This is the last episode of the Letters to Women podcast — what an honor to journey with you over the past eight years! Listen to discover why I’m hanging up the podcast mic and what’s next for you as you explore the feminine genius in your ordinary, daily life.

Resources for you:

• Listen to A Drink with a Friend, hosted by Tsh Oxenreider

• Listen to Visitation Sessions, hosted by Emily and Chris Chapman as well as Kate and Casey Stapleton

• Listen to Charting Towards Intimacy hosted by Ellen Hollaway

• Browse close to 200 episodes in the Letters to Women archive

• Send me an email! Letterstowomen@gmail.com

• Subscribe to Naptime Notes, my monthly newsletter over on Substack

My guest today in this final episode of the Letters to Daughters season is Brya Hanan. She’s a wife, mother, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Life Coach, and fellow pilgrim on the healing journey. Brya brings her Catholic tradition, professional and personal insights, and understanding of trauma to offer accompaniment and tools for interior integration and wholeness.

She weaves together Church teaching, Psychology, and Inner Child work and hopes to provide encouragement through children and non-fiction books, her personal blog, and webinars to help people live a fulfilling and authentic life.

In this conversation, we’re talking about Brya’s own healing journey, who our inner child is, how to embrace them, and how this approach to healing is integrated and Catholic.

If you're longing for healing, deeper self-awareness in your identity as daughter, or a closer relationship with God as Father, sister, this episode is for you.

Topics we cover:

• Brya’s story as a Catholic woman

• The story behind Brya’s new book, Befriending your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Healing and Wholeness

• Brya’s advice for listeners who have no idea what it means to befriend their inner child and no longer try to erase or abandon themselves

• How learning about attachment styles impacts the way that we claim the reality of being made in the image of God

• Brya’s ADULT acronym and how it can help us rise above wounds and fractures in our lives

• How we can be better tuned into the sensations of our body and how that attunement can bring healing

• What attunement is and why it’s so important when it comes to befriending our inner child

• How Brya lives out the feminine genius in her ordinary, daily life as a daughter of God

• Resources for you:

  • ⁠Pick up a copy of Brya’s new book, Befriending your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Healing and Wholeness⁠

  • ⁠Follow Brya on Instagram⁠

  • ⁠Check out Brya’s website ⁠

  • ⁠Subscribe to Naptime Notes and get early, ad free access to all the Letters to Women episodes for just $5 a month⁠

My guest today is Meg Hunter-Kilmer. Meg has been on the podcast so many times -- sometimes sitting at my table, sometimes from someone else’s home, this time from her OWN home! I first met Meg ten years ago at a Kansas Catholic College Student Convention and her love for Christ and his Church is such a joy to witness. When I started putting together the shows for this Letters to Daughters season, I knew I wanted Meg back on the show to talk about what living her daughterhood looked like.

In this conversation, we’re talking about the saints, Meg’s recent trip to South Korea, what it’s like to write about the hard parts of saints stories so even the littlest can meet these Heavenly friends, and what it’s like for Meg to OWN a home after years of life as a hobo for Christ.

If you're ready to embrace your identity as a beloved daughter of God and be inspired by the lives of the saints, sister, this letter is for you.

Topics we cover:

• Meg’s new adventures as a homeowner in South Bend

• Why we should throw out perfectionism when it comes to hosting and how to embrace scruffy hospitality

• Meg’s recent pilgrimage to South Korea

• How Meg started writing about the lives of the saints, how she’s grown in friendship with them over the years, and how that heavenly friendship impacts how she views herself as a daughter of God

• The universality of the Catholic Church

• What it was like for Meg to adapt her saint book for older children into a six part series for little kids

• How Meg lives out the feminine genius in her ordinary, daily life as a daughter of God

Resources for you:

• Pick up a copy of Meg’s new Saints Around the World for Little Ones Collection

• Follow Meg on Instagram

• Modern Saints by Ann Ball

• Subscribe to Naptime Notes and get early, ad free access to all the Letters to Women episodes for just $5 a month