Supporting Catholic women emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. A quick reminder: You’re receiving these emails because you signed up for something I offered for free or purchased one of my products. Everything I create is designed to help you find more peace and more fully enjoy your one precious life, through practical psychological tools integrated with our beautiful Catholic faith. I’m so glad you’re here! Last week, I walked away from a conversation feeling really angry. I’d been...
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Supporting Catholic women emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. If you're still here reading this email... Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here. I have a little gift for you in this email for being here on my email list. 💜 As a little refresher, I'm a former Catholic therapist, now coach and educator, on a mission to share my counseling tools with Catholic women everywhere. Why? Because I believe that many of us can use these tools on our own. I do almost every...
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Supporting Catholic women emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Week 3 Advent Reflection: Joy That Doesn’t Depend on Circumstances As we enter the third week of Advent through Gaudete Sunday, we’re invited to meditate on joy. Not the fleeting emotion of happiness… but the deeper, steadier, God-rooted joy that can coexist with exhaustion, disappointment, or even pain and suffering. This is the kind of joy the Church means when she calls it a Fruit of the Spirit. A Fruit of the Spirit is...
11 months ago • 4 min read
Supporting Catholic women emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Faith: The Virtue We Rely on Most… and Notice Least The second candle of Advent invites us into faith. Faith is often the virtue we don’t fully appreciate until we’re asked to use it. In Scripture, countless people asked Jesus for miracles because they were human. We long for something tangible in our faith because we can point to it and say: “See? God is here. He’s listening. He’s acting.” Miracles give us clarity. But faith...
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Supporting Catholic women emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. First Week of Advent Reflection: Hope Advent always begins with hope. But if we're honest, it's not always easy to actually hold onto hope. Hope is often easiest to grasp when life is going well. When blessings feel abundant.When prayers seem answered.When peace flows freely and joy comes naturally. In those moments, it’s effortless to “taste and see that the Lord is good.” But it’s an entirely different story when we’re...
11 months ago • 4 min read