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BIS Reads // Made Good: Overcoming the Lies That Keep Women at War With Their Bodies

BIS Reads // Made Good: Overcoming the Lies That Keep Women at War With Their Bodies

Made Good by Florencia Moynihan is a handbook for all women seeking to live health and wholeness as daughters of God.

Three Reminders From Our Lady of Lourdes for Daily Life

Three Reminders From Our Lady of Lourdes for Daily Life

As we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, let us consider three reminders that apply to our daily life.

“Flowers”: What Two Songs Get Right and Wrong About Healing

“Flowers”: What Two Songs Get Right and Wrong About Healing

A new year feels like a waiting garden: What might it hold this year? What hopes and dreams can I plant? . . . It's time to dream of flowers.

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.