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A Thriving Catholic

A Thriving Catholic

A Thriving Catholic Follow Christ. Feel Happier. Get Healthier

Jessica is a wife, mother of 3, former Army Officer, and lover of Jesus. She is passionate about helping Catholic women achieve health and happiness while growing in their love for Jesus and his Church.

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Name:  Jessica Castillo

Email Address: jessica@athrivingcatholic.com

Location: Wahiawa, HI, USA

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Celestial Nook

Celestial Nook

Celestial Nook – True Love is for You

I help guide Catholic single women move from doubting that they’ll ever get married to poised for faithful and committed love.

Before I started dating my husband, I had believed that love was for other people and not for me. I had dated people, but never felt like I found someone I could be my whole self with. I wanted to find love, but I wasn’t sure if love was going to find me. At the end of my rope, I decided that I would commit myself to being happy, no matter what.

I knew I had to trust God’s plan. I had a savings account that I’d been using to store away money for my future wedding. I decided that day to spend that money doing something that would bring me love and joy, even if it wasn’t the way I’d originally planned. I signed myself up for ballroom dance classes, which was something I’d always wanted to do. ⠀
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One day, I saw a flier for an upcoming dance competition. It sounded like an amazing opportunity! I decided to find a partner and take private lessons to get competition-ready. Initially, I asked a few friends from my dance studio to be my partner, but they didn’t seem interested in competing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I knew I was going to attend a Catholic Thrive Conference and I hoped I’d find someone there to ask. I’d seen and talked to my now-husband at other conferences and although we were friendly, we hadn’t spent much time together. With intent, I asked him if he’d want to be my dance partner in a ballroom dance competition. He answered me by saying that doing something like that was his dream! I was shocked and elated! I had no idea then, in that moment, that this was the man I was going to marry and that God had brought him to me when I my heart was ready. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
If you believe that God is calling you to the vocation of marriage, true love is for you.

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Name:  Celeste Sibolboro

Email Address: celeste@celestialnook.com

Location: Lancaster, CA, USA

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Laura K. Roland

Laura K. Roland

Laura K. Roland – Him through me to you.

I am a cradle Catholic, married to my husband of 31 years. Living the true empty-nester life, my husband and I have moved 3 times in the last six years.
After the kids moved out to live their own callings, I started feeling the call to find a community of women who were in the same stage of life as me and I was surprised to find there wasn’t one. Craving authentic sisterhood, I invited a few friends to create a book club with me and well, the rest really is history. Finding this tribe of women who are on the same journey as me – to grow in holiness, to flourish in my faith, to become a saint (trust me, that’s going to be a long, long road!), has made all the difference.

Encounter Grace is an extension of that first experience, and I am so humbled to journey all these years later with Penny and so many other amazing women.

In addition to Encounter Grace, I am a speaker and writer, retreat leader, and mentor. Topics that are near and dear to my heart center around living an authentic life in the faith, encouraging women to tell their stories about their lives.

I am most passionate about connecting women no matter the season or stage of life they are in, and encouraging each of them to understand they have unique gifts and talents that only they can share with the world. And we so desperately need those gifts and talents.

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Name:  Laura K. Roland

Email Address: laura@laurakroland.org

Location: Leonardtown MD, USA

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Jansen Bagwell

Jansen Bagwell

Whole Catholic -Begin your deliverance journey and learn to live a Whole Catholic life!

Welcome to Whole Catholic. I’m Jansen Bagwell, the founder of Whole Catholic and the creator of Discipleship Deliverance™. I’m a former protestant pastor and convert to the Catholic faith. When I was young, I had a very powerful, supernatural encounter with Jesus that produced confidence in me that changed the direction of my life. Before this encounter, I was so painfully shy that I literally could not speak to people outside of my own family. However, through this personal experience of deliverance, I instantly received the boldness to share the Gospel of Christ with anyone and everyone who would listen. Within a few months I was preaching and ministering around the world, to crowds large and small, in evangelical and charismatic churches and gatherings. I continued to work in this capacity for over two and a half decades.

Over the years, I discovered that this gift of public speaking was actually a part of my charisms, the spiritual gifts God had created within me, and I began to see how at a very early age, these charisms had been thwarted and stolen. I became a student and minister of deliverance; learning how we, as humans, can make decisions in our spirit, both positively and negatively, and how those decisions impact five main areas of our lives.

While pastoring a church full time, I found my schedule filling up with appointments for people seeking deliverance. As the level of spiritual warfare increased, I began to discern a need for an increased level of spiritual protection. I looked for answers in all my usual protestant resources, but everything fell short. It was when my personal studies led me to the teachings of the early church fathers, and ultimately to the Catholic church, that I began to understand the power of a more sacramental faith. Eventually, I stepped down from pastoring and my family and I entered fully into the Catholic Church in 2014.

Walking away from pastoring was a real “Abraham” moment for me. I felt as if I was offering all of my talents and gifts, the knowledge I had spent a lifetime gathering, and quite honestly the life I had known to that point, all upon a sacrificial altar. I knew I couldn’t become a priest and I didn’t know where my gifts fit within the Catholic church or if they fit at all. Still, I knew this was where God was calling me, so I laid it down and walked away.

To my tremendous surprise, it was only a couple of months after my conversion that my priest called me up one day. He said that he had a person who needed deliverance and asked if I could help. I was truly astonished. God was restoring my gifts and calling me to a ministry of deliverance!

I have spent over three decades studying deliverance. I have a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies, a master’s in counseling and a second master’s in religion, spirituality and health from Durham University in Durham, England. Through my experiences and education, the Lord has led me to develop a process for deliverance called Discipleship Deliverance™. I believe that deliverance is not a one-time experience, but rather a journey. It’s a lifestyle of learning how to identify your enemy, listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, exercise your spiritual power through prayer and the sacraments and live the Whole Catholic life God intended for you to live. Thus the name, “Whole Catholic.”

God has gifted me with a passion and purpose to guide individuals on a journey to complete and sustainable spiritual healing. And because of the interconnected nature of our creation; body, mind and spirit; more often than not, this process also results in greater mental, emotional and physical health, as well as a clarity of life direction and purpose.

One Discipleship Deliverance participant described it this way: “I began seeing Jansen because I was experiencing some disconnect in my life. I was never able to quite put my finger on it, but I had some deep rooted problems with anxiety and fear, that were buried deep inside of me. Jansen helped me discover this (and realize that it was) due to some childhood traumas I had experienced. After just two sessions, I was sleeping better and feeling more peace and joy. After the third session, I began to see drastic improvements in my relationship with God, my marriage, self-esteem, my relationship with my children, and my career. Everything in my life just seemed to be getting better. Even my finances! Discipleship Deliverance truly changed my life. This process allowed me to unlock God’s purpose and destiny for me. Everything that blocked me from receiving the fullness of God’s grace and love has been removed. Now I can live in the freedom of Christ’s love.”

Dear friend, whatever has brought you to this place, one thing’s for certain; God’s hand has been in it! He wants you here. You were created for amazing things and He wants to help you discover them all! If you are ready to uncover the hidden and dormant charisms in your life; if you’re ready to learn how to engage in the spiritual battle we’re all called to; if you’re ready to live your life, whole and complete, in the graces and promises of God; I’m here to help and I’d be honored to accompany you on your journey of deliverance.

Blessings in Christ,
Jansen Bagwell

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Name: Jansen Bagwell

Email Address: wholecatholiccoaching@gmail.com

Location: Franklin, TN

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Colleen Pressprich

Colleen Pressprich – Seeking the simple way in a complicated world

Colleen is a former missionary Montessori teacher, now a homeschooling mom who uses the lessons learned in the classroom and mission field to grow the domestic church. Her first book, Marian Consecration for Families with Young Children released this year.

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Name:  Collen Pressprich

Email Address: cmpressprich@gmail.com

Location: Grosse Pointe Park MI, USA

 

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