Mary Kay Cocharo

A New Way to Love: Living God’s Purpose for your Marriage

Couplehood is often a difficult road to travel. But one thing we know, it is a spiritual path that calls us into wholeness and completion as human beings. It is God calling us to our highest selves. We fall in love and get married and then all the unfinished business that we bring into the [...]

3 Secrets to a Long, Happy Marriage

“Couple Celebrates 80 Years of Marriage!” Just a sensational headline? Incredibly, no! The latest in a number of marriages highlighted in the news over the past year tell the remarkable story of Mitchell and Mattie Atkins of West Philadelphia. Married on January 14th, 1930, they were honored recently by family and friends at an anniversary [...]

Find the Right Focus in 2010

Have you ever heard it said, “Change your thinking, change your life”? This wise saying is based on the notion that we participate in the construction of our realities. In other words, what we focus on, is what we create. Many people use up most of their air- time and mental real-estate with negativity, “poor-me’s”, [...]

Surviving Family Drama during the Holidays

Emily stood in the rain intently staring at the travel poster outside the travel agency. Stunning sandy beaches, sun streaming onto golden beach goers, calm water just as blue as a sapphire. But the photo told only half the story; the headline told the rest: “Forget the Family Drama & Escape to Barbados for the [...]

Why we love Halloween

I hope all of you had a fun and interesting Halloween! I’ve always said that Halloween is my favorite holiday: I love dressing up in costume and seeing what everyone else dresses up as. What is it about this activity that we find so enticing? I realize that as children, the main draw was going [...]

Premarital Workshop on Saturday, April 10

“Marriage is not only the expression of love between two people, it is also a profound evocation of one of life’s greatest mysteries: the weaving together of many different strands of the soul.” –Thomas Moore If you are Catholic and engaged (or even moving in that direction), you can’t afford to miss Start Right, Stay [...]

Welcome to My New Website!

I am really happy to be launching this new website this week. Many of you had asked for an updated format where you could get new information, sign up for my emails and stay in touch. I think that you’ll find that this site will allow for all of that and more. Just to highlight [...]