Discern Your Vocation Without Fear

By Adam Cross LMFT Discerning your vocation can feel overwhelming. Whether you’re thinking about marriage, priesthood, or religious life, it’s common to feel the pressure of getting it “right.” But here’s the good news: God isn’t trying to trick you. He’s not hiding your vocation like a secret code you have to crack. He wants…

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Why Leisurely Work Is the Secret to Human Flourishing

Jul 29 Written By Joshua Hernandez Guerrero Have you ever felt like your job was slowly draining the life out of you—even if it’s something you once loved? We live in a culture that glorifies hustle, productivity, and constant motion. Somewhere along the way, we began to believe that value comes only from doing. As a result,…

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The Ache Within the Ache

Jul 1  Written By Kolbe Young Why We Can’t Stop: Masturbation, the Nervous System, & the Body of Christ There’s a loneliness hidden in plain sight —a silent pulse beneath the lives of so many who long to do right by God, by their relationships, and by their own hearts. It doesn’t always show up as…

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Your Marriage – The Bear

Marriage, Catholic Marriage, Christian Counseling, Relationships, Hulu The Bear, Spiritual Growth, Grace in Suffering, Marriage Therapy, Theology of the Body, Faith and Media

More Than We Can Think: Coming Home Through the Body

I want to begin with an esoteric but favorite quote of mine: “Experiencing is a myriad richness that exceeds any number of separated facets. We cannot think all that just was. We feel more than we can think, and we live more than we can feel. And if we enter into what we feel in…

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The Cost—and Gift—of Incarnational Living

A Reflection on Embodied Healing As we’ve been exploring practices of embodied healing—slowing down, tending to the nervous system, honoring emotions and sensations—I want to begin introducing a word that gives deeper meaning and theological grounding to this healing journey: Incarnational. It’s a word rooted in the Latin incarnare—to make flesh. And central to our…

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To Offer It Up… Or Give It Up

I’m going to say something that might rattle you: We are made to flourish—even on this side of eternity. Redemption begins now. Each time we pray the Our Father and say, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven,” we aren’t just hoping for Heaven as some far off,…

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Grace in the Flesh: Why Healing Must Be Embodied

Introduction: The Limits of Talk Therapy What does it truly mean to heal? I hope by the end of this reflection, you’ll have a clearer, deeper answer to that question. As the intro title suggests, we’re exploring what psychotherapy can look like beyond the traditional “talk therapy” model. But before we begin, let me be…

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The Lift

Have you ever heard the saying check on your strong friends? Sometimes we have friends in our lives who seem like they have it altogether and sometimes we have friends who are very clearly in need of our help and support. As Catholics, we are called to be the support for our strong and struggling…

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