, 2017 · Tagged With: Encouragement for Moms, Love · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

This is the way; walk in it

A prompt in my Blessed Is She “Put On Love Lenten Study” this week invited me to include a picture of something that amazes me and to “capture just a little of His great glory.” I immediately knew what I would use to fill that blank space: A photo of my baby, my Charlie, myRead the whole post >>

· April 12, 2017 · Tagged With: Easter, Encouragement for Moms, Spiritual Growth · 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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