By Katie Yoder, Our Sunday Visitor - When Emily Frase describes her experience with NFP, she points first to the cross... “We have to have the courage to be like, ‘You know what? Sometimes it is gruesome. Sometimes it really does look like a crucifixion — and that’s okay,'” the 33-year-old pres. of FAbM Base, a nonprofit dedicated to fertility awareness, told OSV... Frase and FAbM Base Exec. Dir. Mary Bruno, 37, shared their experiences with NFP during National NFP Awareness Week. The week takes place around the anniversary of Pope St. Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which warns against the dangers of contraception.