Since I started sharing about NFP, I've heard a lot of pushback about how I focus too much on the negative, how my approach will turn people off from practicing NFP, and I should talk more about the blessings and benefits. It's a fair judgment, but one I don't agree with. Because it was precisely that approach that made the practice of NFP so needlessly miserable for me.

In today's episode, I'm getting super vulnerable to share my story, no sugarcoating, just honesty. It's painful and brutal at times, and beautiful as well. For me, those aspects coexist side by side. And that's why I share my story. I want other women to know that they can have a complex experience and complicated relationship with NFP, and it doesn't make them bad or broken Catholics. It makes them normal humans, and there is a way to process that and live NFP to the fullest, with joy and honesty about what it looks like in a fallen world.

It feels weird sometimes to share my story, but ultimately it is why I do all I do - why I speak the way I do, why I co-founded the nonprofit fabmbase.org, why I offer one-on-one coaching, and why I will unapologetically always try to make space for the messiness of what it means to live our beautiful faith in this way.