Praying with small children can be difficult. They tend to be wiggly and have short attention spans. When little ones are involved, it’s easy for family prayer time to seem more like…Wrestlemania. But you can have a meaningful prayer time with small children if you remember that little people need different spiritual food than bigger people. Faith develops in different stages from early childhood, to middle childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Children around 6 and under are in what’s called… Read more
May 8, 2019
Praying With Small Children
May 8, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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May 6, 2019
The Circle of…Stress?
May 6, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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Are you stressed? Having difficulty sleeping? Is your difficultly sleeping causing you stress? You’re not alone. A recent study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology discusses how stress can effect our ability to sleep or stay asleep and the negative ramifications this pattern can have on our health, particularly cardiovascular health. Although the greatest risk of increased blood pressure and other negative health effects come from a combination of stress and lack of sleep over the course of… Read more
April 23, 2019
Suicidal Fruit: What Happens When the Mental Health Profession Fails Post Abortive Women.
April 23, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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The #AmericanPsychologicalAssociation asserts that there is no causal link between abortion and depression (which is ridiculous anyway, because virtually no social science research can ever assert causation. But that’s a different TED Talk). And a recent talk in Ireland by Dr. Lucy Johnstone of the British Psychological Society actually recommended abortion as a treatment for the trauma of unwanted pregnancy. (Because the British have always had the best interests of the Irish people in mind….) Sadly, 21 yo Jade Rees… Read more
April 8, 2019
How To Pray Together as A Family
April 8, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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When you’re praying as a family, is it better to use the formal prayers of the church–like the rosary, traditional Grace-at-Meals, or a chaplet—or more conversational prayer? We say, “Why not both?” It isn’t that one type of prayer is better than another type. It’s that they serve different purposes in our spiritual lives. In our family, we like to think of formal prayers as the, “family prayers of the Church.” They connect us with the saints and angels and… Read more
April 1, 2019
To Cohabitate, or Not to Cohabitate. That is The Question
April 1, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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Celebrity couples live together, regular couples live together, if everyone’s cohabiting, that means there has to be some benefit to it, right? Not so fast… A new study published by the Institute for Family Studies found that cohabitation is rapidly becoming more popular than marriage, even “shotgun cohabitations” are statically more common than “shotgun marriages.” However, research released by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and The Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University has reveled that married… Read more
March 25, 2019
How to Cultivate Meaningful Family Prayer
March 25, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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Praying together as a family—at all—can seem intimidating. Life is busy, and because of this, most families are happy just to make prayer happen, much less make it meaningful. But there’s good news! You don’t have to be a saint or have perfect kids to have an awesome family prayer time. So how do we make our prayer time meaningful and teach our kids to have a personal relationship with God? First, make family prayer a regular part of your… Read more
March 18, 2019
You Can’t Judge Depression By Its Cover
March 18, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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“They seem/seemed so happy.” “They have everything together.” “I/They don’t have any reason to complain.” Chances are you’ve said at least one of these things about someone, or maybe you’ve even said them about yourself. Researchers are discovering a surge in this topic that many are calling “smiling depression,” or the more technical term, “atypical depression.” These terms describe individuals who seem to “have it all together,” who appear happy—but under their external facade or appearance are struggling with depression. … Read more
March 11, 2019
Dealing With Others’ Emotions
March 11, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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We all know that when someone yawns, then we start yawning too. New research shows that our emotions cause the same chain reaction. A study out of Yale University—lead by sociologist Nicholas Christakis—documented a variety of interactions of approximately 5,000 people living in one town over the course of 32 years. When discussing the results of this study, Christakis says, “We were able to show that as one person became happy or sad, it rippled through the network.” The study… Read more
March 5, 2019
How to Make The Most Out of Lent
March 5, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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Lent is upon us and many of us are still praying and thinking about what Lenten sacrifice or practice we should implement over the next forty days. Sometimes it can be difficult to know what we should do for Lent. Of course there are the popular ideas of giving up social media or giving up chocolate, and while these can absolutely be helpful to our personal growth and relationship with God, these and other popular Lenten ideas can often be… Read more
February 18, 2019
How To Get Your Feelings Heard And Your Needs Met
February 18, 2019 By Rachael Popcak and Dr. Gregory Popcak
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“Hi! How are you?”, “I’m fine…” End of conversation. This type of exchange is very common, but has become entirely ineffective when it comes to actually getting to know and understand how someone is feeling. The greeting, “How are you?” has essentially become a closed ended (yes or no) question and leaves it entirely up to the person asking the question to decide how positive or negative we are feeling. A new Yale study published in the Journal of Pediatric… Read more
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