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...
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...
Mar 4, 2024 | Pornography, Relationships
There are two types of pornography: physical and emotional. Let’s talk about what emotional pornography is and why it tends to target and hurt women. Sex sells Marketing in our culture is almost exclusively based on sex. We have known this for years, and...
Feb 29, 2024 | Human Dignity, Identity, Relationships
Guest blogger and CatholicPsych Institute psychotherapist, Sean Faulkner, LPC, shares what should define our identity, and what shouldn’t. God is in our identity There are many ways that we try to define ourselves. We so often seek to determine our identity...
Feb 27, 2024 | Catholic Mindfulness, Communication, Relationships
Conflict in relationships is unfortunately unavoidable. But how we get through said conflict is a skill we can try to develop. Here are my thoughts on how to get better at resolving conflict. Consider the last argument or disagreement you had with a loved one During...
Feb 22, 2024 | Relationships
I want to give some tips for online dating, to the very large population of single men and women using the same means to find their vocation that Barbra and I did. The love of my life I married the love of my life. I met the one woman in the world chosen for me from...
Feb 15, 2024 | Femininity, Masculinity, Relationships
Objectifying women is a result of men’s weakness and lack of virtue. I learned as a young student (and am still learning) how the Holy spirit can change our hearts and fill us with virtue. Beautiful women are NOT the problem Before I transferred to Franciscan...
Feb 15, 2024 | Femininity, Masculinity, Relationships
I’m the kind of person who thinks I’m always right. But as I’ve learned in my marriage, this kind of thinking often leads me to be wrong. Let’s talk about about how men and women being wired differently leads to arguing in marriage. Something...
Feb 14, 2024 | Identity, Relationships
This month brings with it one of the most loved and hated days of the whole year- Valentine’s Day. Whether you are in a relationship or not, everyone of us can celebrate love, true love, on this popular holiday. What really gets commercialized on Valentine’s...
Feb 14, 2024 | Relationships
As a Catholic I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. I’d like to share my thoughts on why sex in marriage is so important when it comes to connecting us to God. In the image of God I will admit, I did not watch the Grammy’s last night. However as...
Feb 13, 2024 | Dating, Relationships
There are so many lists of tips and tricks for dating, and so many opinions on what to look for in a spouse that I decided to boil everything down to one very simple idea, and that is the importance of friendship in marriage. The Essence of a Successful Marriage...
Feb 13, 2024 | Faith, Gender and Sexuality, Popular, Relationships
Here’s one missing distinction and three false dichotomies to sum up the issues with the Vatican Declaration at first glance. We are now in a time of the battle between a culture of life and a culture of death.” – Pope St. John Paul II The Vatican...
Feb 13, 2024 | Communication, Faith, Human Dignity, Popular, Relationships
In this excerpt from the Being Human Podcast, Dr. Bottaro discusses why we should try to listen with curiosity to opinions held by “the other side,” something Jesus Himself has taught us to do. Excerpt from Being Human Podcast Episode #123: Fake...
Feb 9, 2024 | Human Dignity, Popular, Relationships
Labeling relationships as “toxic” is widespread right now; let’s take a Catholic approach to difficult relationships and examine why they’re not always meant to be easy. Navigating difficult relationships Why is this relationship so draining?...
Feb 8, 2024 | Dating, Healthy Living, Relationships
Hanging out and dating are two very separate things, and it seems like one is winning out in today’s society. Let’s talk about why dating is so important and why it shouldn’t intimidate men and women! Modern dating culture: hanging out It seems that...
Feb 7, 2024 | Femininity, Masculinity, Relationships
Some gender differences are natural, while others may be enforced by the society we live in. Let’s take a psychological approach to these differences and discuss what we can learn. Verily – “Holding Back Tears” First of all, I would like to...
