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

7 Quick Takes: The “Of Breast & Women,” Discernment, & More Edition

— 1 — Thank you to everyone for your prayers on behalf of my mom. The recovery has been agonizing, but this was expected. My dad sent me a photo of her scar. It’s a nasty and Frankenstein-like. Yesterday I posted a photo of it onto Facebook. The image was really small on my phone,Read the whole post >>

· February 10, 2012 · Tagged With: 7 Quick Takes, Books, Lent, Madeline, Pro-Life, Rachel · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Let’s Talk About Komen (& Why I’m Leaving the BlogHer Network)

I drafted this post last night. I should have published it then because now it seems like pro-lifers such as myself (and many but not all of my readers) are too late, or Planned Parenthood is too much of a bully. I just saw this article. Komen is backing off its decision to defund PlannedRead the whole post >>

· February 3, 2012 · Tagged With: Pro-Life · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

What Does it Mean to Really Be Pro-Life?

Along with a lot of Internet surfers, I recently read this honest and poignant post about a mom who found herself in a “crisis” pregnancy that ended up giving her not only a new life in the form of a baby but a new life to live. (Her follow-up post about why offering a woman’sRead the whole post >>

· April 15, 2011 · Tagged With: Pro-Life · Filed Under: Dignity of Life, Kate's Blog, Pro-life

For the Children

You can read my latest column at the newly-designed Inside Catholic: Up in the Air. I was inspired to write this piece after a long month of traveling with little ones back in the spring. As we navigated crowded, public spaces, I noticed that some people showed obvious disdain as soon as they spotted myRead the whole post >>

· August 28, 2010 · Tagged With: Columns, Encouragement for Moms, Pro-Life · 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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