September 2025 - Natural Family Planning | Fertility Awareness

Align Your Fertility App With Your Faith

Fertility tracking is powerful. For young girls, women and couples, it opens a door to self-knowledge and informed decision-making. But we live in a digital world where most apps are built for profit, not for your well-being. It’s worth asking: Does your fertility app align with your values? If you’re using a secular app, the…

NFP: The Best-Kept Secret

As a Catholic married couple, we want to let you in on what might be one of the best-kept secrets in the Catholic Church: Natural Family Planning (NFP). You’ve probably heard of NFP during marriage prep, where engaged couples check off a box in Pre-Cana. But here’s the truth: NFP isn’t just for newlyweds. It’s…

Green Places, God Spaces, Learning to See

Early in our marriage, our first little backyard had a fruiting mulberry tree that became a center of our family life. Its life and growth marked the seasons, with spring being an especially messy one as we tracked berries from it into the house. We hung a swing from a low branch and spent precious…

Seasons of Togetherness

“Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes. They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart…” [Acts 2:46] I wanted to open with this verse from the Acts of the Apostles because it illustrates how the first apostles, as a family of…

Why Fertility Education Matters

At Dakota Hope Clinic, nurse and fertility educator Janis Neumann sees firsthand how little many young women know about their cycles. “I have found that many do not even keep track of their periods,” she says. “When they begin to understand, it empowers them.” Information that Empowers To bridge that gap, Janis introduces girls to…

Start to Chart: Smarter Fertility and Healthier You

Have you ever wished you understood your cycle better? So many women go through life with little more than a vague sense of what their monthly rhythms mean for their health, energy, and fertility. The truth is, your body is giving you valuable information every single day—you just need the tools to understand it. That’s…

What is the Mother Daughter Your Body & Cycle Program?

When it comes to helping our daughters understand their bodies, many moms wonder: Where do I even start? The Mother Daughter: Your Body & Cycle program was created to answer that question. It’s a flexible, practical, and faith-informed course that helps moms and daughters learn together about fertility, the menstrual cycle, and whole-body health. This…

Helping Our Daughters Embrace the Beauty of Their Bodies

Every mom wants to give her daughter the best start as she approaches womanhood. Yet, so many young women, at some point in life, discover something about their fertility and ask, “Why didn’t I know this earlier?” Whether it’s when they encounter challenges with their cycles, face fertility struggles, or take a Natural Family Planning…