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I'm Janet Quinlan, a Catholic life coach, and this is Finding Joy in Marriage and Motherhood - a podcast for women who want peace and joy in their marriage and motherhood. I'll help you create mindset shifts that change the way you discipline your children, love your husband, and enjoy your day. This podcast is about coaching women to be the best woman God is calling her to be. I'm a former elementary school teacher and homeschooler, a wife of 39 years, mother of 7, and "Grandma Jan" to 18 g ...
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In today's episode, I talk about why putting your spouse first is one of the best things you can do for your marriage. Many people prioritize their children, work, friends, or extended family over their spouse, but here’s the truth: a strong marriage is the foundation of a strong family, more personal fulfillment, and a deeper, long-lasting relatio…
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It's so easy to find faults in our spouse and blame them for any and all our marriage issues. But, the truth is, we each have strengths and weaknesses that we bring to the marriage. Rather than blaming our spouse for our troubles, let's look (bravely) at where we contribute to our marriage issues. Once we see where we contribute, we can begin to ma…
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As we begin Lent, here are six steps that you can use to grow closer to God as you live your vocation to marriage and motherhood. We don't need to do extraordinary things in life to have a deep faith and love in Jesus Christ. We simply need to connect daily in a few different ways. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management…
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Listen in as I'm interviewed by my daughter, Mary Grace, for the Fairest Love Podcast Show. We talk about what's really important in building a lasting relationship with your children. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching…
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Listen is as I'm interviewed by Jordan Langdon for the "Families of Character" podcast show. Jordan and I talk about essential skills to create a strong marriage which creates the foundation for a happy family life. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram…
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Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching由Janet Quinlan
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I was in Chicago last week-end speaking at the Midwest Motherhood Conference - it was amazing! We laughed and cried and connected with so many friends and made new friends – the atmosphere was electric and I was so honored to speak to all these women. At this conference we had young women – some pregnant with their first, some pregnant with their 3…
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Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching由Janet Quinlan
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We get so busy in our lives that we forget we're here to do God's will. We should periodically ask ourselves, "What is God asking of me?" This episode is a replay of an episode I recorded 1 1/2 yrs. ago. I think we should revisit this episode every 6 months or so. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/m…
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So, what do you really want to achieve in 2025? Lose 10 lbs ( or 20?)? Workout 3 times a week? Read a book each month? While all those New Year's resolutions are important, what if 2025 could be the year you create that family life you really want? More connection and a deepening friendship with your husband Children who are happy and cooperative A…
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When you're a mom or grandma there are so many "things" we think we need to do to celebrate Christmas. In this episode I'm reminding myself and you what the most important and cherished gift is that we can give ourselves and our family. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com F…
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And in learning how to nurture my interior life, I learned how to find peace – peace when life and relationships were good and peace when chaos was the order of the day. In the Gospel of Matthew we read, "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” I wasn’t going to God – I was carrying all the labor and burden of my …
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We need to teach our children to have clear values of what’s really important in life and satisfying their desires all the time is not it. We need to help our children see that we’re not here in this world to think constantly about what will make us happy and satisfy all our whims. Let’s teach our kids that things of the world are here to enhance o…
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The mind finds what it seeks. When we’re focused on all the contradictions or negative parts of our life it is impossible to feel joy. But when we’re focused on all that we’re thankful for, our heart softens, and we can find the joy. Living in gratitude is a habit to embrace. It’s not just one day on Thanksgiving or when special happy events happen…
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Family traditions strengthen family bonds and create a sense of belonging. They also create a sense of predictability which heightens the anticipation of the experience. In creating family traditions we can pass on our cultural heritage as well as our values and our faith. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and fai…
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To begin preparing for the holidays, first ask yourself, "How do I want to feel during and after the holidays?" Once you decide how you want to feel, then identify the actions you'll need to take in order to feel that feelings. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me …
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Through the years, I have coached, interviewed, and reached out to people to ask for their experiences with their daughter-in-law or mother-in-law and, quite frankly, it makes me sad. The responses I have gotten are 99% negative about their relationship with their in-law. Why is that? Why are there such issues between two women who love the same ma…
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry." Really? In this episode I talk about the power of saying, "I'm sorry" - how it can change the course of a relationship AND change you as a person. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching…
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The #1 block for so many women I speak with in attaining joy and fulfillment in their marriage and their motherhood is that they aren’t consistent. They aren’t consistent in their faith life, showing up in their marriage or in the way they want to parent or in the creating and maintaining of their home. This episode explains why consistency is so i…
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Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching由Janet Quinlan
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So many of us think we don't have time to have order. But the opposite is actually true. The more we have order in our home, our schedule, and our family life, the less overwhelmed and stressed we feel and have more time to actually enjoy our family life! Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at…
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Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching由Janet Quinlan
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Our self-image affects the the way we show up in our marriage, the way we parent our children, the way we keep our home, and ultimately, how happy and confident we are in our life. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching…
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Habits and routines help us define the day and move through it smoothly – without added stress of what to do next. On the flip side, it can be a drawback if we’re so bound to the habit or routine that we make life unpleasant when it isn’t achieved. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetq…
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Many new parenting styles create an imbalance in the child/parent relationship. When we adopt a parenting style that is child-led and emotion driven, we do a disservice to our children by hyper focusing on how they feel and what they want rather than teaching them how to think and how to feel and express their feelings in an appropriate way while l…
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New crayons, new backpacks, a special breakfast for the first day of school - these often accompany a new year as our children go back to school. But…whether you see it or not, whether your children say it or not – and they probably won’t – here’s what they really want and need for success in school and in life. Check out my free resources on marri…
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This episode airs on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, the Mother of Jesus – when Mary was taken up into heaven to be with her son. And so while so many moms in my audience are going through the chaos of back-to-school, I thought I’d record this episode as a reminder to all of us, that we have in Mary, the mother of Jesus, the perfect role model…
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I think it’s important to see the cultural shifts that affect our families. Shifts in what used to be some issues for a few, now are so common place that EVERYONE suffers or deals with them. Serious issues are now considered normal or easily accepted and have become commonplace in our families. As soon as we make something common place – something …
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School success for your children depends on what happens inside the classroom AND outside the classroom. In this replay episode I talk about the most important habits to teach your children so they can love school and achieve all they're meant to achieve. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at…
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As Michael and I celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, and as our 2nd daughter gets married, I had an opportunity to reflect on what really makes a great marriage. This episode talks about the #1 secret to great marriages. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on …
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One of the biggest problems we have is that we have "dreams" or "expectations" about how our life, relationships, the behavior of our children, and our home culture should be. They're just fantasies with no clear actions to create them. Setting goals helps us act in the here and now to create the life we really want. Check out my free resources on …
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Whatever form "evil" takes in your life - sadness, anger, unmet expectations, St. Josemaria's advice to "Drown Evil in an Abundance of Good" works! Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching…
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We seem to always want to attack or find fault with people – with ourselves, with our husband, our children, our parents or in-laws. But if we take the “personal” away from assessing the situation, it’s so much more neutral. And when a situation is neutralized, we can let go of the flight or flight emotions we have and we can actually find solution…
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You can find my parenting course, "Virtue-Based Parenting" at janetquinlan.com/parentingcourse Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching由Janet Quinlan
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In this episode, I explore the dangers of labeling our children. As parents, when we label a child that label becomes a part of his or her identity because they look to us to know themselves - we box them into a specific behavior rather than helping them explore all parts of themselves. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home manag…
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The first step in creating your best summer for yourself and your family is to decide the results ahead of time. In this episode, I teach you key routines to have in your home that will create a general structure for your family life, while also giving freedom for lots of play. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, an…
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Who are you as a wife and mother? When you die, what do you want your husband and children to say about you? It's important to think about whether or not we're showing up in the world and in our family as we'd like to be remembered. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follo…
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Why did you want to become a mother? I don't think many of us ask ourselves that question. It's just a rite of passage for many. And yet, the enormity of raising humans is an endeavor that forces us to identify our "Why". If not, we won't enjoy the process nor will we reap the benefits of sacrificial love. Check out my free resources on marriage, p…
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Many different people have expressed this thought - you become who you surround yourself with. We taught this concept to our children as they were growing up and choosing friends. However, it isn’t just for our children and the friends they choose. It’s for all of us in many different ways. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home m…
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Did my motherhood shape my faith, or rather, did my faith shape my motherhood? I’m not sure I have the answer, but after that retreat when I understood that I wasn’t just marking time here, that I had a mission from God, I knew that when I embraced my vocation with a joy and fervor I had not done before, vocation and faith worked together to change…
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Self-care has gotten a bad rap, and I think that’s because we’ve blurred the lines of self-care and over-indulgence. We can’t live in either extreme – putting yourself so last that you’re not even on your list nor putting yourself 1st all the time to please all your whims and desires so that all you think about is yourself. So, let’s look at self-c…
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Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching由Janet Quinlan
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How do you find joy in motherhood or in your marriage? It's not by depending on yourself or expecting that your children will be perfect. We find hope and joy by seeking it. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching…
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Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching由Janet Quinlan
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Part of forming a family of your own is figuring out how to be in relationship with your spouse's family of origin. This episode is from "Fairest Love" Podcast where I was interviewed on how to accept and embrace the "in-law" relationship - from both sides! Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset …
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Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching由Janet Quinlan
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Our brain and it’s job to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy is what creates the feeling of resistance - the force against the change or thing we need or want to do. And we need to just identify it that way – notice it, name it, find a way to move through it. Saying to ourselves, "Oh, this is just my brain resisting, but my brain doesn’…
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How do we express our love for our spouse? Do we wait until Valentine's Day and do what the world tells us - cards, flowers, and candy or is there a deeper, more meaningful way that love requires expression? Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetq…
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I was thinking about what episode 200 could look like and I decided to keep it simple. My marriage probably isn’t much different than most of yours. We started off with rose colored marriage glasses and then the struggles came – and we had many. And they were serious and didn’t resolve quickly - probably just like your marriage. My children aren’t …
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Sibling rivalry is jealousy, competition and or fighting between brothers and sisters. Some experts say that sibling rivalry comes from children competing for their parent’s love. Others say the children's goal is to get their parent’s attention. Whether it’s about love or attention it’s ultimately about competition. Check out my free resources on …
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