August 2024 - Natural Family Planning | Fertility Awareness

God’s Way for Marriage

Stephen and Girley learned about NFP in their marriage prep classes in both the Philippines and the US. Although they were both cradle Catholics, by the time they married, they had stopped practicing their faith. “I wanted to get married in the Church. But, I was stubborn and wanted the freedom to do things my…

Volunteers Plant, God Harvests

Volunteers are the heart of Couple to Couple League. You could even say that while God is the “Lord of the Harvest,” volunteers are the faithful workers that have been sent out to labor in the field of the CCL ministry. The thousands of couples learning NFP each year from CCL all connect with a…

New Tricks

Our instructor with a giant flip chart. A mercury thermometer. Paper charts, easily misplaced around the house. These are my early memories of practicing NFP. The digital thermometer? Revolutionary! Eventually, NFP became so routine that we would just track my biomarkers in a little notebook. Then came the PeakDay app. Mind blown! Who knew tracking…

From Grief and Loss to Healing

Couple to Couple League is privileged to speak with a variety of people in the course of a normal work week. Most of these podcast interviews are a celebration of achievements and journeys with joyful outcomes. Some interviews, however, have dealt with subjects of profound grief and heartbreaking loss. Three guests, Mariana Kuhlman, Kelly Breaux…

The Importance of Christian Community

Everyone Needs a Jason and Linda in Their Lives When my husband and I became engaged over 26 years ago, we only knew a few couples who were interested in learning and using NFP like we were. There we were, a young couple striving to live out the call to generosity of life and responsible…

Finding Freedom in “Not So Perfect” Charting

Summertime is full of lots of deviations from normal routine with vacations and family time around every corner. This can sometimes cause you to miss information on your fertility chart leading to an unsuccessful interpretation of Phase 3, shown as ‘green’ in PeakDay all the way to the end of a cycle. This time of…

Embracing the NFP Lifestyle

Josh and Alison learned the CCL Sympto-Thermal method from a home study course, with Alison’s mother, a CCL teaching couple, as a mentor. For Alison, NFP had been a part of her family’s ethos for many years. Josh enthusiastically embraced the lifestyle when they married. He says, “Being kind of a nerd, it was great…

Misunderstood in the Modern World

Freedom is such a misunderstood word in the modern world, almost as misunderstood as NFP. Fortunately a clearer understanding of one can lead to a better understanding of the other. Many people seem to think that freedom means merely the license to do something independent of any constraint. The freedom to stay up until 2am…

Authentic Freedom

For Nick and Megan, a CCL Teaching Couple and military family, understanding their shared fertility and forming themselves to God’s plan for marriage gives them a sense of freedom. Megan feels that freedom is a misunderstood concept in our culture today. “Society teaches us that freedom means the ability to do whatever we want, whenever…

Hello Sweet Summer!

Ahhh, summer – the time of year to embrace hot temps, longer days, backyard parties, and sunny vacation spots. It is also the time of year to focus on light and refreshing foods. Let’s talk about summer seasonal ingredients, how to prepare them, and how to eat healthy even on vacation. Say hello to your…