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Catholic Women Now

Catholic Women Now

Di: Julie Nelson and Chris Magruder
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In an easy going conversational style, hosts Julie Nelson and Chris Magruder speak to what is on the hearts and minds of women as if sharing coffee with friends in a coffee shop. We cover all things in light of the Catholic faith: femininity, faith, family, marriage, dirty diapers, teenagers, empty nesting. Grab your cuppa coffee and join us!2017-2026 Iowa Catholic Radio Arte Catechesi ed evangelismo Cristianesimo Spiritualità
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  • Your Cycle, Your Fiat: Hormone Health & Catholic Faith with Jamie Rathjen - 10/08/2026

    Your Cycle, Your Fiat: Hormone Health & Catholic Faith with Jamie Rathjen - 10/08/2026
    Oct 8 2026
    What if understanding your hormones could bring you closer to God? Julie Nelson and Chris Magruder welcome Jamie Rathjen, fertility care practitioner, certified Creighton Model instructor, and founder of the Fiat Institute, for a faith-filled conversation on women's health, fertility awareness, and the genius of how God designed the female body.In this episode:Jamie's fiat moment: How her University of Northern Iowa master's research on fertility awareness-based methods became her calling, and how the word "fiat" (Mary's yes to the angel Gabriel) came to her in the middle of the nightBeyond NFP: Why cycle charting does more than help you achieve or avoid pregnancy. It also reveals hormone patterns through perimenopause, menopause, and every life stageLow progesterone, explained: Three common root causes (thyroid issues, under-eating or low BMI, and chronic stress) and why addressing them matters for women facing miscarriage and infertilityBio-evangelism: How a couple who came in for natural fertility care, and said up front they didn't believe in God, gave their lives to Christ by the end of their Creighton Model follow-upsTruth that lights people up: After one UNI lecture on the cycle, several students changed their final research papers to the topic with three weeks left in the semesterThe Fiat Institute: Jamie trains and certifies women as hormone coaches who partner with physicians. No nursing degree is requiredTruth, Beauty & Goodness: Chris reflects on surrender and living in the present moment. Julie recommends the Eucharistic adoration docudrama Adore Him: He Is HereBecome a certified hormone coach or find one near you at the Fiat Institute: fiatinstitute.comKeep learning with Jamie on The Hormone Genius Podcast: hormonegenius.comListen to more Catholic Women Now at IowaCatholicRadio.comHashtags#CatholicWomenNow #CatholicWomen #NFP #NaturalFamilyPlanning #CreightonModel #NaProTechnology #HormoneHealth #FertilityAwareness #WomensHealth #Fiat #CatholicPodcast #IowaCatholicRadio Listen Live · Program Schedule · Our StationsLINKSYou can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Tiktok! More on our website.If you would like to support Iowa Catholic Radio you can donate Here! More from Iowa Catholic Radio:Sunday Dive with Katie PatrizioMan Up! with Joe StopulosCatholic Women Now with Chris Magruder and Julie NelsonThe Uncommon Good with Bo Bonner and Dr. Bud MarrBe Not Afraid with Fr. Fabian Moncada and Fr. Bruce RiebeBe Not Afraid en Español con el P. Fabián MoncadaMaking it Personal with Bishop William JoensenFaith and Family Finance with Gregory WaddleThe Great Men of the Bible with Joe Stopulos Liturgy & DevotionsThe Daily Gospel Reflection with Fr. Nick SmithThe Daily Mass from St. Francis of AssisiThe Daily Mass from St. Pius XThe Daily Mass from St. TheresaSunday Mass from the Basilica of Saint JohnWant to support your favorite show? Click Here Iowa Catholic Radio - Connecting People to Christ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • The Catholic Sobriety Coach on Shame, Neuroscience & Healing with Christie Walker – 09/24/2026

    The Catholic Sobriety Coach on Shame, Neuroscience & Healing with Christie Walker – 09/24/2026
    Oct 1 2026
    A testimony that starts in high schoolChristie Walker opens up about believing "the lie as old as time" — that she needed alcohol to belong. What began at teenage parties escalated through her early twenties until a roommate and a boss told her plainly that she was going to lose her job and her home. She pursued outpatient treatment at 22, went back out drinking, and then made the decision that stuck. She has now been alcohol-free for more than 29 years, crediting Alcoholics Anonymous for the mindset shift and the Lord for the healing. Her faith journey and her sobriety journey, she says, run parallel — she couldn't have had one without the other.Called to coach, years before she knew itChristie was sober 25 years before the Holy Spirit prompted her toward coaching. After she began, she found an old journal entry from six years earlier in which she had prayed to help other Catholics who needed encouragement figuring out how to live life without alcohol.The four pillars: faith, neuroscience, inner healing, identityChristie explains why she doesn't start with the drinking behavior. Alcohol misuse, she says, is usually a symptom of something else. The Catholic faith brings the graces of the sacraments. Neuroscience explains what alcohol does to dopamine, serotonin, and the brain — which removes enormous shame when a woman finally understands why her friend can stop at one and she can't. Inner healing addresses the wounds and lies underneath the habit. Identity grounds it all in knowing you are a beloved daughter of God — which reframes God as a loving Father who wants your freedom even more than you do."Wine chatter" and knowing when you've arrivedOne of the most practical segments: Christie describes the internal negotiating that starts around 3:00 in the afternoon — should I, shouldn't I — hours before anyone actually pours a drink. Julie compares it to "food noise" while dieting. Christie's marker for freedom isn't a number of days sober; it's whether you can take alcohol or leave it with peace. Some women need to stop completely. Others can reduce and the noise quiets down. The work is figuring out which one you are.Shame, the sacraments, and the return to the EucharistChristie shares that many clients come to her having avoided confession and the Eucharist for years because of shame. Alcohol isn't evil, she says, but the enemy uses it as a tool. When women return to the sacrament of reconciliation and to Mass, she consistently sees their sobriety and awareness grow by leaps and bounds.Mommy wine cultureChris raises the cultural normalization of wine as the default outlet for overwhelmed young moms. Christie agrees it starts innocently as a buffer and can evolve into feeling trapped.Ways to work with ChristieSacred Sobriety Lab — group coaching plus a self-paced course, available as a one-year or lifetime membership. Women only. Members gain access to all seasonal programs.Seasonal resets (3x per year) — Sober(ish) Summer Reset, Sober(ish) Advent & New Year Reset, and Freedom 46, a journey through Lent.One-on-one coaching — primarily with women, though Christie does coach some men.Find ChristieLearn more at TheCatholicSobrietyCoach.com. She's on social media as @thecatholicsobrietycoach, and hosts The Catholic Sobriety Podcast.Catholic Women Now airs on Iowa Catholic Radio with hosts Julie Nelson and Chris Magruder. More at IowaCatholicRadio.com.#CatholicSobriety #SoberCurious #CatholicWomen #AlcoholFreedom #CatholicPodcast #SobrietyJourney #CatholicFaith #DrinkLess #IowaCatholicRadio #CatholicWomenNow #SoberLiving #FaithAndHealing #InnerHealing #CatholicMoms #Sobriety Listen Live · Program Schedule · Our StationsLINKSYou can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Tiktok! More on our website.If you would like to support Iowa Catholic Radio you can donate Here! More from Iowa Catholic Radio:Sunday Dive with Katie PatrizioMan Up! with Joe StopulosCatholic Women Now with Chris Magruder and Julie NelsonThe Uncommon Good with Bo Bonner and Dr. Bud MarrBe Not Afraid with Fr. Fabian Moncada and Fr. Bruce RiebeBe Not Afraid en Español con el P. Fabián MoncadaMaking it Personal with Bishop William JoensenFaith and Family Finance with Gregory WaddleThe Great Men of the Bible with Joe Stopulos Liturgy & DevotionsThe Daily Gospel Reflection with Fr. Nick SmithThe Daily Mass from St. Francis of AssisiThe Daily Mass from St. Pius XThe Daily Mass from St. TheresaSunday Mass from the Basilica of Saint JohnWant to support your favorite show? Click Here Iowa Catholic Radio - Connecting People to Christ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • Prayer, Work, Play and Rest: A Practical Guide to Temperance with Chris Magruder - 09/17/2026

    Prayer, Work, Play and Rest: A Practical Guide to Temperance with Chris Magruder - 09/17/2026
    Sep 17 2026
    What temperance actually isJulie Nelson opens by admitting her first mental image of temperance was a fire-and-brimstone preacher dumping cigarettes and liquor into the river. Chris Magruder says that's exactly the misunderstanding worth correcting. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1809) describes temperance as the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures, provides balance in the use of created goods, and ensures the will's mastery over instincts. It is one of the four cardinal virtues alongside prudence, fortitude and justice. Chris points to a helpful image from the Catholic Diocese of Tyler: temperance works like a thermostat — too far one direction and it's too hot, too far the other and it's too cold. The goal is the right measure, not elimination.Temperance in ScriptureThe word itself doesn't appear the way listeners might expect. In the Old Testament, Chris notes, the language is about restraining appetites and avoiding base desires. In the New Testament, it shows up as moderation and sobriety. The virtue is there throughout, even when the vocabulary isn't.Saint Francis de Sales on moderation and identityChris highlights Saint Francis de Sales, known for gentleness, wisdom and guiding souls toward a balanced spiritual life. His advice: do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Chris connects it to identity as a child of God — she was made perfectly to be Chris Magruder, not Julie Nelson — and says there is real freedom in that. For deeper reading, she recommends Part III of his classic work Introduction to the Devout Life.A temperance inventory: where is this showing up in your life?Chris originally gave this talk with a 17-question self-examination. She walks through several of them on air, asking listeners whether they've done these things, been on the receiving end of them, or both:Blurting — speaking without thinking and embarrassing yourself or othersDisciplining children loudly in publicDisrespecting a spouse in front of other peopleArguing in front of others, which makes everyone in the room uncomfortableOvereating, especially sugarOverspending and over-shoppingUnchaste behavior inside or outside of marriageVideo games, technology and social media overuseOver-napping as avoidance, over-exercising, over-drinkingLiving for what other people think instead of what God thinksHer point: even good things can be overindulged, including relationships, ministry and rest. The question is always whether it is balanced."He's been trying to teach me temperance for years"Chris shares personal stories with real candor. A sixth-grade contest at Camp Foster in Okoboji, Iowa, that she won by staying silent the longest — and how taming her tongue has been a lifelong lesson since. A recent conversation with a friend she hadn't seen in twenty years, where curiosity got ahead of charity and she blurted out a question about a divorce, then went back and apologized. A situation years ago where she approached two mothers directly about their fourth-grade sons and pornography, and it bore no fruit — versus a later situation where she prayed for two weeks first, and the Lord directed her to have her husband speak to the other father. That one worked beautifully. Her takeaway: pray first. Even a quick "Lord, bind my tongue" in the moment reorients the heart.When the good things become the imbalanceChris also describes a season of saying yes to everything at church — until the Lord told her to go home. Her body was home but her mind and phone were still at the parish. She wasn't greeting her husband at the door or listening to her kids. Balance, she says, applies even to holy work: it's all good, but what are you actually called to?Practical exercises to grow in temperanceGet your priorities in order. God first, then spouse, then children, then everyone and everything else. Ask at the end of the day: who am I trying to please?Audit your calendar. Does your time reflect those priorities? Is there balance among prayer, work, play and rest? All four matter."Future with God" instead of catastrophizing. Rather than spiraling — if I lose my job, then we lose the house, then — pray forward with God: what doors could He open, who might you meet, how might your faith grow?Sit in gratitude. Count your blessings instead of sheep. Remembering God's past faithfulness quiets fear about the future.Pray the centering prayer. "Lord God, help me stay in the center of your will." He gently corrects when we drift.Go to the sacraments. Chris calls Reconciliation and the Eucharist the two great gifts that restore balance — spiritually and physically.An emotional control exercise for children (and adults)For a child in the middle of a meltdown: pause and pray "Come, Holy Spirit." Get eye contact — "look at me." Name the emotion for them. Offer a stuffed animal to hug if they need to discharge energy. Breathe in for four seconds, out for four seconds. Once they're...
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