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 in your life.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to ...

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for m...

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlan...

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 man but in different ways?As I looked at the responses and the complaints of women I coach, I found that there were four critical skills that both wome...

"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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

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 important in the care of our families and our home. It offers practical advice for ways to become more consistent. Looking for a Cath...

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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!Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Fo...

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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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

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. Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow me on I...

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 learning the good habits or virtues that are the foundation of thinking, feeling, and acting.In Virtue Based Parenting, we 1. Reco...

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you ...

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 of the woman, the wife and mother, and the friend we are called to be.For my non-Catholic friends in the audience, I want to explain why Catholics ...

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 we’ve said or thought so many times that we just think it is true – we’ve lost the control to make the decisions of how we want to live or change and ...

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow m...

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoa...

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve th...

Whatever form "evil" takes in your life - sadness, anger, unmet expectations, St. Josemaria's advice to "Drown Evil in an Abundance of Good" works!Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

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 solutions to a problem – rather than just blaming and holding someone at fault. Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage a...

You can find my parenting course, "Virtue-Based Parenting" at janetquinlan.com/parentingcourseLooking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for ...

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for mo...

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.Looking for a Catholic life coach to help you navigate marriage and motherhood? Sign up for a free coaching session with me to see how coaching can help you achieve the life you want! Go to janetquinlan.com for more information.Follow me on Instagram @j...