Belinda Terro Mooney
Episode 334
23 JUNE 2025
As a student-athlete, she lettered in basketball and track, including having been All-District in basketball in her junior year. Present day she enjoys swimming, walking, jogging, dancing, and basketball. On the faith side, she is an author, Catholic Coach, and speaker, and has a story about having met Mother Teresa, which we shares during this interview. Her current writing projects include “Pray With Us: A Saint for Every Day,” “The 3 Works of Reparation: God’s Divine Mercy for Our Times,” as well as making a Catholic edition of her book, “My Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Workbook: Creating a Comprehensive Plan for a Calm, Ordered Life, 2nd Edition,” which contains information and planning for exercise in all forms including setting goals for sports and sports teams.
Notable guest quotes:
“I would witness my dad every night saying his prayers next to his bed before he got into bed. And my mom, saying her rosary in the bed at night, those were just daily occurrences in my life. And they would take us to Mass every Sunday, got us our sacraments… I always had a sense of God as my father, since I was very, very little. So, just a lot of piety as I was growing up.”
“We had a coach who really ran us to death. And that’s when I was in the best shape of my life. It was just an amazing time… And I just learned that you either get tough or you get out and I wasn’t getting out.”
“It was a time in my life when it was difficult– the school that I was at, there was some bullying and stuff. But basketball made me feel like I was strong. Basketball helped me through that time.”
“A good time in my life, especially as a young woman to feel that my body was strong. It was something that God had given me to help me through this life. And I was in the best shape of my life. And that’s when I made the all-district team in my junior year.”
“I probably could have played basketball in college… I let it go. And it was a great loss. I still have regrets about that… I unfortunately had to grieve that.”
“Instead of doing therapy, I’m doing coaching, which is easier for me because coaching doesn’t go back into the past and the pain. It stays in the present and moves into the future; what goals you want to set, just like the improvement that an athlete would have with a coach trying to move them forward in their performance and whatever sport they’re playing. Same thing with life coaches. We’re just doing it with the rest of life.”
“I feel like when you go to a country that has all these saints and especially if it’s saints that you have a personal relationship with – I love many, many saints in heaven and I’ve researched a whole lot of them – so when I was younger, I always wanted to meet up with Saint Bernadette. So, when I was in France, I got a chance to go (pray) at her reliquary… and then I also got to go to Saint Teresa of Ávila.”
“It’s just a lot of grace when you go on pilgrimages and I do recommend it, even if it’s just around where you live, if there are any saints’ relics or anything, you can go to your church and pray with the relics there as well.”
“I wrote to her a couple of times and she replied both times herself. She said, ‘I write all my letters myself.’ So, I still have those two letters from Mother Teresa, which is after I had met her.”
“Jesus told her the saints are the most powerful on their feast day. So, I’ve been praying this way as an intercessory prayer person for many, many years where if I know what the saint is on the calendar, who the saint is for the day, that’s their feast day, I’ll pray with them for all my people that I’m praying for.”
“When you know the saint whose feast day is the day that you’re having a big game or a race or whatever you’re doing, you just ask them to pray with you and ask our Father to help you do what He’s giving you to do. And you’re going to do better than you would have had you not.”
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