Meet the W(h)iner

Emily Frase is a wife and SAHM who needed an outlet after she left the workforce. The outlet became Total W(h)ine. Founded in 2018, the blog has grown far beyond her original intention – much to Emily’s delight!

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Emily is now offering a free monthly newsletter called Monthly W(h)inings, with plans to add some exciting paid subscription options (think Instagram Q&As).

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Fertility Awareness and NFP Coaching

Emily has offered intimate one-on-one one-hour and 30 minute coaching sessions to help you work through some of the tougher bits of NFP and fertility awareness life. She is currently on hiatus, but will return in 2023 with updated offerings for different price points.

Coming Back in 2023

All sessions are virtual.

Read the latest on the blog

Don’t pray for healing.

AKA: what happens when you don’t write for months, and then get to a place where you’re ready to say everything all at once. This one is about my current pregnancy.

The Unbearable Weight of Loneliness

A reflection on an aspect of Christ’s Passion that I didn’t see until recently.

I Didn’t Give Birth.

I’ve shared my birth stories before. And I can finally admit I didn’t share the truth.

The nonprofit where real life and fertility awareness intersect

FAbM Base

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Emily is the co-founder and president of the nonprofit organization FAbM (pronounced “fam”) Base. Inspired by her own experiences and passion for honest education, Emily says that the primary goal of the organization is to make fertility awareness more accessible to any woman regardless of her faith or stage of fertility.

“[Fertility awareness] is knowledge of her body that every woman ought to have.”
Dr. Evelyn Billings

Real Talk on NFP

Whether you’re trying to find a method of fertility awareness, need some practical help and
solidarity, or if you think the Catholic Church is just straight up nuts for this teaching…
this page is for you!

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Emily titled her blog Total Whine for a reason.
The real talk is not limited to NFP.

Marriage, Motherhood & Culture

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The level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood.
Love always goes out to meet the demands of the object loved. If the one loved is virtuous, we must be virtuous to achieve it. Hence, the higher the love, the loftier must be those who pursue; the nobler the woman, the nobler the world.
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Characters of the Passion