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#46 | Why the Holidays Feel Harder After Motherhood (And What Your Nervous System Is Trying to Tell You)

The Discerning Mother

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 Listen to the FREE private podcast about Becoming the Woman God Had in Mind → [Link] Instagram: @brigidtebaldi

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Business • Entrepreneurship
Health & Fitness
Religion & Spirituality • Christianity

About Podcast

Welcome to The Discerning Mother, the podcast where building a thriving business and becoming a whole woman are not two different goals. Most wellness podcasts will tell you to regulate your nervous system. Most business podcasts will tell you to try another strategy.


This one will tell you why those won't work.


This is where faith, health, and business strategy collide.


Each week we talk about:



  • How your nervous system is either building your business or quietly sabotaging it

  • Why rewiring your nervous system and identity unlocks what regulation never could

  • Real strategy for scaling without burning the woman behind the brand

  • What Catholic/Christian theology has to say about money, ambition, and becoming

  • How to have more without doing more

  • Doing it all while being a present, joyful, peaceful mother & 6 or 7 figure business owner


This is not hustle culture with a rosary or prayers on top. This is the real work; the kind that changes what you are capable of in your business, your body, your marriage, and your motherhood (& by default, the world! Right, St. Mother Teresa?!).


Whether you are listening as you prep for a client call or folding laundry, it's time for you to dive in!