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 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 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...
Mar 4, 2024 | Femininity, Masculinity, Parenting
Modern culture seems to no longer see why men and women need each other, especially when it comes to the structure of a family. God designed the family so that both men and women’s contributions are needed. You probably already know by now that I have a weekly...
Feb 22, 2024 | Parenting
We are sharing an excerpt from Kathryn Anne “Casey’s book, “Journey In Love, A Catholic Mother’s Prayers After Prenatal Diagnosis. (You can find a link at the bottom of this page to purchase the book) The ultrasound was our first opportunity to...
Feb 21, 2024 | Parenting
My wife gave birth to our first son, Elijah. This event has turned my life upside down. Here are some of my thoughts on having a baby. 3 thoughts I’ve had over the past year What I thought I knew before was only a shadow of knowledge, and what I felt before...
Feb 21, 2024 | Parenting
Jenny Uebbing shares how you can try to be more present with your children during the times when you’d rather escape parenting. Parenting in 21st century America “Mommy, make a happy face at me.” I look up from the glow of my laptop, irritated, hearing for...
Feb 20, 2024 | Catholic Mindfulness, Parenting
Guest blogger Barbra Bottaro reflects on how both motherhood and mindfulness can exist at the same time, especially when it seems impossible. 10:47am on a Wednesday We were enduring the 4th snowstorm in three weeks, and it was the first day of Spring. We...
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 6, 2024 | Catholic Mindfulness, Catholic Psychology, Parenting
Let’s get to know Teresa Violette, mentor at CatholicPsych Institute and co-creator of Catholic Mindfulness for students! On Monday, my team and I re-launched our unique program Catholic Mindfulness for Students, so I thought it would be a good time to introduce...
