Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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{If you also subscribe to my newsletter, I apologize that this will be a repeat!}  The Catholic Moms Summit is going strong and has brought together tens of thousands of moms from all over the world for the biggest gathering of its kind EVER. It’s been an amazing experience so far! If you haven’t registeredRead the whole post >>

· November 14, 2020 · Tagged With: Anxiety, Body Image, Depression, Encouragement for Moms, Getting Past Perfect, Weightless · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Let’s talk about anxiety and depression

Do I have your attention now? I frequently find random videos and images created by some quirky kid on my camera roll. This one cracked me up because there’s still a limit on how much TP we can pick up at our local grocery store, and what’s crazy to me is some single college kidRead the whole post >>

· September 25, 2020 · Tagged With: Anxiety, Attachment Parenting, Depression, Encouragement for Moms, Faith Inspiration, Getting Past Perfect, Motherhood, Tough Days · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Global Prayer Challenge for Moms, July 18-24

Recently, Delphine Ang, a passionate Catholic mother in the Philippines, reached out to me about joining a global prayer challenge for moms. We had the opportunity to Zoom and chat about our own mothering journeys as well as our prayer lives.  Here we were – two different moms oceans apart with unique mothering challenges; yet, we discoveredRead the whole post >>

· July 12, 2020 · Tagged With: Getting Past Perfect, Motherhood, Prayers, Speaking · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Running my own race

I’ll never forget the first time I ran six consecutive miles. I was 14 and I’d been running a three-mile loop all summerlong, several times a week. One morning I headed out to the park across my street, and I broke into a run. The sky was a steely grey and before long sheets ofRead the whole post >>

· November 20, 2019 · Tagged With: Body Image, Eating Disorders, Getting Past Perfect, Running, Spiritual Growth, Weightless · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

A change of running (and living) plans

So often when I discuss body image, I relate it to how we see ourselves aesthetically and physically. We look in the mirror and all we see are the dimples, the flabby stomach, the weak arms, or the extra skin. We see a photo of us, and we can’t stand how we look in it.Read the whole post >>

· June 14, 2019 · Tagged With: Body Image, Eating Disorders, Getting Past Perfect, Lessons Kids Teach Me, Running, Trust, Weightless · 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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