Why you deserve fertility awareness, not contraception

This isn't a post to make you mad, it's a post to invite you to something greater. I'm a copywriter - and most of my clients are fertility awareness instructors or restorative reproductive health doctors. Every single day I am seeing the power of fertility awareness/natural family planning and writing about this revolutionary approach to …

On Holy Communion & the Coronavirus

The Catholic Church hasn’t been exempt from the coronavirus panic. My parish and diocese and many others have said they’ll be taking precautions like not including the sign of peace at Mass, sanitizing the holy water fonts and refilling them regularly, not using the chalice and only have communion under one species, and encouraging the …

How We’ve Paid Off 21K in Student Loan Debt in 4 Months

“For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” // Hebrews 12:11 My last post addressed our “why” -- why we made the decision to stop dancing with debt and be done with debt for good. It may …

Why We’re Kicking Debt to the Curb

HEY! Does anyone still visit my blog anymore? It’s been awhile. A lot has happened since I last wrote 6 months ago. In learning and doing and experiencing new things - particularly in the realms of mental health and finance - I have new inspiration to write on these two topics.  On the one hand, …

Jesus Is Not a Prop for Your Political Agenda

Talking with my husband over some shrimp fried rice (it was a Friday and it’s Lent…), we were discussing politicians and public figures -- people such as Nancy Pelosi, NY governor Andrew Cuomo, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who are Catholic, publicly wear ashes on Ash Wednesday, write articles for America Magazine, and say they do what …