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Why Some Catholics Choose Mentorship Over Therapy
More Catholics are choosing daily mentorship over weekly therapy. A clinical psychologist explains the reasons: the limits of the 45-minute session, the insurance model, and healing through relationship.
Have Mercy: The Antidote to Scrupulosity
While most of us will never be formally diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, that does not mean we are free of obsessions and compulsions of our own.
How to Find Catholic Mental Health Support
A practical guide to finding Catholic mental health support: therapists, mentorship, spiritual direction, and crisis care, plus the questions to ask before you choose.
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ADHD in Marriage — When Two Brains Share a Life
When ADHD enters a relationship, it doesn’t just affect one person. It becomes a third partner — shaping communication, rhythms, and even…
Loving Difficult Parents: What St. Francis Teaches About Family and Freedom
It’s one of the hardest spiritual and emotional challenges a person can face: trying to honor your parents when the relationship feels…
Inside the ADHD Brain — The Science Behind the Struggle
When I first began learning about ADHD, I thought it meant I just had to “try harder” to focus — that I needed more…
Practicing Mercy at the Holidays
Perhaps despite your best intentions, there is something about going home that can bring you back 20 years in the blink of an eye…
Attention Deficit? More like Executive Functioning Deficit
If we named ADHD more accurately, we’d probably call it Executive Functioning Disorder. it doesn’t really affected attention itself, it…
From Attila to AI: Why the Church Must Defend Humanity Again
What It Means to Be Human? This is the question our culture is asking, sometimes without knowing it, is simple: what is a person?
ADHD and Me, The Handicap That’s Getting Me to Heaven
I had every classic sign of ADHD, long before anyone called it that.Detentions, missed recess, notes home, “Needs Improvement” stamped on…
Memento Mori: Three Powerful Truths Offered by the Church in November
When someone experiences trauma it doesn’t just live in memory. It gets wired into the brain. Certain triggers…
Why You Can’t Separate Brain, Body, and Relationship
When someone experiences trauma it doesn’t just live in memory. It gets wired into the brain. Certain triggers…
That’s So ADHD!
But here’s the big question: What’s the difference between someone having an “ADHD moment” and someone who actually has ADHD?
Correcting Aquinas: Why One Small Error Still Wounds the Church
St. Thomas Aquinas built parts of his anthropology on Aristotle’s biology. From that premise, Aquinas could write that woman is…
Beyond the Bedroom: What JP2 Really Taught in Theology of the Body
Reducing Theology of the Body to “Catholic sex talks” is like reducing the ocean to a swimming pool. You’re missing the depth, the…
“You Don’t Have to Impress Me”: The Sentence Every Child Needs to Hear
“You don’t have to impress me for me to love you.” That one sentence did what hours of lecturing can’t. It cut through the fear that…
What OCD Really Feels Like (And Why It’s Misunderstood)
Having a part within you that is OCD doesn’t automatically equate to being organized or clean. OCD is brutal. It’s painful. It’s…
What St. Thérèse Knew About Being Supermom
When I first became a mom, I never would have said I thought holiness meant control. What I told myself was that I was…
Finding Mary in the NICU: Learning to Trust When Control Slips Away
When Stefanie’s daughter Anna was born, she arrived early and fragile. Within hours, she was whisked into the…
Parenting and the Trap of Counterfeit Connection
The TV had become my friend. As a working mom, there were moments when I needed something to keep the kids occupied while…
Healing with Padre Pio: The Interplay of Truth and Compassion
Padre Pio is, in many ways, famous for his direct and often harsh way of communicating the truth in the confessional. Here are just two…
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?
Parents, This Changes Everything…Literally
If you’re raising Catholic kids in today’s culture, here’s the hard truth: faith won’t grow in silence. In a fallen world, parenting means…
Raising Faithful Kids in a Fallen World: 5 Lessons from a Former School Counselor and Single Mom
If you’re raising Catholic kids in today’s culture, here’s the hard truth: faith won’t grow in silence. In a fallen world, parenting means…
“Other People Have It Worse”: The Double-Edged Nature of Comparison
Here’s the deeper truth: our suffering matters. It matters so much that when we dare to voice it aloud, a part of…
Is Self-Reflection Selfish?
I am all too aware of the many influencers promoting self investment. A core question arises though, does make better people?
Waiting with St. Monica
Why is waiting on the Lord so uncomfortable? One reason I find is that it reminds me that I am not ultimately in control of…
Helping Children Face Spiritual Fears The “Big God, Little Devil” Way
Baby Brian’s body was completely incorrupt. Thirty-seven years in the ground, and he looked as though he had just fallen asleep—rosy…
Three Parenting Lessons from an Incorrupt Baby
Baby Brian’s body was completely incorrupt. Thirty-seven years in the ground, and he looked as though he had just fallen asleep—rosy…
The Fantastic Four as a Symbol of Family
How does the new Fantastic Four movie reflect the Catholic vision of life, family, and moral responsibility?