Jul 1, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Communication, Faith, Featured Content, Healing, Human Dignity, Popular
When I mentor others, clients commonly express concern that our conversation might just amount to venting or badmouthing others in their lives. I hear things like, “Yeah, I was hurt, but I don’t want to throw this person under the bus.” In other words, there is often...
Jun 24, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Healing, Popular, Prayer
The story goes that I first asked Jesus into my heart around three or four years old, after punching my friend Katie. Apparently, I felt remorseful; my mom asked me if I wanted to ask Jesus to forgive me, and I agreed. I’m sure that wasn’t the first I...
May 6, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Healing, Prayer
It may sound strange, but sometimes disconnection from God is not about a lack of faith. At different times in my own faith journey, I have found myself doing all the right “Catholic things” while still feeling disconnected from God. I would go to Mass,...
Mar 27, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Family, Featured Content, Parenting, Popular
In healthy relationships, rupture and repair lead to growth. You fight. You reconcile. You understand each other more deeply. Trust consolidates. Peace increases. But in borderline relational cycles, repair does not heal. It resets. And then it happens again. And...
Mar 25, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Family, Featured Content, Parenting, Popular
“Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” For many, especially those who struggle with emotional instability, scrupulosity, or intense spiritual swings, that command feels overwhelming. Perfect? As God is perfect? It can sound like a demand for flawless moral...
Jan 7, 2026 | Faith, Featured Content, Popular
God’s Patience, the Human Heart, and the Art of Entering Another World One of the greatest misunderstandings about evangelization is that it’s primarily about delivery, about getting the message out quickly, clearly, and efficiently. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe...
Dec 30, 2025 | Faith, Featured Content, Popular
Every January, we rush toward resolutions that promise quick transformation. Pray more.Work out more.Lose weight.Fix the parts of ourselves that feel unfinished. But what if the most important spiritual and psychological resolution you could make this year is one...
Dec 19, 2025 | Faith, Featured Content, Popular
Appearance Versus Reality All right, I’m a little late to the game, but I finally watched K-Pop: Demon Hunters. I couldn’t help it. I mean Korean pop stars fighting demons? Pretty enticing. Turns out, though, the movie has a greater depth than the title suggests. The...
Dec 17, 2025 | Faith, Family, Featured Content, St. Joseph
Every once in a while, a book finds you at the exact moment God is trying to get your attention. Not a clever book. Not a popular book. A disruptive book. The kind that reframes your assumptions so completely that you end up seeing your faith, your history, and even...
Dec 10, 2025 | Faith, Family, Featured Content, St. Joseph
Why a silent carpenter might be your best guide when everything feels unclear. Most of us don’t struggle with knowing what’s right. We struggle with what Joseph never seemed to struggle with: Acting on it. Joseph never gives a speech in Scripture. He doesn’t ask for...
Dec 7, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Family, Featured Content
As we look forward to celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, we remember the reality of how this day came to be. There stands the quiet sorrow of Our Lady’s parents, Anne and Joachim. Before they became Saints, they were a quiet couple who suffered the...
Nov 19, 2025 | Faith, Family, Featured Content
When you go home for the holidays, sometimes something strange happens. Perhaps despite your best intentions, you become like a young kid again. Even if you’ve spent years growing, healing, praying, maybe even going to therapy or mentorship, there is something about...
Jul 16, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
Recently, I called a friend of mine to ask for some wisdom. I don’t know about you, but I have a tendency to overcomplicate things and overcommit myself. So I reached out and shared the challenge I was facing—one I was confident he had encountered before—hoping he...
Jul 15, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
And for many dads, this constant state of responsiveness comes with a hidden cost: the slow disappearance of their inner life. When Every Moment Belongs to Someone Else If you’re a father, your life is no longer your own. That’s not a complaint—it’s a vocation. But...
Jul 11, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
I was heading down to the basement to work out. That was the plan. But as I descended the stairs, I passed the storage closet—recently emptied of a few boxes—and noticed how disorganized it had become. And suddenly, reorganizing that closet felt… necessary. Urgent,...
Jul 4, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
As we celebrate the Fourth of July, it’s worth asking a question most Catholics probably haven’t considered: Can you be holy and still be American? Or more pointedly, does the American mindset help or hinder the spiritual life? In 1899, Pope Leo XIII wrote...
Jun 28, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
For a long time, Jesus’ mother meant nothing to me I knew Mary was important—she had a statue in the church, she was in the prayers—but she wasn’t for me. I grew up Catholic, but Mary wasn’t emphasized much in my formal formation. I never disliked her, but I never...
Jun 25, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
Loving Your Spouse’s IFS Parts Like Your Own: The Key to a Thriving Marriage When we start doing the inner work of healing and integration, we quickly come face to face with our “parts.” These parts—fearful, angry, defensive, shameful—can feel like little...
