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…
More episodes of The Luella Jonk Show
- Episode #98: Nothing Was Wrong, But Something Felt Off
- Episode #97: Hannah Spier on Why Feminism Taught Women to Resent Men in Marriage
- Episode #96: Why I'm Calling Out Chatelaine - The Dangerous Truth About Weight and Responsibility
- Episode #95: Kate Christie - She Bought a Palazzo in Sicily—Here's Why Every Woman Should Have a Life List
- Episode #94: The Defensiveness You Feel in an Argument? Here's What It's Really Telling You.
- Episode #92: Hannah Spier: Depression Is Your Body Speaking. Are You Listening?
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Luella Jonk Show podcast page.