Meet the Core Team at Take Up Ministries
Elizabeth Foss
Founder and Chief Content Director
Elizabeth is a certified Catholic life coach. She is trained as an integrative wellness nutrition coach and a mindset coach. Most importantly, she has been well educated in wholly Catholic cognitive behavioral coaching. She is wholeheartedly committed to helping you live your abundant life. Members love this very fruitful coaching that supports their physical, spiritual, and emotional health.
A wife, mother of nine, and grandmother, she has authored or co-authored many well-loved books, including Real Learning Revisited, Small Steps for Catholic Moms, and dozens of Take Up & Read bible studies. Elizabeth lives in a 255-year-old house in Connecticut that challenges her daily with its quirks, and she seeks refuge in her cottage garden which brings her great joy.
Micaela Darr
Member Coordinator
Micaela is a happy Catholic wife and a mother of many: 7 on earth and 5 in heaven. She is a homeschooler, a childbirth educator and the founder of Beata Birth, and a woman in awe of God’s design for birth and babies and families.
Her days are spent helping her older daughters navigate high school, and homeschooling her school-aged kiddos. She is passionate about God and the truth He reveals here on earth, and she loves learning alongside her children. She spends her evenings discussing politics and the state of the world with her husband, and working behind the scenes on ministry: aside from Take Up & Read, she is also the co-founder of the Fiat Conference. Her weekends are spent enjoying the beauty of Southern California, and sometimes photographing families and other such beauty in between baseball games and Mass.
At her heart, Micaela would simply define herself as a Catholic woman, a daughter to the one True King, and she seeks to acknowledge every day how great He is and how blessed and undeserving she is.