Personal Development

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. - Alvin Toffler

If we want to be present and available for our families, co-workers, employees, and friends, self-care is the first step toward fulfilling that initiative. 

The National Day of Prayer invites Americans to pray for our nation — including our workplaces. Businesses need leaders with integrity, humility, and empathy who can shape the workplace and reach beyond to our nation.

What would it look like if the most influential Catholic business leaders in your community gathered each month to pray together, hear world-class speakers, and hold each other accountable to a life of faith? That is the vision behind Legatus — and for more than 5,500 members across three countries, it is already a reality.

Work is more than a means of earning a living, it is a way to express love. It is a participation in God's creative work and a path to holiness. The Prayer to St. Joseph the Worker offers a powerful framework for approaching work with the right Christian attitude.

For many women,  there is one question that looms quietly and sometimes anxiously over the early days of motherhood: What happens after maternity leave?

Catholic author Ginny Kochis shares expert insights on raising neurodivergent children with faith, practical strategies, and tips for the workplace.

A pilgrimage is as much about the journey as it is the destination. The heart of a pilgrimage is an encounter with the Lord, our God. Whereas vacations are about relaxation, sightseeing, and tourism, pilgrimages take us from our comfort zones and self-reliance to surrender and trust in God’s providence for the journey and in our lives.

Discover the power of God's Divine Mercy this Easter season. Learn how humility, the Feast of Divine Mercy, and St. Faustina's diary can transform your faith.

Relationship and connection are at the heart of the Christian life. We were not created to be alone but were created for relationship. Yet as our world becomes more virtual, it becomes harder and harder to connect deeply with one another. How do we form connections when everyone around us is staring at their phone?

Emotions both remit and require energy. Positive, growth-promoting emotions such as excitement, hope, and humility optimize happiness, performance and well-being. Negative, survival-based emotions include anger, frustration, and fear.

Fertility tracking apps have become incredibly popular, but most have secular goals, and many create a risk of exposing your information. Enter PeakDay, created by the Fertility Science Institute of the Couple to Couple League. The Catholic fertility and period-tracking app is designed as a safe, values-driven alternative to apps that often promote birth control, abortion, and other controversial agendas.

This Lent, we walked with Jesus to Calvary. Now, at the foot of the Cross on Good Friday, we ask: "How well did you bear your crosses and trials this Lent?"

Good Friday highlights a tragic event in which Jesus suffered a cruel and unjust death as He sacrificed Himself for the sins of humanity. And yet, because we know the purpose behind this great sacrifice and the joy to come just three days later, we can truly see it as a “good” day.

Holy Week is the holiest week of the year, in which we enter into the greatest mysteries of our faith: Jesus' Institution of the Eucharist, His Passion, Death, and Resurrection. This reflection invites us to be present with Jesus at each of these events — Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday — simply to be with Him and to immerse ourselves ever more deeply in these sacred mysteries.

For Catholic women in business, vocation rarely unfolds in straight lines. We are often discerning multiple callings at once: building enterprises, stewarding influence, teaching, researching, mentoring, serving. In this layered life, discernment can feel paralyzing: What if I move too soon? What if I wait too long? What if I say yes and fail?

St. Patrick’s Day is a special feast day celebrated every year by the faithful on March 17th. While this day usually brings to mind shamrocks and leprechauns, all things green, and delicious food and drink, it is also an important day to honor St. Patrick and all his wonderful deeds that brought glory to God.

You are the company you keep. Your character, behavior, and beliefs are greatly influenced by the people you associate with, especially those who are in close proximity. As Catholics, we must keep the saints close to our hearts and look to them for guidance, intercession, and inspiration.

God has given you particular gifts. And for all the “bossy babes” out there, this is delightful news: being direct and even confrontational in a world that shirks away from hard truths is a gift. We need people who can stand firm in the truth, and who aren’t afraid to lead with love.

If I could recommend a book to any young female professional, it would be “Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t Be Fused with Christianity” by Carrie Gress, Ph.D. The insights she shares about the dangers of feminism are ones that I have spent the last several years untangling as a mid-career professional and full-time, stay-at-home mom. This book would have saved younger me some heartache in terms of how I viewed the working world and myself.

Two young mothers, celebrated today on March 7, are included in the Roman Canon (Eucharistic Prayer 1) among a list of early Church martyrs. Most people don’t know their story, but we can all learn from their faith and fortitude.

Every once in a while, you come across a book and think: Every woman I know should read this. Teenagers, mothers, religious sisters, women who are committed single and those beyond menopause. When you find this book, you pray that tools like social media and the natural interconnected way women communicate will disperse the message worldwide. The Language of Your Body is that book.

Energy management is not only about the day-to-day choices we make, but also how those choices are aligned to our purpose and what gives us meaning. It may sound counterintuitive, but when we align our energy with our purpose, it expands our energy capacity.

My journal entries allow me to understand my perception of the happenings of my world in a particular time and place – what a wonderful opportunity particularly as we journey through the Lenten season and prepare our hearts for the Good News of Easter. I have also been provided with validation for keeping up my journaling over the years and I have no intention of stopping as long as I am able. 

The pressure is real: Say something. Signal something. Align publicly — however that may be — or else. Many business owners are asking: What is the Catholic response to these times?

We either love or despise Valentine’s Day. The modern culture seduces us into believing we need lavish romance, decadent chocolates, expensive bouquets, and most importantly tall-dark-and-handsome Prince Charmings to woo us into bliss! We are set up to be disappointed with unrealistic expectations of ourselves and our partners, and of course we know that forced love is never true anyway. We can and should celebrate love and even romance, but what does that look like?

Jealousy is perceived threat to something valued, the fear of losing something precious, someone we love — or at least their favor and approval. And whose, in this instance? God’s.

Every year World Marriage Day is celebrated by the Church worldwide as a day set aside to honor marriage as the foundation of family life. It is a beautiful opportunity for the Church to celebrate the example marriage demonstrates of honor, beauty, dignity, and living out one’s vocation.

Learn how a conversation between friends and sisters-in-law sparked a new business idea: a sleek, professional, Catholic daily planner.

Before reading Feast, Faith and Flourish by the Ember Collective, I had no idea just how deeply my Catholic faith is woven into every season of life.