May 20, 2026 | Family, Featured Content, Parenting
Earlier this year, my four-year-old daughter stopped sleeping through the night and started experiencing significant emotional distress every time my wife or I left the house. On the one hand, the change came out of nowhere. Maggie is our best sleeper. She...
Apr 4, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Family, Featured Content, Parenting
You’re made to teach one subject to your children. Now that may feel intimidating, especially if school wasn’t something you excelled in. Just the simple reference to being a teacher may give you anxiety because you may not have excelled in chemistry or history. And...
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...
Mar 18, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Family, Featured Content, Parenting, Popular
My four-year-old daughter was standing at the edge of the pool. She wanted to jump. She just wasn’t sure if she could do it. So she looked back at me. She didn’t ask a question. She didn’t say she’s afraid. She just searched my face. Wondering… Am I watching? Am I...
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...
