Total W(h)ine

Jesus made it. My kids do it. I drink it.
In vino veritas!

Meet the W(h)iner

Hey y’all! I’m Emily Frase, a Cajun cradle Catholic living life in northern Virginia with my Wisconsin-born hubs and our two toddlers. When it comes to living the faith, I take my cues from Jesus and just tell it like it is. Click below if you’d like to know more. Then pour a glass and dive on in!

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Read the latest on the blog

Surrender All

A story of how faith was interwoven with reason, and the difficult and loving response that a husband and wife made together in response to their unique situation as it changed over the course of their marriage.

The Cross is Love

The birth of my second child gave me an intimate taste of the cross of Christ, at once indescribably painful, and eventually, beautiful.

Book Review: Letters to Women

If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that no matter what we’re going through, no matter what we’re trying to discern, it’s absolutely necessary to our sanity to know that we aren’t alone. It’s a lesson I’ve learned time and time again as I speak about NFP. We need to know that someone else out there…

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

Learn more about the new nonprofit where real life and fertility awareness intersect

FAbM Base

Click here to learn more about FAbM Base

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.

Need some help navigating the NFP life?

Emily offers one-on-one one-hour and 30 minute coaching sessions, as well as girls night chats for larger groups, to help you work through some of the tougher bits of NFP and fertility awareness life.

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

Marriage, Motherhood & Culture

Click here for more straight talk on how faith and life intersect

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