Best Peter T. Malinoski Podcasts (2024)

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IIC 140: Your Personal Formation: Experiential Exercises and Q&A 1:18:44

3d ago1:18:44

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Join Dr. Peter and our audience members to experience a guided meditation on your parts’ needs for integrated formation. Guided by John Paul II’s four dimensions of personal formation (human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral) you have an opportunity to see what a part of you needs. Several audience members debrief from the exercise and we all …

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139 Personal Formation with Dr. Bob Schuchts 1:27:30

17d ago1:27:30

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Our guest, Dr. Bob Schuchts, shares with us his decades of experience as a healer through his discussion of his four identities of love, the four dimensions of formation, the integration of personal formation in the work of the John Paul II Healing Center, the centrality of love in healing, the necessity of felt safety and trust, and the importance…

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138 Personal Formation with Jake Khym: Restore the Glory and Life Restoration 1:22:36

1M ago1:22:36

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Catholic thought leader, human formation specialist, and podcaster Jake Khym has more than 20 years of experience in a wide variety of ministry settings and he joins me in this episode to discuss integrated personal formation. In this episode, we focus on these major themes: 1) your heart; 2) your identity as a beloved little son or daughter of God…

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137 Live Q&A with Fr. Boniface Hicks on Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation 1:17:54

2M ago1:17:54

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Fr. Boniface Hicks joins us once again as we continue our series on integrated personal formation, this time with a Q&A from our live audience. Fr. Boniface answers a wide range of questions about spiritual and pastoral formation, including: 1) What counsel can you give to those who have experienced poor spiritual formation, especially from formato…

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136 Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation with Fr. Boniface Hicks 1:26:38

2M ago1:26:38

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What makes good spiritual direction? What makes good spiritual directors? And what gets in the way in spiritual direction? To answers these questions, Fr. Boniface Hicks, joins us as continue our series on the integration of personal formation for Catholics. Fr. Boniface is a Benedictine monk and the Director of Spiritual Formation at St. Vincent S…

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135 The Tree of Catholic Personal Formation: An Integrative Model 1:09:00

3M ago1:09:00

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What do the roots, trunk, branches, leaves, and apples of a tree have to do with your Catholic formation? Find out how these, combined with sunlight, water, and soil, bring us an integrated understanding of personal formation grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person, drawing from Church documents and the sciences of the natural worl…

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134 Looking at Integrated Personal Formation Through a Mathematical Lens 1:27:48

3M ago1:27:48

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In this episode, we discuss how models help us more fully understand Catholic personal formation by showing distinctions and relationships among human formation, spiritual formation, intellectual formation, and pastoral formation. Next, we examine my new model that views formation through a mathematical lens. I explain each dimension of formation, …

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133 Models of Integrated Personal Formation -- Catholic Style, with Matthew Walz, Ph.D. 1:57:38

4M ago1:57:38

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In this episode, philosopher Matthew Walz, Ph.D. the Director of Intellectual Formation at Holy Trinity Seminary, explains the integration of the four pillars of formation laid out in Pope St. John Paul II's Pastores Dabo Vobis. We dive into why it is so important to integrate the four types of formation and whether there is a hierarchy or sequence…

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132 Live Q&A with Dr. Gerry on his Book, "Litanies of the Heart" 1:22:42

4M ago1:22:42

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My guest, Dr. Gerry, answers questions from our live audience about his new book, Litanies of the Heart: Relieving Post-Traumatic Stress and Calming Anxiety Through Healing Our Parts. We begin by receiving some wonderful feedback for Dr. Gerry about his book. Then we dive into some questions our audience has for Dr. Gerry: 1) Can 58 years of rearra…

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131 On God's Role in your Human Formation 1:48:00

5M ago1:48:00

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In this episode, I address a controversial clip from episode 79 of the Restore the Glory podcast, in which host Jake Khym provides an example of how he brings Jesus into his own parts work. I explain the potential issues I see with bringing God into human formation work. Then, I dive into the seven reasons why I initially focus on the natural realm…

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130 Grounding IFS in Catholicism-- Litanies of the Heart by Dr. Gerry Crete 1:24:11

5M ago1:24:11

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My guest, Dr. Gerry Crete shares with us the inside story of his brand-new book, Litanies of the Heart: Relieving Post-Traumatic Stress and Calming Anxiety through Healing Our Parts. This book grounds IFS and parts in a Catholic understanding of the human person, showing how parts work is both Biblical and harmonizable with our Catholic faith. Beca…

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129 Relating Well with "Borderline" Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete 1:28:59

6M ago1:28:59

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In this episode, my guest, licensed marriage and family therapist Dr. Gerry Crete and I discuss how best to engage with borderline dynamics within your family. People with “borderline personalities” have surprisingly intense internal experiences that are rarely handled well by the people around them. Dr. Gerry suggests avoiding both expressing too …

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128 Recovering from "Borderline Personality" with IFS 1:38:04

6M ago1:38:04

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In this episode we explore in detail how Internal Family Systems can help with borderline dynamics. We review the definitions of the innermost self and parts, the six attachment and six integrity needs, and we discuss the three major reasons why clients with BPD have been bruised and wounded by mental health professionals. I review the seven tenets…

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127 Understanding "borderline personalities" through Internal Family Systems 1:20:37

7M ago1:20:37

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(Please note that sound effects are used in this episode and may be triggering to parts.) In this episode, I take you inside the experience of Tina, a 32-year-old Catholic woman with “borderline personality” and introduce you to seven of her parts and how they switch inside her. These switches involve not only emotions, but all of Tina’s internal e…

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126 Borderline "personalities": Your questions answered by Dr. Greg Bottaro 1:22:39

7M ago1:22:39

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In this episode, my guest Dr. Greg Bottaro of the CatholicPsych Institute shares with us the most important thing he wants us to remember about borderline personality dynamics, the things that Catholics and non-Catholics most often misunderstand about borderline presentations, and his takeaways about borderline "personalities." We then open the flo…

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125 "Borderline personality" according to the conventional secular experts 1:23:55

8M ago1:23:55

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This episode focuses on the internal experience of borderline personality dynamics, what it feels like. Next, I share how “borderline” is a relatively new diagnosis, and previously indicated a range of personality development, rather than a specific disorder. I then discuss the standard diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 and the Psychodynamic Diagn…

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124 Your parts, IFS, and war: An experiential exercise 52:20

8M ago52:20

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In this special edition, I invite you to an experiential exercise to connect in a loving way with your parts who are in any distress or suffering with the armed conflict between Hamas and Israel and the humanitarian tragedies that conflict has brought. I do this experiential exercise along with you, working with my Adventurer part who has been burd…

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123 Relating well with narcissistic family members with Dr. Gerry Crete 1:29:52

8M ago1:29:52

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In this episode, I invited licensed marriage and family therapist Dr. Gerry Crete and a live audience to discuss the best ways to relate with family members with narcissistic traits while still preserving one's own limits and dignity. Dr. Gerry addressed the following: 1) Why is it important to prepare yourself for relating with someone with domina…

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122 Narcissism and Gaslighting: What Catholics Should Know 1:38:18

9M ago1:38:18

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In this episode, we review several definitions of gaslighting, discuss the tactics of gaslighting, explore the inner experience of both gaslighters and gaslightees, describe gaslighting in the workplace and with children, and list the four relationship dynamics of gaslighting. Then we describe how gaslighting and being gaslighted connects to deep, …

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121 Connecting with your own narcissistic parts: experiential exercise 1:26:45

9M ago1:26:45

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Today with our live audience, we start with 15 minutes of Q&A about narcissism addressing these questions: 1) Does acknowledging our own narcissism makes us more or less vulnerable to exploitation by another person? 2) Are children of parents with borderline personalities more likely to be attracted to narcissistic partners? 3)What is “healthy narc…

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120 Understanding Narcissism More Deeply with IFS 1:42:52

10M ago1:42:52

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In this groundbreaking episode, Dr. Peter explains how to conceptualize narcissistic "personalities" and narcissistic reactions through the lens of Internal Family Systems. Looking at narcissism through the lens of subsystems and parts is an entirely new paradigm that makes it easier to accept the reality the unmet attachment and integrity needs th…

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119 Narcissism: Q & A with Dr. Peter Martin 1:29:26

10M ago1:29:26

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In this episode, Catholic psychologist Peter Martin and I discuss narcissism with a live audience, covering the following questions: 1) What are two primary clinical approaches to treating individuals with narcissism; 2) How do we distinguish between boldness and narcissism; 3) How does one relate with a narcissistic spouse; 4) How do we work with …

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118 Narcissism: Who, What, Why, and How? The Secular Experts Share their Views 1:19:55

11M ago1:19:55

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In this episode, we examine different definitions of narcissism, we look at the markers and diagnostic criteria for narcissism, we examine the main beliefs, emotions, assumptions, and internal experiences that fuel narcissistic defenses (especially idealization and devaluation), we focus on relational patterns that narcissists have, and we look at …

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117 Discover the Parts Who Make Up Your "Personality" 1:18:22

11M ago1:18:22

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Dr. Gerry Crete, Marion Moreland and Dr. Peter Malinoski discuss the relationship among parts and how your manager parts make up what is perceived to be your personality. Dr. Peter offers a 25-minute experiential exercise to help you connect with your manager parts, the ones who make up your "personality." Then we debrief, describe our experiences …

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116 Why a Single Personality is not Enough 1:20:10

12M ago1:20:10

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In this episode, Dr. Peter discusses five reasons why the conventional understanding of a single, homogeneous personality is insufficient to more fully understand your internal experience and how alternative conceptualizations of the human psyche that recognize internal multiplicity, parts, and systems are not only more helpful, but also harmonize …

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115 Unburdening in Internal Family Systems -- A Catholic Discussion 1:17:31

1y ago1:17:31

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Join Catholic IFS therapists Marion Moreland, Jody Garneau, and Dr. Peter Malinoski for an in-depth discussion of unburdening, informed by Internal Family Systems and grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person. We explore three kinds of burdens -- personal burdens, legacy burdens, and unattached burdens (the IFS equivalent of demons),…

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114 Lifting Sexual Burdens: An IFS demonstration with Drew Boa 2:21:31

1y ago2:21:31

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Have you ever wondered what inner work with Internal Family Systems looks like with troubling sexual issues? Join us as podcaster and coach Drew Boa reviews an unburdening of three of his parts from a sexual issue with Dr. Peter and other Christian therapists.By Peter T. Malinoski, Ph.D.

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113 A Demonstration of IFS and Your Questions about Anger 1:12:35

1y ago1:12:35

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Join RCC Lead Navigator Marion Moreland and Dr. Peter for a demonstration of Internal Family Systems work around anger, followed by a Q&A where we discuss with our live audience member the topics of exiled anger, forgiveness, and legacy burdens.By Peter T. Malinoski, Ph.D.

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112 Assuaging Raging Hearts and Parts: Managing Anger with IFS 1:15:28

1y ago1:15:28

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In this episode, Dr. Peter takes close look at an alternative way to manage, work through, and let go of anger, informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), and especially by the work of Jay Earley. After a brief review of the major tenets of IFS, we discuss how to work through the different ways that manager parts, firefighter parts and exiled parts…

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111 Approaching my Anger from the Other Side: Experiential Exercise 1:10:19

1y ago1:10:19

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In this live experiential exercise, Dr. Peter leads listeners through an experiential exercise that explores why anger might feel important, necessary, even indispensable for parts. We look at how anger can develop from parts feeling forced to choose between attachment needs and integrity needs being met. Dr. Peter and the audience members shared a…

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110 Being with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane – Experiential Exercise 33:09

1y ago33:09

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(Please note that sound effects are used in this episode and may be triggering to parts.) In this experiential exercise I invite you and your parts to approach Jesus in the psychological, emotional, relational, and bodily anguish He suffered in His humanity in the Garden of Gethsemane. Which parts of you might avoid Jesus, turn away from Him in His…

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109 Jesus' Psychological Agony in the Garden 59:47

1y ago59:47

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We explore the inner experience of Jesus and the psychological, emotional, relational, and bodily anguish He suffered in His humanity in the Garden of Gethsemane as the drama of of salvation history unfolded. We also explored the reactions of the apostles Peter, James, and John to the experience of Jesus' agony.…

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108 Giving up the Idols We Hate -- Experiential Exercise 53:30

1+ y ago53:30

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In this experiential exercise, we invite parts of us to share their stories of why they hold anger toward God. Dr. Peter offers an invitation to parts to see if we can listen to those stories in an open, nonjudgmental way, understanding that there are always reasons for anger at God, reasons that stem from misunderstanding and misinterpretations of…

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107 How to Work Through your Anger at God 1:33:45

1+ y ago1:33:45

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Summary: Dr. Peter walks you through the four tracks or pathways Catholics commonly follow with their anger at God, tracks proposed by Michele Novotni and Randy Petersen in their 2001 book Angry with God, and elaborates on them extensively. These four tracks are 1) Trust in God Track; 2) the Cover-Up Track; 3) the Wrestle with God Track; and 4) the…

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106 God in the Hands of Angry Sinners -- Experiential Exercise 56:55

1+ y ago56:55

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In this episode, informed by Internal Family Systems and grounded firmly in a Catholic worldview, Dr. Peter guides you to connect with your spiritual manager parts who protect you against your own anger at God, getting to know those parts' concerns about why anger at God is dangerous or unacceptable. This is an important step in the journey to work…

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105 How You Hide from your Anger at God 1:35:59

1+ y ago1:35:59

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In this episode, we explore: 1) How anger at God is far more common and intense that you realize; 2) Why you need to work through your anger at God; 3) Your hidden reasons for your anger at God; 4) Why your anger at God is so frequently banished to your unconscious; 5) 16 defense mechanisms that drive your anger at God outside of your awareness; 6)…

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104 Connecting with your Angry Parts -- Experiential Exercise 1:00:49

1+ y ago1:00:49

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In Episode 104, in a experiential exercise, a guided reflection, Dr. Peter guides you in helping your parts who struggle with anger and also parts who work protect you against your anger. Come join us on an adventure inside, where we work to overcome the human formation obstacles to our interior integration. At the end, audience participants share …

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103 Your Anger, Your Body and You 1:30:44

1+ y ago1:30:44

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In this episode, Dr. Peter reviews the limitations of current Catholic resources on anger, and then reviews secular resources, including interpersonal neurobiology and the structural theory of dissociation. We examine the role of the body in anger responses, and discuss more wholistic ways of working constructive with parts that experience anger, r…

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102 Helping your Parts Get the Love they Need: Experiential Exercise 1:02:52

1+ y ago1:02:52

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In Episode 102, Dr. Peter guides a live audience to helping their parts get the love they need in an experiential exercise, especially the parts that may have been unnoticed or even neglected. Come join us on an adventure inside, where we work to overcome the human formation obstacles to embracing God's love for us. At the end, audience participant…

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101 A Story about Receiving Love 1:04:43

1+ y ago1:04:43

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Summary: In this episode, Dr. Peter brings together what we have been learning about receiving love in the story of Susanna Lead-in: There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this mo…

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100 Embracing God's Love for Me: Experiential Exercise 1:05:43

1+ y ago1:05:43

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In our 100th episode, we celebrate by going inside in an experiential exercise. Recorded before a live audience, Dr. Peter guides you through an experiential exercise to help you connect with parts of you that resist God's love. We create a space where you can much more deeply understand the negative, distorted God images that some of your parts ma…

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99 Why We Catholics Reject God's Love for Us and How to Embrace that Love 1:32:30

1+ y ago1:32:30

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IIC 99 Why We Catholics Reject God's Love for Us and How to Embrace that Love It is so common for Catholics (and others) to reject the love of God, to not let that love in. Join Dr. Peter for this episode where we explore in depth the eight natural, human formation reasons why we refuse God's love. We also look at what Hell really is and why it rea…

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98 Self-Love: What Catholics Need to Know 1:16:15

1+ y ago1:16:15

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Confusion and controversy abound in the Catholic Church about self-love. Learn four ways to understand self-love, why we avoid self-love, the six reasons it is important to cultivate proper self-love, what is appropriate self-sacrifice, and receive two practical spiritual means for growing in proper self-love: The Litany of Self-Love and also an en…

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97 Unlove of Self: How Trauma Predisposes You to Self-Hatred and Indifference 1:24:11

2y ago1:24:11

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In this episode, we review the many ways we fail to love ourselves, through self-hatred and through indifference toward ourselves. We discuss the ways that unlove for self manifests itself, contrasting a lack of love with ordered self-love through the lens of Bernard Brady's five characteristics of love. We discuss the impact of a lack of self-love…

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96 I Am a Rock: How Trauma Hardens us Against Being Loved 1:15:49

2y ago1:15:49

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Summary: Real love (agape) is given freely -- but it is not received freely in our fallen human condition. Join me in this episode as we discuss the costs of opening our hearts to love\and the price of being loved fully, of being loved completely, in all of our parts. We review why so many people refuse to be loved -- and we examine the psychologic…

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95 Trauma's Devastating Impact on our Capacity to Love 1:26:38

2y ago1:26:38

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Summary: In this episode, we focus on how unresolved trauma undermines and sabotages both our capacity and our inclination to love well. We explore how unresolved trauma impacts each of the five characteristics of love -- compromising our ability to love in an affective (emotional), affirming, responsive, unitive and steadfast way. We also dive int…

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94 The Primacy of Love 1:11:29

2y ago1:11:29

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Summary, In this episode, I discuss the central importance of love as the marker of well-being from a Catholic perspective -- our capacity to live out the two great commandments. We explore how love is the distinguishing characteristics of Christians, we detail the eight different kinds of love, and we discuss Catholic theologian Bernard Brady's fi…

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93 Three Inner Experiential Exercises 1:19:48

2y ago1:19:48

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Summary: In this episode I discuss the crucial role of the right kinds of corrective and healing experiences in our lives. I then offer you three inner experiential exercises to help you understand three questions: 1) In what ways do you not love yourself (with a special focus on inner critics); 2) your inner tension between connection and protecti…

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92 Understanding and Healing your Mind through IPNB 1:20:25

2y ago1:20:25

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Summary: In this episode, I invite you to explore and understand with me neuropsychiatrist Dr. Dan Siegel's Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) and what IPNB can show us about psychological health. We review the triangle of well-being, the nature of secure attachments, and the basis for mental health from an IPNB perspective. We examine the character…

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91 Special Episode: The Litanies of the Heart with Dr. Gerry Crete 39:13

2y ago39:13

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We discuss the brand new release of Souls and Hearts' Litanies of the Heart. These prayers were composed to be very attuned to the needs of closed hearts, fearful hearts, and wounded hearts, bringing in the best of psychological science around how we trust, how we connect and how we form bonds with others in our humanness -- all to help us better d…

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