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Blessed Chats: Fertility // An Honest Post about NFP - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Fertility // An Honest Post about NFP

Welcome to our first Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come...
Blessed Chats: Fertility // Hyperfertility - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Fertility // Hyperfertility

Welcome to our first Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come...
Blessed Chats: Fertility // From Contraception to Natural Family Planning - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Fertility // From Contraception to Natural Family Planning

Welcome to our first Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come...
Blessed Chats: Fertility // Secondary Infertility - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Fertility // Secondary Infertility

Welcome to our first Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come...
Blessed Chats: Fertility // A Surprise Baby - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Fertility // A Surprise Baby

Welcome to our first Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come...
Saints + Bible Verses to Turn to When Struggling with Infertility - Blessed Is She

Saints + Bible Verses to Turn to When Struggling with Infertility

The intercession of the Saints is real and powerful. Throughout my struggle with secondary infertility I have found such comfort and hope in asking the Saints’ intercession. Spiritual Support During...
Scripture Verses to Pray for Your Marriage - Blessed Is She

Scripture Verses to Pray for Your Marriage

My husband and I have often wondered together in awe of our families’ shared history of long marriages. We ourselves will celebrate 21 years of marriage this month. Both sets...
How to Start Praying with Your Spouse (Finding What Works for You) - Blessed Is She

How to Start Praying with Your Spouse (Finding What Works for You)

Though not newlyweds, my husband and I are still fairly new to this whole marriage thing. Over the last three and a half years, we have realized over and over...
Why Do Catholic Weddings Only Happen in Churches? - Blessed Is She

Why Do Catholic Weddings Only Happen in Churches?

I spent four years working as an editor at a bridal magazine. During that time, my colleagues and I reviewed hundreds of wedding submissions each week, carefully considering each one...
The Day I Let Christ Into My Bedroom - Blessed Is She

The Day I Let Christ Into My Bedroom

When I was a little girl, my godmother was divorced from her abusive husband and could not remarry in the Church without an annulment (which she refused to try to...
Resources for Pornography Addiction - Blessed Is She

Resources for Pornography Addiction

Our culture is saturated with porn. Most of us have either suffered from addiction to porn or know someone who does (even if we aren't aware of it). Pornography is...
Sex and the Catholic Feminist Review - Blessed Is She

Sex and the Catholic Feminist Review

Sex, Catholicism, and feminism. Do I have your attention? These words are spoken about more frequently these days, both online and in Catholic culture. You might not think that those...