June 2025 - Natural Family Planning | Fertility Awareness

From Farm Stand to Your Family Table

Picture a bustling farmer’s market on a sunny summer afternoon – stands full of seasonal produce, conversations with farmers, and people strolling through the street carrying totes with ingredients for that upcoming week’s meals. All thanks to your local farm. There are many reasons to frequent the farmer’s market in your town. In addition to fruits…

PeakDay: A Bright Light for Women’s Health

PeakDay at the Live Action Women’s Summit: A Bright Light for Women’s Health CCL was honored to represent PeakDay at the innagural Live Action Women’s Summit: Back to Eden—a beautiful gathering of over 1,000 women united by a powerful theme: honoring the dignity of women as life-givers. While the main stage featured dynamic speakers and…

Create Hope-5 Easy Ways to Share NFP

“Pursue a lasting love…Marriage. Create Hope for the Future!” That is the theme for this year’s National NFP Week, July 20 – 26. Have you wondered, as someone who practices NFP and sees the fruits and benefits every day, how you can educate, inform, promote and support this week of awareness? CCL has you covered!…

Learning to Love NFP

Carlos de la Torre and Mariana Lopez have been married for fifteen years and have four beautiful children. They both have a background in software engineering and Mariana is now a stay-at-home mom who homeschools their children. They have been enthusiastic NFP teachers for almost ten years. However, when they began their marriage, they were…

Pirates, Cod Liver Oil and Chewables

Typically, my wife Jen is in charge of our family’s nutritional health. Technically, I can produce or procure food and keep children alive when she is unavailable but grilling and DoorDash isn’t a sustainable lifestyle. I balance this with consistency in vitamin consumption and management. My personal strategy began when I discovered that the Recommended…

Healthy Nutrition and Fertility for Men

It’s common to think of fertility as primarily a woman’s issue, but men have a key role in the overall reproductive health of a couple. There are many factors that contribute to male reproductive health, including environment, nutrition, and physical activity. We’ll largely focus on the nutrition component in this article. Fueling our bodies with…

It Will Be Heaven

I’ve done it. I’ve taken the plunge. Practically everyone seemed to be doing it, especially within certain women’s circles. As much as I hate to admit it, I’ve succumbed to peer pressure. I’ve entered the world of sourdough bread making. I have fond memories of my mom making potato sourdough bread for our family regularly…

The Blessings of Teaching NFP

God never ceases to amaze me with the opportunities He gives me in my life. I never intended to become a Natural Family Planning teacher with CCL. Before we got married my husband and I took the CCL class in our area. Like many couples, we struggled to find a class we could both attend…