Jun 18, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
The Love That Sets Us Free: A Compassionate Path Through OCD OCD can be a torturous experience. Not a quirk or a desire for tidiness, but a dread-filled urgency that demands the elimination of uncertainty. Which is, of course, an impossible task. Living with...
Jun 11, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
The Goodness of a Perfectionist Part I am a perfectionist. And it isn’t all that bad! People tend to trust us perfectionists with responsibilities. We are seen as reliable. We are often praised for our attention to detail, our thoroughness, and our ability to produce...
Jun 4, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
A People Pleasers Guide to Saying Hard Things Saying something hard but true is a people pleasers worst nightmare I’ve laid in bed late at night, paralyzed—heart pounding, throat tight, mind racing—because of the things I’ve been afraid to say. I picture the person I...
May 27, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
Did You Know There Are Two Types Of Narcissism? Why Narcissism Sometimes Sneaks Up On Us. When you hear the word “narcissism,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For many people, it’s an image of someone loud, arrogant, and aggressively...
May 9, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
Habemus Papam! We have a pope, and his name is Leo XIV. White smoke has risen from the Sistine Chapel chimney, and the Catholic world has a new shepherd. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the 267th pontiff and has chosen the name Leo XIV, a choice...
May 8, 2025 | Faith, Femininity, Mental Health Awareness Month
Learning to Mother with Mary: How Her Example Inspires, Intimidates, and Transforms Me When I first became a mother, I knew life would never be the same. I had entered uncharted territory—holy ground—but I didn’t realize how unsteady my footing would often feel. How...
May 2, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
A Reflection on May the 4th, the soul and the fallible Mentor Spirituality entered into my consciousness through Star Wars. The original film carried with it the weight of transcendence beyond the material world, and it blew my six-year-old mind. I couldn’t articulate...
Mar 1, 2024 | Anxiety, Faith
Though He doesn’t always take away our problems, Jesus is the light that dispels our fears and uncertainties. Change can be scary The year 2020 reminded us that it’s really scary to not be in control; to live in time where things can change rapidly from moment...
Feb 29, 2024 | Faith, Gender and Sexuality, Suffering
Misguided ideas about gender and sexuality have infiltrated schools, homes, families, marriages, parishes, and communities, causing many Catholics to feel lost in how to approach conversations related to those topics. How do we react? The possibility for conflict and...
Feb 27, 2024 | Faith, Human Dignity, Identity
Are you waiting for life to look a certain way before focusing on faith? The truth is, you have everything you need right now to become who you are – a saint! Once/Then Reasoning It’s easy to fall into thinking in “once/then” terms when it comes to...
Feb 27, 2024 | Faith, Healthy Living, Human Dignity, Identity
Catholic guilt gets a bad rap. But guilt is actually an amazing spiritual survival instinct that God built into our humanity to reorient us back to our proper identity – back to who we really are. In other words, the fact that you feel guilt is because...
Feb 22, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Healthy Living
When we view failure through the lens of our faith, it becomes possible to see how failure can actually be a doorway to growth, development, and conversion. Failure The word itself is enough to give some of us a mild panic attack. Generally seen as something to avoid...
Feb 21, 2024 | Anxiety, Faith, Trust
St. Therese is generally regarded as a cute saint. But there was much more to her as found in her writing and way of thinking that we can apply to our lives today. St. Therese’s not-so-cute writing In her autobiography, she wrote the types of things that might...
Feb 21, 2024 | Anxiety, Faith, Trust
Though we are limited by our mortal understanding, our souls can find reassurance when we remember the promises of God and Jesus Christ, who is the light of our faith. Light and darkness In his encyclical Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis talks about faith as...
Feb 20, 2024 | Faith, Human Dignity
Guest Blogger Dr. Emily Dowdell, CPI Psychologist, shares her thoughts on standing against racial inequity as a committed Catholic. The #BlackLivesMatter socio-political movement is a call to action It is a cry to be seen, to be heard, and for an end to...
Feb 18, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Faith
I have been thinking and praying about how God is calling me to be a witness, and as a result, have decided it’s time to do something new. A broken culture Most people don’t believe me when I say this, but it’s true: I don’t watch the news. So...
Feb 15, 2024 | Anxiety, Faith, Parenting
Mary is God’s mom, and she is also our mom. If we believe this powerful truth, it can fill us with belonging and love. Mary’s appearance to Juan Diego Our Lady of Guadalupe is such a fascinating apparition of the Blessed Mother. First of all, she poses a...
Feb 15, 2024 | Faith, Femininity, Masculinity
We all experience a longing for Heaven, often manifested as loneliness here on Earth. Let’s talk about this feeling and how we can use it to our benefit. A longing even your spouse can’t fill I am now 17 days away from getting married. Everyone has a...
