Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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Why I might have chosen the child-free life

During a recent radio interview with EWTN’s Sonrise Morning Show, we discussed how body image plays a role in keeping women from embracing pregnancy and becoming mothers. Our culture definitely perpetuates the whole I-don’t-want-to-do-that-to-my-body – “that” being pregnancy, otherwise known as granting your stomach and bum their very own zip codes and saying sayonara toRead the whole post >>

· September 27, 2013 · Tagged With: Hope, Lessons Kids Teach Me, Motherhood, Pro-Life · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

I need me some rose-colored glasses

The kids and I met my mom for lunch the other day. My 5-year-old was still noshing on her macaroni and cheese (she’s a very mindful and subsequently ssslllloooowwww eater), but Thomas the Todzilla (my name for our super-cute but super-destructive toddler) was getting antsy, so I took him and my 4-year-old outside. They wereRead the whole post >>

· May 20, 2013 · Tagged With: Faith Inspiration, Hope, Joy · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Comic relief and hope in a “haze of TMI”

My kids have sensed that something big that is outside of them and outside of our home is going on right now. Not only is Mommy suddenly spending more time online again (tsk, tsk), but she and Daddy, she and the babysitter, she and her Gaba, she and her Nana, she and her brother, sheRead the whole post >>

· October 29, 2012 · Tagged With: Hope, Lessons My Kids Teach Me · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

SHINE!

A draft of this post may have popped up in your inbox if you subscribe via email or in your reader, but it was a glitch. This is the real thing. Sorry about that! A beautiful, ambitious friend of mine started an amazing online ministry called SHINE Girls that encourages women to savor the WordRead the whole post >>

· May 30, 2012 · Tagged With: Body Image, Eating Disorders, Hope · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

A Good Friday Reflection

This hasn’t been the greatest Lent. That’s an understatement, actually.  In all honesty, I feel like an epic failure. I set the bar low, and I still couldn’t meet any of my spiritual goals. Yet in spite of me and my failings, Easter will come. In the face of my sins and my foibles, thereRead the whole post >>

· April 6, 2012 · Tagged With: Hope, Lent, Mary, Suffering, Tough Days · 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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