The holidays have a way of exposing what we’ve been holding together by sheer force.

If you’ve ever thought, “I should be enjoying this, but I’m exhausted, irritable, and counting the days until it’s over or the kids go to bed,” this episode is for you.

In today’s conversation, I explore why so many capable, faith-filled women feel emotionally undone during the holiday and why the problem is not gratitude, discipline, or spiritual failure.

We talk about:

• Why holiday stress hits women who “normally handle everything”

• What your nervous system is actually responding to this time of year

• The theological difference between peace and performance

• How Jesus restores order, not by adding more effort, but by rebuilding foundations

• Why trying to “be joyful” often backfires and what works instead

Connect with Brigid

• www.loretowellness.com

• Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here

• Take the FREE Quiz to see how your birth is still affecting you → [Link]

• Instagram: @brigidtebaldi

In this contemplative episode, Brigid explores the profound mystery of the Holy House of Loreto and what it reveals about the modern mother whose interior world has been shaken by birth trauma, medical intervention, chronic stress, or seasons of overwhelm. Drawing from Catholic theology, physiology, and years of working with mothers navigating trauma recovery, Brigid offers a deeply integrated reflection on what happens inside a woman when her “interior house” is displaced and how God begins the work of rebuilding her from within.

You will learn:

• The story of the Holy House and why its displacement mirrors the experience of trauma
• How unseen physiological shifts, especially in dopamine, oxytocin, cortisol, and the stress response, shape a woman’s interior landscape
• Why a dysregulated nervous system affects prayer, joy, identity, and a sense of connection
• How Mary, as Cause of Our Joy, enters the parts of the person that feel fractured
• Why true healing honors both the spiritual and physical architecture of the woman
• The theological truth that God rebuilds from within, not from the surface
• How integrated restoration can help a woman finally feel at home in her own body and life again

Connect with Brigid

• www.loretowellness.com

• Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here

• Take the FREE Quiz to see how your birth is still affecting you → [Link]

• Instagram: @brigidtebaldi

Motherhood exposes everything you once managed to outrun. Old wounds. Old patterns. Old beliefs about what you must do to be worthy, loved, or safe. In this conversation, I talk with my good friend, Dr. Amber Curtis, about the pressure women feel to hold everything together and the quiet collapse that follows when the body finally says “enough!"

We explore the roots of perfectionism, the invisible trauma that shapes a woman’s identity, the stress responses that masquerade as strength, and the way faith becomes twisted into performance when a woman was never taught how to receive love without earning it. Dr. Curtis shares her story of postpartum depression, suicidal ideation, and the long road back to truth, safety, and God’s mercy through deep nervous system work.

This episode is for the woman who has never allowed herself to fall apart, who keeps pushing because she does not know another way, who loves her family fiercely yet feels pulled thin by her own expectations. You will walk away with clarity, compassion for your story, and a new way to understand the reactions you can no longer explain.

Connect with Amber:

• https://solutionsforsimplicity.com/
• Chat with her on IG

Connect with Brigid

• www.loretowellness.com

• Join The Dwelling Place: A Christ-centered community for women ready to heal their minds, bodies, and stories. Learn more & join here

• Take the FREE Quiz to see how your birth is still affecting you → [Link]

• Instagram: @brigidtebaldi