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...
Dec 3, 2025 | Dealing with loss, Featured Content
When something breaks, my first instinct is to fix it and make it look like it did before. But sometimes, what’s shattered can’t be glued together the way it was. And maybe, just maybe, it’s not supposed to be. My husband Tom died suddenly in 2019. He was 46, healthy,...
Nov 30, 2025 | ADHD, Featured Content
It’s not about effort. It’s about wiring — and learning to love through difference. The Invisible Third Partner When ADHD enters a relationship, it doesn’t just affect one person. It becomes the third partner in the room — shaping communication, rhythms, and even the...
Nov 26, 2025 | ADHD, Featured Content
What do you do when the person who’s supposed to love you the most causes your deepest wounds? It’s one of the hardest spiritual and emotional challenges a person can face: trying to honor your parents when the relationship itself feels unsafe, controlling, or deeply...
Nov 22, 2025 | ADHD, Featured Content
Understanding how your brain is wired can transform shame into compassion. When I first began learning about ADHD, I thought it meant I just had to “try harder” to focus — that I needed more discipline, more willpower, more organization. But the more I read, listened,...
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...
Nov 15, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
Why ADHD isn’t a failure of focus, but First of All, We Named It Wrong If we named ADHD more accurately, we’d probably call it Executive Functioning Disorder.Because what’s really affected isn’t attention itself — it’s the brain’s management system: the part that...
Nov 13, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
In 452 AD, Pope St. Leo the Great rode out to meet Attila the Hun, who was threatening to overtake and destroy Rome. To that point, Attila the Hun was one of history’s most feared figures, a complex blend of brutal warrior and shrewd diplomat. As the ruler of the...
Nov 8, 2025 | ADHD, Featured Content, Popular
How my chaotic brain became a doorway to grace When I was younger, I was always in trouble — at home, at school, everywhere.I couldn’t stop talking. I couldn’t focus. I couldn’t remember. I’m pretty sure I missed most of what kids learn from first through sixth grade....
Nov 6, 2025 | Dealing with loss, Featured Content, Popular, Relationships
Every November, the Church pauses our normal rhythm of life and hands us a strange but beautiful invitation: Remember death In a world that avoids silence, glorifies youth, and pretends death is far away, the Church stands apart. She looks us straight in the eye and...
Nov 3, 2025 | Catholic Mindfulness, Catholic Psychology, Communication, Featured Content, Popular, Relationships
Every once in a while, someone asks:Is this trauma response coming from the brain… or the body… or the relationship? The answer is yes. We like categories. We want to know if healing is neurological or emotional, cognitive or behavioral, relational or somatic. But the...
Nov 1, 2025 | ADHD, Featured Content, Popular
What does, “That’s so ADHD,” really mean? We’ve all said it: “That’s so ADHD!” Maybe it’s when your friend forgets where they put their keys. Or when you scroll through Instagram a little longer than you meant to before finishing a simple task. Or when you get so...
Oct 29, 2025 | Featured Content, Femininity, Masculinity, Popular
How a pre-modern biology lesson slipped into our theology and how John Paul II shows us the way forward. The Problem of Limited Data St. Thomas Aquinas is a towering saint, doctor of the Church, unmatched synthesizer of faith and reason who built parts of his...
Oct 22, 2025 | Communication, Featured Content, Popular, Relationships
When most people hear Theology of the Body, they immediately think about sex, marriage, and family life. And it’s no surprise, St. John Paul II had profound insights into these areas, and his teaching has been a lifeline for many Catholics navigating modern confusion...
Oct 16, 2025 | Communication, Featured Content, Parenting, Popular, Positive Psychology, Relationships
This week on the Being Human Podcast, Fr. Dave told a story about an interaction with his dad when he was in eighth-grade that, as a young father, deeply moved me. Fr. Dave started rattling off a fact about Pikes Peak to his dad. Engaged in the conversation, his dad...
Oct 8, 2025 | Anxiety, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, OCD, Personality Disorders, Popular, Prayer
When most people hear “OCD,” they think of neat freaks, color-coded closets, or someone who just really likes things tidy. Maybe they picture a coworker joking, “I’m so OCD about my desk.” But that’s not always what it means to have an OCD part. Having a part...
Oct 1, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Parenting, Popular, Prayer, Suffering
When I first became a mom, I never would have said I thought holiness meant control. What I told myself was that I was pursuing holiness in my vocation, trying to live it as perfectly as possible. That doesn’t sound like a bad goal, right? But only later did I begin...
Sep 29, 2025 | Dealing with loss, Featured Content, Parenting, Popular, Suffering, Trauma
When Stefanie’s daughter Anna was born, she arrived early and fragile. Within hours, she was whisked into the NICU. Stefanie, a new mother and a recent convert to Catholicism, found herself longing to do what every mother instinctively wants: to pick up her baby and...
