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 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...
Jul 24, 2025 | Addiction, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Trauma
Oof. That question. No one really wants to ask it—and certainly no one wants to answer it. But if we’re honest? Most of us are probably somewhere on the yes spectrum. And listen—no judgment if that’s you. Because it’s me, too. I have ADHD.I didn’t stand a chance.I...
Jul 22, 2025 | Addiction, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Trauma
When we think of addiction, our minds often go straight to the behavior: the bottle, the pills, the porn, the gambling. We focus on the what. But if we stop there, we miss the deeper truth—the why. The reality is this: every addiction is a trauma story. I’ve...
Mar 5, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Positive Psychology, Trauma
Catholic Psychology recognizes the Resurrection of Christ as a reason to hope while we suffer our own traumas. The Resurrection of Christ is our source of hope Integrating the field of psychology into a Catholic framework is not an easy task when you consider that...
Mar 5, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Healing, Trauma
Maura Preszler, author and non-profit leader, promotes healing after trauma and the idea that spiritual and mental health are connected. Mental illness does not mean you don’t pray enough On the CatholicPsych Facebook page, I once shared a post that ended...
Feb 21, 2024 | Pregnancy and Life Issues, Trauma
There is no doubt in my mind that abortion hurts women. Let’s talk about the research that would have us believe otherwise and why I’m so upset about it. A flawed study “Abortion is found to have little effect on women’s mental health.” WHAT?! Is this...
