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...
Sep 26, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Parenting, Popular, Stress
This summer I had a wake-up call in my own living room. The TV had become my friend. As a working mom, there were moments when I needed something to keep the kids occupied while I got things done. While it was happening I didn’t know it, but in retrospect, I leaned on...
Sep 18, 2025 | Communication, Featured Content, Parenting, Podcast, Popular
Three Tips to Navigate Parenthood in the Modern Culture Do you have a plan on how to navigate the difficult parenting challenges you will face raising children in a modern context? Dr. Ray Guarendi sees it every day: parents who love their kids, want to raise them...
Sep 10, 2025 | Featured Content, Parenting, Podcast, Popular, Stress
Parenting is hard. That’s not a shocker right? It’s not an “alert the media” type of revelation. In fact, going into parenting, I knew it would be hard. But I didn’t know it would be this hard and I didn’t know how it would be hard. Having three children, five and...
Sep 2, 2025 | Featured Content, Parenting, Podcast, Popular, Prayer, Stress, Trauma
If you’re raising Catholic kids in today’s culture, here’s the hard truth: Silence is a recipe for disaster. On a recent episode of the Being Human podcast, Dr. Greg spoke with Raquel Rose, a Catholic entrepreneur, former school counselor, and a once-scared college...
Aug 30, 2025 | Anxiety, Featured Content, Popular
I once had a client who came to me for mentorship. She was divorced, her only child had died, and she felt grief-stricken, profoundly alone, and barely able to function. It took every ounce of strength just to tell her story. After the second time we spoke, I remember...
Aug 28, 2025 | Anxiety, Featured Content, Popular
As a frequent YouTube user, I am all too aware of the many influencers promoting self investment, self optimization, etc. I love that stuff. I think it has its place in our pursuit of excellence. These influencers often promote a radical self ownership. This self...
Aug 28, 2025 | Featured Content, Parenting
I’ve had Matt Maher’s song “Wait” playing on repeat this summer. As much as I love the song, I’m equally captivated by his lyric video. Scene after scene of an integral human experience: waiting. In the laundromat, on the subway, at the crosswalk, in your seat at the...
Aug 24, 2025 | Featured Content, Parenting, Podcast, Pregnancy and Life Issues
When it comes to kids and fear, especially fear of the dark, shadows, or “monsters”, parents can feel overwhelmed with the number of options (some of them good, some not so much). After all, a parent can (among other things): Try and reason with the child Install a...
Aug 19, 2025 | Featured Content, Parenting, Podcast, Pregnancy and Life Issues
In 1982, a young couple lost their son Brian just 43 minutes after his birth following a traumatic delivery. Brian was buried in South Dakota where the family had military ties. But the family decided in 2019 to move the body where they could all eventually be buried...
Aug 15, 2025 | Catholic Mindfulness, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Podcast
How does the new Fantastic Four movie reflect the Catholic vision of life, family, and moral responsibility? Lately, Marvel hasn’t exactly been delivering its best. The golden age of the Infinity Stones, Tony Stark, and Steve Rogers feels like a distant memory. Since...
Aug 12, 2025 | Catholic Mindfulness, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Podcast
Why slowing down might be the most countercultural—and fruitful—thing you do today. If you’re anything like me, your day is ruled by a calendar. Meetings. Calls. Google reminders. Maybe even time-blocking your lunch break because otherwise, it disappears. I...
Aug 6, 2025 | Anxiety, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
Panic attacks can be terrifying. If you’ve had one, you know what I mean: your heart’s racing, your chest tightens, your thoughts spiral, and for a second—or several minutes—it feels like you’re going to die. Or like you’re going crazy. Or both. The good news is...
Aug 5, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
Let me start with something surprising: AI therapy works. We’re now seeing clinical outcomes from AI-driven counseling tools that are comparable to—and sometimes even better than—traditional therapy. That’s not science fiction. That’s current reality. Whether it’s...
Aug 4, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
The key to taking the next step forward in your life may be a deeper understanding and application of a singular word: watchfulness. As legend has it, the devil spent a lot of time harassing St. John Vianney. He would light the saint’s bed on fire. He would fill the...
Aug 1, 2025 | Addiction, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
How to settle anxiety in the heart and mind of someone with OCD On a spectrum from discomfort to the loudest of alarm bells, OCD longs, sometimes shouts, for more. It always wants, needs, more. More proof, more evidence, more certainty, more clarity, more...
