CV NEWS FEED // The Diocese of Phoenix recently began its third annual class on Natural Family Planning (NFP) for single women, teaching women about tracking their cycles and understanding the “language” of their bodies.
For Catholic freelance journalist Kirsten Bublitz, the class empowered her to understand her femininity and fertility.
“Fertility is known as that fifth vital sign that is a rich language that speaks so much more than when a woman is fertile or not,” she wrote in a recent article for the Catholic Sun. “Fertility can also clue a woman into the rest of her body and get her attention if there’s something not quite right.”
“I already felt empowered to live out my femininity the way God intended and to see my body’s natural rhythms as being good and a gift from Him,” she continued.
The class is taught by NFP instructor Haley Yeager, who works in the diocesan Office of Natural Family Planning. Along with NFP Office Coordinator Armida Escarcega and others in the office, Yeager felt that single women needed to have an opportunity to learn about NFP. Until now, it’s been a topic mainly reserved for engaged couples.
Bublitz wrote that she’s now thinking of her body as speaking a language that she needs to learn. After growing up with an irregular cycle and seeing her body as something “wrong,” she’s now learning to understand the signs that her body is giving her.
“How often have I missed the language the Lord gave to my body?” she wrote. “How often have I believed the lie that my body was the problem when I actually didn’t know the language my body was trying to speak to me?
“As I awkwardly get used to tracking my cycle until the next class, I’ll be approaching this world with my eyes a little more open to the beautiful body God gave me that has been telling a language since my first breath, a language I am just beginning to pay attention to,” she concluded.
