Hey there. 


Yes, momma, YOU.


Do you feel numb enough yet? There’s so much going on, and yet, somehow you’re in a place of inactivity…


You’re being pulled in so many directions, but somehow you’re still not going anywhere… 


Just raise your hand high if this is TRUTH to you.


We’ve all lived some pretty crazy stuff lately, and it isn’t over yet, in fact, many of these things are likely part of our new normal. Time to hone in one what we’ll make of our personal "new normal."


Is it more family time, prayer time, regular workouts, growing food, fellowshipping, lending your soul in service to those in need, etc.?


As our very wise priest would say, “if Satan can’t make you bad, he’ll make you busy!" We can all realize that we oft went a pace that was way too feverish!


How crazy to think that life can be this complex and demanding!


Maybe you’re closing your business, loosing your house, disjointed from family, grieving grandma and you find your just gripping with nails clinging to day-to-day aspects of raising your beautiful family! 


It’s busy all right! It’s also scary, uncertain and definitely tenuous. Your mood swings wildly.


There must be a better way. There must be an option for slowing down, getting more clarity and moving forward methodically.


I, too, get this. I’ve been spread out so thin before that I thought I might just tear a hole. This spring has been a little bit like that for me. Hence, I took a break from writing you.
 
As if I wasn’t busy enough raising 6 kids, nursing a toddler, running a business, shaping a happening homestead, and keeping a cleanly home, I added 6 chicks, 4 kittens, 3 geese, 10 cows and 8 piglets, another 1/2 acre of garden and a 24, x 40 pleated greenhouse! 


Clearly every day should kick off with milking a cow in the early morning hours and it will! I’m doing it!


However, It got a little crazy for a few weeks!!


With all of this beautiful bovine newness, my normal fitness slot or adoration in the living room all alone opportunity was co-opted by the flowing white gold of homestead life, jersey milk aplenty!


I want the benefits of the raw milk for our family, but it comes at a price!

It demands my time, energy and money with a new constancy…


This is okay.


I have now pulled past tired, learning, trying and striving and into a place with good systems and structure within which to thrive. I quickly adapted to my new normal, and so can you, whatever it is!


…and just to make it all more fun, we on the farm meanwhile inherited a jersey bottle calf which we are actively trying to make a beef cow adopt for feedings! She was being called Half n’ Half Calf, but was up graded to Breve. LOL! She's so sweet.


You get the point. Life isn’t about slowing down. It’s about speeding up, changing lanes smoothly, and keeping your eyes on the road until the destination is safely reached.


For you this is heaven and nothing short of it. God needs his new saints NOW!


Maybe you’re ready to change lanes from exhaustion and inflammation and begin to heal yourself with food?


Maybe you're desiring to speed along to more excitedly toward your sanctity through Catholicism?


And maybe you're wanting that strong, recovered body so the rest of your life is full of the “yeses” you and the Lord have in mind from the bedroom to the boardroom. 
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Yes, I just said that.


YOU desire and deserve the best you, fit and faithful!!


Let’s get after it,


Coach Rebecca


Let's chat your personal plan to health freedom inside and out! Take a free hour with me on a call so we can move the beautiful mother you are forward methodically. It all begins with a simple YES.

We all need solid strategies to cope with this quarantine! It’s not going away anytime soon. Our methods may differ one from another, but some can have very common themes and application.

There are a lot of things we must do to live well at this time, so queue up your creativity to see the miraculous and mentionable amongst the mundane.

• Start your day alone in prayer and meditate on something of your Catholic faith. If you have a hot drink ritual, take it down the floor and stretch your body too.
• Begin with the kids by prayer and talking to see how they’re holding up. Kids may not understand everything, but let’s help them understand something: our hope! Also, a little chant music in the background sets a strong stage.
• Kick the kids outside more often than normal. They can snack, read, play or rest in the fresh air to avoid being too cooped up. Heck, so can you!
• When schooling the kids find a way to snuggle in and connect. Ditch the desk and snuggle so you are more present to one another.
• Cook and clean to a podcast or spiritual conference to reap continual inspiration. There are many series of talks which are underway and several more beginning for Holy Week. Many are done live, but more are archived. Tune in.
• Exercise a little harder, go a little further, lift a little more. Keep your health moving forward! Take the vitamins, apply the oils, drink the water, do the massage and get the rest. 
• Have some tech free time. We are all wanting to know the latest, but we’re probably missing the latest from our spouse, our kids, the saint of the day or the Scriptures, which seem to have been wonderfully written just for our hearts again today.
• Try to be more grateful for all the little things from the toilet paper in your bathroom to the salt on your food. Your family could start a list or you could be writing 10 things daily in a journal. You’ll remember all that you do have, which is still plenty.
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I like what Pope St. John Paul II has to say and I’m taking the liberty to assign its significance to our current world threat and inconvenience: 

"I hope, above all, that you approach this competition with that disciplined and focused attitude which helps to form every person and which can teach order, loyalty and respect for people and laws as well as being a training ground for building strength and dignified behavior.”

Look just a little deeper into what you’re doing today and find a way to rewire the rituals so that being home, safe and healthy with your crew is more attractive than anything you could go do.

Let us unite more closely with the suffering body of Christ at this time,

Coach Rebecca
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All women everywhere are super challenged at this moment, rich or poor, young or old, fruitful or barren! We are in an UPHILL BATTLE!
There is no reason to believe this is unique to you, yet, you feel isolated, afraid and even angry. You are one among many.

After all, you just watched your retirement evaporate, your loved one get admitted, your children return from schools and your parish close its doors! 

What on earth is going on? How in the world have we come to this cascade and collapse!

Each day forward is going to present you the opportunity to be at the ready in body and soul. Every single day in this current Covid crisis gives you the chance to grab onto incredible and available graces.

The graces I am speaking about are the ones you ask for and cooperate with, where you do not flounder when everything has been destabilized because YOU are stable.

You must continue on and intensify the cultivation of truth, beauty and goodness in your home. But how will you do this?

Christ is our sure hope! He needs us to act though.

He wants to yoke with you despite your first world life being stripped away.
He wants to walk with you despite the order in your area to be locked down.
He wants to speak with you when all technological modernism would fail and you have nothing but His indwelling in the silence.

Sister we’re at war.

Let’s do as other have suggested and think of COVID as Christ Over Virus, Illness and Death. These, too, are His…and He wins this war.

Everyday you have to make efforts to keep your mindset straight and effective so the body can do the work ahead. You must be healthy as you can, strong as you ought and have the stamina of the saints.
You are going to need to show up for yourself and your loved ones. You must shore up your spiritual and physical house, NOW. You must be eating well, exercising daily and soaking in spiritual devotion, reading and prayer.
Please join me in using sport as a school of moral excellence. I have amazing resources to help you and I want to unleash their full power into every Catholic home so you, the mom, are healed and ready to rise out of this crisis.

I will walk with you hand-in-hand for a comprehensive 8 weeks of programing to show you how to do exactly what I do to be fit and faithful. I will hold your feet to the fire until this is YOUR lifestyle and you are thriving in it.

You just need to stop worrying, and start acting. I will chat with you at help no cost and set your motivation in motion like never before.

You’ll learn from me directly and be held accountable daily. 

DO YOU WANT THE HELP?

Book a moment for your own MOMentum to begin here.

See you on the other side,
Coach Rebecca Dussault
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You get to this point. I get to this point. We all need to get to this point. It is now that the self-teaching moment of the day, instead of the self-medicating moment, has arrived. 

But am I helpless?

The food cravings roaring within: sugar, crunch, salt, carbs, caffeine…my body is saying, you’re bored, you’re distracted, you’ve stalled out, you’re looking left and right while My perfect will for you is straight ahead. 
Truth be told, my feels a little faint today from the exhaustion of four nights of back-to-back baby-interrupted rest. I toil on. I lean into Christ and the pillars which uphold my days: faith, fitness and food.

I am not helpless.

I tell myself that getting kitchen-bound right about now to heal emotions and feelings isn’t going to help me reach the goal. It’s not. It will in fact distract and detract. I must toil on and keep my eyes on the prize if I am to help myself.

My goal is actually, literally to sit here and write to you…and you…and you, all you beautiful souls who read this needing to know there is a still more excellent way for us as mothers. And it’s not just my life that holds those keys.

We are not helpless.

I toil on staying on task and my spirit lifts because I am within what I am to do. I align with my ideal, stay the course, finish the race and keep the faith. Then I have not fallen prey to the acedia which tries in desperation to strangle me.

I further have no reason for a mental or emotional self-flogging. I am the victor over self by Christ in me. I toil on! About that cross today that I carry, that you carry…it gets lighter with every YES and oneness of our will with His. What are you avoiding?

My fingers are speeding across the keyboard now with zest to also bring you passion and purpose for this life, this fight, your plight. 

You are not helpless.

His holy will is often well hidden beneath that which on the surface is kids that won’t quit fighting, the schedule with never an opening, and the hum drum of keeping your life together…just barely.

Let’s get you finding your forward everyday through mercy and a proven method to make you the mother you always wanted to be and the wife you knew you could be.

You were made for this. Be not afraid.

Book a chat with me. I take time to speak with each woman for an hour or more and light the fire of conviction and commitment. What are you waiting for? Find this hour of time FIRST, and then find the rest of the fit and faithful life!

Looking forward to powerfully encouraging YOU,

Rebecca Dussault

"The WISE Gals program is truly life changing.  For over a year I kept telling myself I would start exercising someday, but someday never came until I made the commitment to begin. With 10 children, 7 of whom I’m still homeschooling, I would never have found the time to exercise on my own.  But Rebecca gave me a treasure chest of exercises, and methods to fit it in joyfully and purposefully.  She is an amazing coach and knows just when to push and when to praise.  My whole family is grateful that I completed the program and I am still as enthusiastic about it.  I’m more flexible and stronger than I thought I ever could be and now have energy to be the happy and productive mom and wife that I always wished I could be."  - Michelle M.

I see you…the mom that craves change. You’re not ALONE.
Time is just flying by with all the New Year, “new you” momentum that is being captured here at Fit Catholic Mom, and what a great start it’s off to because women want to make things new, and live out their vocations with zest and self-care.
Here’s a powerful recent comment from a woman I train:
I'm learning so much and growing in my faith and fitness a tiny bit every day. I know I will face setbacks and stumbling blocks in the future; however, today I feel my armor is stronger than it's been since literally high school athletics. I have no idea if the future will hold more races, or what have you, but I am now believing that it could be possible for me. I reached out to my friend (fallen away Catholic, avid gardener) and offered to help her with her garden in exchange for some of the spoils, some hard work and conversation. You've given me, and continue to give me so many ideas. I am in awe of you, but I am also so much more aware of my potential BECAUSE of you.
-Beth, mother of 10
I also want you to realize your potential with methodical steps that are easy and attractive to you. They should be as unique as you are: your people, your place, your passions. 
The last thing you should be thinking is that you need to make changes and then start looking for that “celery diet” or decide to head to the gym 20 min. away for an hour and a half a day. 
Likely, these efforts will leave you feeling like you went Easy + 10 in your quest for better living. Will you sustain it?
“To begin is for everyone, to persevere is for saints.”  -St. Jose Maria Escriva
If you’re so done looking into worldly methods and the racket of it's 'do this and do that,' and are missing real a integration of spirit and flesh, then let’s jump tracks and teach you truly Catholic means to discover how much you love yourself, your life and your loved ones. 
Simple + significant…sustained. That's the goal to achieve the life altering change you crave.
I am happy to help you reach this place and thrive, but first, drop the busyness, excuses or fear and begin to say yes to yourself by booking a free call with me.


Today’s the day,
Coach Rebecca

Would you like to love yourself through the coming holidays? Would you like to be free of the regret and remorse of how you spent your time and money?

I know you’d love to feel like you have really high energy levels, enthusiasm on demand, and truth in action coursing through your heart and home to get into a New Year.

This is a beautiful time…the Advent of what’s to come!
Most of us are truly battling the darkness in these many weeks of winter. We are struggling to fit in all the daylight activities as they are scrunched in tighter by the setting of the sun, which literally sucks the warmth away with it. 

Living just south of the Canadian border has our sun setting currently in the 3 o’clock hour!!! This shifts my workouts, work and even my energies. I am less out on the land and more in the home. 

I have to get more creative and do things like bring my road bike into the living room and mount it on the stationary trainer just to log some endurance cardio while watching or schooling the kids at the same time. 

Pssst. Can I tell you something? I actually love this because then I can take in full length homilies and podcasts after kids are in bed…alone, just me on a bike.

I need to anticipate and plan well for this darkness to take over or I don't have even the remotest chance of success within it. I have to engineer my time and my home to accompany my desires. Do I always win at this? No. 
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Confesson: I sometimes succumb to making my house so clean and cozy that I will miss my opportunities to succeed at the above. We all have to know when to say no to something good to grab onto something great. 

We all need to hate the habits which lead us off path. We need to disdain the acedia of our lives which has us chasing uselessly at stuff that is not of progress or for (His) presence, but madness and mania. 

I want to love my human, allowing all kinds of light into what remains to be my dark and untamed places. I want to pad with straw my heart’s manger better this season, and make sure my primary objective is to prepare a place for my innocent and precious Savior...coming to me daily.

I believe we can do this. 
I believe we should want this.
I believe he’s asking us to.

Sport is that awesome tool of excellence which really helps us to elevate and achieve more than comfort and indifference lend to us.

We flex the same mental muscles to be faithful at anything! We work it from deep inside and find conviction that something really matters and we start stepping forward into it. 

I want to help you beat back the excuses so you can hate (less) your humanand begin to spiritually and physically love yourself showing the discipline and direction to crave and craft the life you imagined!

P.S. I am here to help you in a totally Catholic and creative way. 

NO GYMS - NO SITTERS - NO CALORIE COUNTS - NO WASTED EFFORTS!!
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Let’s chat a plan about YOUR life so you can put to death the habits holding you hostage and be truly free and new in your blessed lifestyle of faith and fitness.


In the fullness of time,
Rebecca Dussault


Make the call...and BOOK the call! ​

You love to see transformation! You are attracted to healthy and affirming changes.
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You watch people flip houses, loose 50 lbs. and gain a new form or quit a long held vice and embrace more freedom. You celebrate, and you envy them.

You scroll through newsfeeds of people and note their awesome progress but do nothing more for yourself.
Somehow you’ve avoided the need for your own overhaul!

You flip through channels looking for a facelift on a house which is sorely outdated and lacking attractiveness, and yet, you don’t realize your desire to see all thing made new doesn’t ever get to cross the yellow taped off spaces of your own body or spirit.

So you’re into change, but NOT really.

Will this work for you much longer? Will you regret that you saw others putting one foot in front of the other toward newness, health and holiness, but were just an observer until it was too late?
I think you need to re-think what change means to YOU! If it’s good for others, it must be good for you also. No double standards.

You’re better than that!

Today’s the day. Don’t accept another 24 hours of your own shallow excuses. I think you’ll love your before and after!

“I was an exhausted, negative thinking, 50 year old mama who felt more like a victim than a survivor. It was extremely difficult to be a light to my family, when I just couldn't seem to shake the negative patterns that I let slip into my life.

By God's grace, I found the W.I.S.E. Gals Intensity Course. The program helped me to set new priorities in my life and develop new habits. The message of hope and God's love throughout the entire program have been so motivating. Physically my thinking is clearer and my energy level has increased, which allows me to be more aware of the needs of my husband and children. My body is stronger. 

I would give my whole-hearted recommendation to this Course. It has changed my life and it can change yours too! It is up to you! Thanks so much Rebecca!”
-Sue C.


Getting after it with you,
Rebecca Dussault


Let me peel back the curtain in your mind on a free call (book it!) so you get ultra clear on what can be changed in your life. I have nothing but respect and understanding for all things busy, tired, and frustrated Catholic mom. I work with them every single day.