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Gaining Sixty Pounds: Three Lessons I Learned About True Beauty

Gaining Sixty Pounds: Three Lessons I Learned About True Beauty

When you choose to see your inherent worth in God’s eyes, you will begin to contemplate the height, length, width, and breadth of His mindfulness of every fiber of your being.

BIS Reads // St. Hildegard’s Garden

BIS Reads // St. Hildegard’s Garden

St. Hildegard’s Garden: Recipes and Remedies for Healing Body and Soul introduces readers to Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a Doctor of the Church whose knowledge of natural health and nutrition started in the garden of God’s creation.

Saint Kateri’s Legacy: How Shame Does Not Have to Scar Us

Saint Kateri’s Legacy: How Shame Does Not Have to Scar Us

On her feast day, we hear how Saint Kateri Tekakwitha teaches us that our scars cannot take away our worth and beauty in Christ.

The Healing Power of Community After Trauma

The Healing Power of Community After Trauma

Trauma can overwhelm us, but community can offer healing. Learn how community supported Mary through the most sorrowful moments of her life.

Trusting Through Trials

Trusting Through Trials

During uncertainty, unknowns, and trials that never seem to end, let us trust that the Lord will hold us close and never let us go.

He Sees You and Wants to Redeem You

He Sees You and Wants to Redeem You

Hear how the Lord used one woman's postpartum experience to heal her memories, redeem her experiences, and open the door for her to help other women suffering through postpartum.

Guiding Little Hearts: The Importance of Taking Your Kids to Confession

Guiding Little Hearts: The Importance of Taking Your Kids to Confession

Blessed Is She offers a free, downloadable Examination of Conscience for Kids, which is a great way to help them prepare for the Sacrament of Confession.
Scripture Verses to Help Us Forgive

Scripture Verses to Help Us Forgive

How do we learn to forgive? Specific Scripture verses teach us how to forgive one another, including ourselves.
Arise in Freedom from Pornography

Arise in Freedom from Pornography

Arise is a free 21-day recovery program to help you address these areas and gives practical tools to quit pornography for good.
How to Untangle Our Feminine Hearts From the Knots of Our Wounds

How to Untangle Our Feminine Hearts From the Knots of Our Wounds

It’s in the heart that we feel love and give love. Our hearts are also the place where we hold the pain from our wounds. Ask the Lord to untangle your heart from any wounds and replace them with His truth, love, and mercy.

REMAIN Series // Lost for Words - Blessed Is She

REMAIN Series // Lost for Words

I was having a particularly rough month and was feeling lost. I had recently shared about my broken family history (something I hadn’t done in a long time). Revisiting all...
The Problem with Toxic Shame - Blessed Is She

The Problem with Toxic Shame

In His goodness, God has turned the shame I carried all my life into His fame. He has made me into a survivor with a purpose: to let men and...