Episode #93: Ester Munt-Brooks on Why Loving Well Is the Hardest — and Only — Thing That Brings You Peace

About this episode

Ester Munt-Brooks discusses the complexities of love as a decision and its impact on peace and relationships.

In this episode, Catholic educator Ester Munt-Brooks returns for a deeply honest conversation about what it really means to love — not as a feeling, but as a decision. From her years as a free-spirited musician in Spain who wanted nothing to do with commitment, to becoming a daily communicant, devoted wife, and mother of three, Ester unpacks what shifted — and why it took so long to look in the right place. We'll walk you through: ✅ Why the women you're comparing yourself to might actually be leading you away from peace ✅ What St. Thomas Aquinas can teach us about emotions, free will, and why love is never "just a feeling" ✅ How staying home with her children felt both wrong to her intellect and completely right in her heart — at the same time ✅ Why putting your children first might quietly be destroying your marriage ✅ The small, unsexy acts of love that bring warm feelings back when they've gone cold ✅ Why original sin was — at its root — a trust problem. And why yours probably is too ✅ What it means to be both a strong woman and a receptive one — and why you don't have to choose Whether you're a high-achieving woman who's starting to feel the weight of all that striving, a…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Luella Jonk

Guest: Ester Munt-Brooks

Topics covered

• love
• peace
• relationships
• self-comparison
• parenting
• faith

Keywords

• love
• peace
• relationships
• parenting
• self-comparison
• faith
• St. Thomas Aquinas

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