This Whole Life

An Ode to Grandmas: Storytellers #10

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Grandmothers can have a beautiful impact on us, even when our families are far from perfect.Kenna brings stories of her two grandmothers in this heart...

Ep96 He Leadeth Me, Part 3

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“Even in moments of human discouragement, the consciousness that I was fulfilling God's will in all that happened to me would serve to dispel a...

Ep95 He Leadeth Me, Part 2

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“We were subjected to conditions that were deplorable, even subhuman, and yet I was delighted simply to be with people once again.” ~ Fr. Walter C...

Ep94 He Leadeth Me, Part 1

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“Learning the full truth of our dependence upon God and our relation to his will is what the virtue of humility is all about."~ Fr. Walter Cisz...

The most dangerous career fair in history: Storytellers #9

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

But don't worry, she can still see.Addy Diaz returns to This Whole Life to share a hilarious story of gaming, shame, and vulnerability. Listen ...

Ep93 Navigating Division and Seeking Peace in Difficult Times

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world."~ John 16:33What do I do when I feel like giving up?Is God p...

Jesus, Take The Wheel: Storytellers #8

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You're on a road trip with Jesus. Where is he sitting?Where are you sitting?Get your copy of He Leadeth Me for our Lenten book studyLet us know...

Thank God for My Anxiety? w/ Catherine DiNuzzo

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you."~ 1 Peter 5:7What is anxiety, really?How do I process my anxiety when it's no...

Screening Prospective Priests & Religious: Storytellers #7

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What's it like to have the responsibility of discerning whether a man or woman would be a healthy and suitable priests or religious?Dr. Anthony I...

Ep91 Hope Amid Depression w/ Dr. Anthony Isacco

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, saves those whose spirit is crushed."~ Psalm 34:19Is it a sin to be depression?Is depression really...

A Wondrous Walk in Wyoming: Storytellers #6

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What does a Wyoming girl do every time she visits the family farm?Beth Hlabse joins us for this edition of Storytellers and a glimpse of the grandeur,...

Ep90 Loving Persons With Mental Illness

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight."~ Luke 10:33How can I better support my loved one who su...

When the Hernons *knew* they were meant for each other: Storytellers #5

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When do you know that you're meant to marry someone? How much do you ever really know?? Mike & Alicia Hernon of the Messy Family Project sh...

Ep89 Family from 30,000 Feet w/ Mike & Alicia Hernon

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Where there is no vision, the people perish."~ Proverbs 29:18Why do my spouse and I fight over such trivial things?How can we be more connecte...

Spinach & A Spanking: Storytellers #4

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every parent has bad days, but some of those bad days become great stories over time.Especially when there's a literal fork in the road.Send us a...

Ep88 The Window of Tolerance

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you find that you have wandered away from the shelter of God, lead your heart back to Him quietly and simply."~ St. Francis de SalesWhat...

The Christmas Workout That Didn't Work Out: Storytellers #3

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

People have different ways of approaching the holidays and holy days.Even people who are sacramentally vowed to one another.And sometimes that's ...

Ep87 Sane Celebrations & Holidays

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God."~ 1 Corinthians 10:31Is it really possible to stay san...

From Occult Practices to Catholic Priesthood: Storytellers #2

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What a difference a year can make.You'll be wowed by Fr. Nathan LaLiberte's story of conversion and vocational discernment, going from occul...

Ep86 Gratitude Changes You

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.~ 1 Thessalonians 5:18Why is it so easy to feel entitled?How am ...

Why This University President Stopped Using Email: Storytellers #1

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Monsignor James Shea stopped using email in 2013."What?!In this inaugural Storytellers episode of This Whole Life, hear about this Universi...

Ep85 Creating Integrated Catholic Culture w/ Msgr. James Shea

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Christian faith does not destroy culture, but purifies and uplifts it. It takes away nothing of genuine value from a society or nation, but ...

Ep84 Holy Sex, part 3: Expectations, Desires & NFP w/ Renzo & Monica Ortega

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Each family finds within itself a summons that cannot be ignored, and that specifies both its dignity and its responsibility: family, become wha...

Ep83 Holy Sex, part 2: Arousal & Openness

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Love should be seen as something which in a sense never ‘is’ but is always only ‘becoming’, and what it becomes depends up on the contri...

Ep82 Holy Sex part 1: The Great News About Sex

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I belong to my lover, and my lover belongs to me; he feeds among the lilies."~ Song of Solomon 6:3Why isn't my sex life going the way ...

Ep81 Take Back Control Of Your Life

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery."~ Galatians 5:1What if I didn't sign up ...

Ep80 The 4 C's of Healthy Conflict

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A mild answer turns back wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."~ Proverbs 15:1Is it possible to fight fair?How can someone who hates conf...

Ep79 How Fathers Can Find Peace w/ Devin Schadt

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, ‘Abba, Father!’...

Ep78 Dating Well Before - And After - the Wedding w/ Dr. Mario Sacasa

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Love should be seen as something which in a sense never ‘is’ but is always only ‘becoming’, and what it becomes depends upon the contrib...

Ep77 Living Pro-Life Every Day

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”~ John 13:35Am I really "pro-life"?How does lovi...

Ep76 Top Ten Parenting Hacks

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves."~ Matthew 10:16Is there any way t...

Ep75 Youth Sports: Inspiring or Insane? w/ Matt Birk

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win." ~ 1 Corinthians 9:24Ar...

Ep74 Stuck in the Middle: Triangulation (Relationship Roundtable)

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone."~ Matthew 18:15Why do I get caught in the middle of arg...

Ep73 Don't Be An Antithesis

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jesus said to him, “What if I want him to remain until I come? What concern is it of yours? You follow me.”~ John 21:22Why do I get so angry at ot...

Ep72 Benefit of the Doubt: Positive Sentiment Override

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."~ 1 Corinthians 13:7Why do I get so hurt by others' ...

Ep71 Suffering with Sanity & Sanctity

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"...we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, an...

Ep70 Men's Relational Health: Relationship Roundtable

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Man becomes an image of God not so much in the moment of solitude as in the moment of communion.”~ St. John Paul IIHow do men connect with others...

Ep69 Active Listening w/ Addy Diaz

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, to welcome, to accept."~ Henri NouwenWh...

Ep68 A Future With Hope w/ Bishop James Conley

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"What we can be always sure of - no matter what is happening in our lives - is that we are not alone. You are not alone! God knows your suffering...

Ep67 Gender Identity & Gender Dysphoria w/ Dr. Julia Sadusky

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated."~ Bishop Robert BarronWhere did we get to ...

Ep66 The Five Love Langauges

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins."~ 1 Peter 4:8What is a love language? What is...

Ep65 Grief & Glory Through Infertility

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If in spite of everything God does not give them children, they should not regard themselves as being thwarted. They should be happy, discoverin...

Ep64 Parenting Under Control, Not Controlling w/ Rachel Balducci

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for ...

Ep63 Facing the Big Questions w/ Alex Wallace, LPCC

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”~ Blaise PascalDo the big, existential questions of life...

Ep62 Training Kids (and Ourselves) for Technology

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Christian community is called to help them [parents] in teaching children how to live in a media environment in way consonant with the digni...

Ep61 Holy Living in Secular Settings w/ Isaac Wicker

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.”~ John 17:18How do I share the gospel when others aren't open to it?Can I b...

Ep60 How To Create A Habit

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly se...

Ep59 The Temperament God Gave You w/ Art & Laraine Bennett

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain."~ 1 Corinthians 15:10Why do I react the way that I do...

Ep58 What's Your Story? w/ Fr. Angelus Montgomery, CFR

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Return home and recount what God has done for you.”~ Luke 8:39Where has the Lord been most clearly present in the story of your life?Is my story ...

Ep57 Faith & Flourishing in the LGBT+ Experience w/ Shannon Ochoa

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Messiah?”~ John 4:29Is there a place in the Church for people with an...

Ep56 Therapy, Spiritual Direction or Confession? w/ Fr. Nathan LaLiberte

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"But woe to the solitary person! If that one should fall, there is no other to help."~ Ecclesiastes 4:10How do I know if I need therapy or s...

Ep55 Addiction & Recovery w/ Scott Weeman

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed."~ John 8:36Is there hope for people who are stuck in addiction?Is healing really pos...

Ep54 Thriving Through Transition

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens."~ Ecclesiastes 3:1Change is hard. Yet, it's ...

Ep53 How Women Heal from Sexual Sin w/ Rachael Killackey

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"There is a God close to us who calls us by name and says: 'Rise, cease your tears, because I have come to free you!'"~ Pope Franc...

Ep52 Surviving Family Trips

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"In your journey as a family, you share so many beautiful moments: meals, rest, housework, leisure, prayer, trips and pilgrimages, and times of m...

Ep51 Holy Friendship w/ Fr. Luke Marquard

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everythi...

Ep50 Senses & Regulation: Occupational Therapy w/ Caitlin Russ

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give ...

Ep49 Getting Sunday Right w/ Dr. Michael Naughton

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Through Sunday rest, daily concerns and tasks can find their proper perspective: the material things about which we worry give way to spiritual ...

Ep48 Sanity & Sanctity with St. Thérèse: Book Study Part 2

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“It is the love of God dwelling in our actions that makes us whole. It is love that keeps us sane.”~ Fr. Marc FoleyIt's the grand finale of o...

Ep47 Sanity & Sanctity with St. Thérèse: Book Study Part 1

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Her ‘little way’ was her means of holiness, and it was also what kept her sane.”~ Fr. Marc FoleyIt's book study time! At long last, Kenn...

Ep46 The Love That Keeps Us Sane w/ Fr. Marc Foley

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be."~ St. Thérèse of LisieuxThis Whole Life return...

Ep45 Postpartum Mood Disorders w/ Dr. Lyndsey Day

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”~ St. Thérèse of LisieuxThe arrival of a child is an unspeakable gift a...

Ep44 Dealing with Difficult People

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."~ John 13:35It's time to be honest: we all have...

Ep43 From Conflict to Connection: Process Over Content

17 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Pure love is capable of great deeds, and it is not broken by difficulty or adversity."~ St. FaustinaDo you have the same arguments over and...

Ep42 Your Body is a Gift: Body Image & Eating Disorders w/ Megan Lawrence, LAMFT

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?"~ 1 Corint...

Ep41 Shame vs. Guilt

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"...and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.&qu...

Ep40 Crushing Criticism

04 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take...

Ep39 OCD & Scrupulosity w/ Dr. Katherine Posch

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."~ 2 Corinthians 3:17How often do we hear that someone is...

Ep38 Family Meetings: A Game Changer

07 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."~ Coloss...

Ep37 Forgiveness: Living In Freedom

24 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must fo...

Ep36 Radical Acceptance

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective."~ 1 Corinthians 15:10As humans living in a fallen wor...

Ep35 Unified: Overcoming Pornography Together

26 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"It is necessary that the heroic becomes daily and that the daily becomes heroic."~ Saint Zélie MartinIn this fallen world, there are parti...

Ep34 Perspectives on Pornography: His & Hers

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Create in me a clean heart, O God..."~ Psalm 51:12How can something that affects all of us be something that we almost never talk about hon...

Ep33 I'm Not In Control: Superstition

29 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they ...

Ep32 In The World, not of the World: the Sacred & the Secular

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one. ... As you sent me into the world, so I sent them int...

Ep31 Let Them Struggle: Enabling & Overfunctioning

01 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spi...

Ep30 Conquering Contempt

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, compassionate, ...

Ep29 The Parts of Me in Harmony: Internal Family Systems with Louisa Hall

03 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ."~ 1 Corinthians 12:12Y...

Ep28 Choosing Greatness Over Comfort with Isaac Schmidt

20 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."~ Pope Benedict XVIWe live in a world that of...

Ep27 10 Tips for Parenting Toddlers (and other kids of any age)

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Soon we’ll have the intimate happiness of the family, and it’s this beauty that brings us closer to God.”~ St. Louis MartinThe Terrible Twos....

Ep26 What Do I Do With My Anger? w/ Fr. Nathan LaLiberte

23 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger, and do not leave room for the devil."~ Ephesians 4:26-27ANGER. It's a w...

Ep25 Moving in the Right Direction, Together w/ Andy Norton

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Man cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself.”~ St. John Paul IIIt sounds so simple: do good things that make me health...

Ep24 Men & Mental Health: Do I Have What It Takes?

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great." ~ G.K. ChestertonTh...

Ep23 Staying Grounded in the Chaos

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing."~ John...

Ep22 Is Self-Care "Christian"?

28 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.~ 1 Kings 19:8The idea ...

Ep21 Do I Need Therapy? with Vonda Tiede, LMFT

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellen...

Ep20 The Resilience & Healing of our Brains with Sofia Carozza

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this momenta...

Ep19 Sanity in the Sacred Triduum & Easter

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him we shall also live with him;if we persevere we shall also reign with him.~ 2 Timothy 2:11-12Happy...

Ep18 Tearing Down Walls & Building A Connected Marriage

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"...but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ..."~ Ephesians 4:15We return to Dr. J...

Ep17 Living With A Broken Heart: Others' Free Will

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"For He bore witness to the truth, but He refused to impose the truth by force on those who spoke against it."~ Dignitatis Humanae, St. Pope...

Ep16 Free Will & the Self

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"For God has willed that man remain 'under the control of his own decisions,' so that he can seek his Creator spontaneously, and come f...

Ep15 Adoption, Fostering, & Connections That Heal (with Ryan O'Hara)

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, 'Abba, Fat...

Ep14 Defeating Defensiveness

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Those who conceal their sins do not prosper, but those who confess and forsake them obtain mercy.~ Proverbs 28:13Humans seek connection, and sometimes...

Ep13 Grief: My Forever Frenemy

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted."~ Matthew 5:4Everyone has had experiences and feelings of grief and loss. Whether i...

Ep12 Fully Alive with Paul J. Kim

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Life in man is the glory of God; the life of man is the vision of God. If the revelation of God through creation gives life to all who live upon...

Bonus Episode: Merry Christmas!

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The perfect Teacher of children became himself a child among children, that he might give wisdom to the foolish. The Bread of heaven came down ...

Ep11 Embracing Your Emotions

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the Christian life, the Holy Spirit himself accomplishes his work by mobilizing the whole being, with all its sorrows, fears and sadness, as is vis...

Ep10 Coaching Children Who Argue

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests,...

Ep9 The Ache We All Know (w/ Ashley Cermak)

27 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.&...

Ep8 Mental Health in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Everyone fails at who they are supposed to be, Thor. The measure of a person, of a hero, is how well they succeed at being who they are.” (Frigga...