Season of Waiting With Christmas two days away, I find myself reflecting on Seasons of Waiting we experience in life. For the longest time, waiting has always sounded like such a passive thing, like you're just sitting around and waiting for something to happen when the reality is seasons of waiting are some of the most active times of life! Look at Mary: as soon as she finds out she is expecting Jesus, Mary sets out "in haste" to go visit her cousin Elizabeth to help he

Some lessons I learned while teaching as a single woman

Your fertility is not a race. Your cycle is not a timer counting down. And you are not “behind.”

A little Advent encouragement for anyone suffering in their fertility journey

I want you to know how incredibly common and incredibly frustrating that experience is. Many of the women and couples I work with have spent months or years feeling confused, unseen, or brushed off. They’re told their tests look fine. Their ultrasound is fine. Their hormones are fine. Yet… they’re not getting pregnant and ultimately they end up feeling totally dismissed.

Learn about the different surgeries used by NaPro surgeons to treat common reproductive health conditions

A beautiful prayer for any difficulty.

Pelvic floor therapy can be a gentle and powerful tool in restoring balance, bodily integration, and wholeness to women in any stage of life.

Natural Family Planning...when lived with prayer, humility, and openness, is one of the most profound ways a couple can honor God with their marriage. It requires faith. It requires communication. It requires surrender. It requires trust.

I went through the 13 month training process to become a Creighton Model FertilityCare Practitioner (FCP) back in 2017-2018. The training process for all FCPs involves an 8 day Education Phase, followed by a 6 month Supervised Practicum, another week long Education Phase, and a second 6 month Supervised Practicum which includes a site visit from your supervisor and a final exam. Phew! At the end of my second Education Phase, the director of the program approached me and sai

To be open to life is to be open to death. A reflection on discerning family size after pregnancy loss, the loss of a child, or the near loss of the mother.

Learn more about surgical NaProTECHNOLOGY in this blog post

How to extend yourself grace during the postpartum period.

If you want to build confidence, learn the Creighton Model System in full, reach whatever goals you entered Creighton with, then sticking with the follow up schedule is extremely advantageous to you.

Learn how to build good habits by using simple habit-stacking strategies that make good habits and daily Creighton observations second nature.

Embracing the rhythms and seasons in life can make your fertility journey more fruitful.

When couples come to us after months or even years of trying to conceive, many share the same story. More or less, at some point, a doctor briefly looked at their medical history, ran a few quick tests, and said, “You’re infertile.” The word "infertile" alone can feel like a door slamming shut.

How VRPM can wreak havoc on charts and what you can do about it.

Lies and false beliefs women believe about themselves, their fertility, and their struggles.

This blog post discusses the Creighton Model FertilityCare System, NaProTECHNOLOGY, and a an intro to Surgical NaProTECHNOLOGY