Deanne Miller
Episode 302
11 NOV 2024
She competed in hockey, figure skating, gymnastics, soccer, and dance team as a young girl and teenager, and in her adult years moved into sports pursuits such as tennis/pickleball, receiving Pilates and TRX certifications, and creating a physical certification program under the banner of SoulCore, a Catholic fitness apostolate that she is co-founder of, with a mission to amplify the experience of prayer through physical movement. On the faith side, she has a conversion story to the Catholic faith, which she talks about during this interview.
Notable guest quotes:
“I was brought up Greek Orthodox… A lot of joy… a lot of family, fun and really faith and unity and gratitude, acceptance. Really all those were just the cornerstone of our upbringing, a really beautiful, beautiful experience.”
“With having four brothers, I was thrown into a lot of sports that maybe most sisters may not be, including hockey… But I was so happy to be a part of it.”
“It really does glorify God in His just incredible healing graces. We don’t necessarily feel that as we’re going through something, but the reality is His hand is always with us and He’s always working in us.”
“Faith has always been the cornerstone of our family and our upbringing.”
“I like to say God reorders what we disorder.”
“I think about the scripture in John when Jesus asked the paralytic, do you want to be well. I was starting to kind of bring my suffering more to the Lord in just very, very minor ways. But I remember almost audibly hearing, ‘Do you want to be well?’ And I screamed inside, ‘Yes, I do’.”
“God knew exactly what I needed and the time it was going to take. But really in that journey, I just started to reestablish really a healthy respect and appreciation for caring for our body; again, this gift, this miracle that we’ve been given is our gift from God and how we care for it is our gift back to Him. We’re called to be stewards of our bodies.”
“Something that’s, instead of running, it’s rooted in the rosary, it’s focused on prayer and the life of Christ and virtue, but involves more functional movement, core strengthening, stretching, that sort of thing.”
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