Content by Subject Matter

Ability to Love

“IIC 95: Trauma's Devastating Impact on Our Capacity to Love” - Weekly Reflection - July 4, 2022

Abortion

“Healing in the Wake of Roe V. Wade w/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 27, 2022

Abuse

“Why We Do Wicked Things - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 67” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2021

“God Heals Our Deepest Wounds - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 17” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2020

“What to Say to an Abuse Victim” - Weekly Reflection - January 16, 2020

Acceptance

“From Rejecting to Embracing Aging” - Weekly Reflection - December 21, 2022

Accepting God's Love

“How My History with Authority Figures Affects My Relationship with God - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 12” - Be With The Word - February 11, 2020

Accepting the Body

“IIC 12: Bodyset: Accepting our Bodies – with Dr. Andrew Sodergren” - Weekly Reflection - April 27, 2020

Addiction

“Radical Way to Approach Recovery - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 61” - Be With The Word - January 13, 2021

“Learning to Wait: The First Step to Overcoming Addiction - 1st Sunday of Advent - Episode 54” - Be With The Word - November 24, 2020

“The Porn Pandemic” - Weekly Reflection - October 1, 2020

“What Does Trauma Have to Do With Addiction?” - Guest Appearance - September 2, 2020

“Addiction is the Opposite of Connection and Intimacy - Corpus Christi - Episode 30” - Be With The Word - June 8, 2020

“Four Signs of an Addiction and Three Steps to Break Free” - Weekly Reflection - June 3, 2020

“Anxiety, Trauma and Addiction” - Guest Appearance - April 27, 2020

“The Role of Free Will in Addictive Behavior” - Weekly Reflection - March 12, 2020

“Unpacking Addiction” - Guest Appearance - March 10, 2020

“Brain Development and Addictive Cycles” - Guest Appearance - March 5, 2020

Addressing Fear

“Overcoming Fear and Getting Unstuck - 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 52” - Be With The Word - November 10, 2020

Advent

“Transform Advent Without Becoming a Curmudgeon! - 2nd Sunday of Advent - Episode 55” - Be With The Word - December 1, 2020

Aging

“From Rejecting to Embracing Aging” - Weekly Reflection - December 21, 2022

Agony in the Garden

“IIC 110: Being with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane – Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2023

“IIC 109: Jesus' Psychological Agony in the Garden” - Weekly Reflection - April 3, 2023

Alienation

“Loneliness vs. Alienation” - Guest Appearance - April 14, 2021

Anger

“IIC 113: A Demonstration of IFS and Your Questions About Anger” - Weekly Reflection - May 15, 2023

“IIC 112: Assuaging Raging Hearts and Parts: Managing Anger with IFS Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2023

“IIC 111: Approaching my Anger from the Other Side: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - April 17, 2023

“IIC 108: Giving up the Idols We Hate -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2023

“IIC 107: How to Work Through Your Anger at God” - Weekly Reflection - March 6, 2023

“IIC 106: God in the Hands of Angry Sinners -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - February 20, 2023

“Better Homes and Pardons: Finding Freedom Through Forgiveness” - Weekly Reflection - February 8, 2023

“IIC 105: How You Hide From Your Anger at God” - Weekly Reflection - February 6, 2023

“IIC 104: Connecting with your Angry Parts -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - January 16, 2023

“IIC 103: Your Anger, Your Body and You” - Weekly Reflection - January 2, 2023

“Anger, Wrath, and Vengeance, Oh My! - 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 43” - Be With The Word - September 8, 2020

“IIC 3: Grief Over the Loss of the Eucharist” - Weekly Reflection - March 27, 2020

Anger at God

“IIC 108: Giving up the Idols We Hate -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2023

“IIC 107: How to Work Through Your Anger at God” - Weekly Reflection - March 6, 2023

“IIC 106: God in the Hands of Angry Sinners -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - February 20, 2023

“IIC 105: How You Hide From Your Anger at God” - Weekly Reflection - February 6, 2023

Anxiety

“Truth, Culture, Life With Royce Hood” - Guest Appearance - December 11, 2023

“IIC 124: Your Parts, IFS, And War: An Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“Ask a Catholic Therapist ANYTHING! W/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 17, 2021

“Psychosomatic Illness” - - February 10, 2021

“Philippians 4 as a Remedy for Anxiety” - Weekly Reflection - November 24, 2020

“The Lies We Tell Ourselves in Life Stories - All Saints Day - Episode 50” - Be With The Word - October 27, 2020

“How to Find Peace That Surpasses All Understanding - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 46” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2020

“Coping With Anxiety” - Weekly Reflection - September 17, 2020

“Anxiety, Trauma and Addiction” - Guest Appearance - April 27, 2020

Attachment

“IIC 115: Unburdening in Internal Family Systems -- A Catholic Discussion” - Weekly Reflection - June 19, 2023

“How Parents Use Their Children To Avoid Feeling Shame” - Weekly Reflection - July 20, 2022

“The Sins of the Fathers: Unexpressed Love” - Weekly Reflection - July 6, 2022

“The Conflicting Loves Inside You” - Weekly Reflection - June 29, 2022

“Dangerous Love” - Weekly Reflection - June 22, 2022

“IIC 62: Unmet Attachment Needs and Unmet Integrity Needs” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2021

“Learning From Suffering - 5th Sunday of Lent - Episode 68” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2021

“Believing You Can Change - 1st Sunday of Advent - Episode 1” - Be With The Word - November 26, 2019

Attachment Needs

“IIC 125: Borderline Personality According to the Conventional Secular Experts” - Weekly Reflection - November 6, 2023

“How to Help Your Parts Get Their Needs Met by Working with Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2023

“Your Daydreams Reveal Your Secret, Unmet Needs” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2023

“IIC 62: Unmet Attachment Needs and Unmet Integrity Needs” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2021

Attachment Theory

“IIC 115: Unburdening in Internal Family Systems -- A Catholic Discussion” - Weekly Reflection - June 19, 2023

“Why Dr Gerry Crete Fused Faith and Attachment Theory Psychology into a 'Litany of the Heart'” - Guest Appearance - May 11, 2022

“IIC 30: How Small and Childlike are We Supposed to Be?” - Weekly Reflection - August 24, 2020

“Finding Safety in a Turbulent World - 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 37” - Be With The Word - July 28, 2020

Attachment Wounds

“Healing Our Sexual Brokenness - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 84” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2021

Attachments

“Breaking Free of Power Struggles to Find Joy - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 83” - Be With The Word - September 21, 2021

Authority

“How My History with Authority Figures Affects My Relationship with God - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 12” - Be With The Word - February 11, 2020

Avoiding God

“Why Do I Avoid God?” - Guest Appearance - March 1, 2021

Avoiding Love

“IIC 36: Why We Flee From Real Love” - Weekly Reflection - October 5, 2020

Being Found

“Being Lost and How To Be Found - 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 40” - Be With The Word - August 18, 2020

Being Gaslighted

“IIC 122: Narcissism and Gaslighting--What Catholics Should Know” - Weekly Reflection - October 2, 2023

Being Loved

“IIC 96: I Am a Rock: How Trauma Hardens Us Against Being Loved” - Weekly Reflection - August 1, 2022

“Tolerating Being Loved” - Guest Appearance - April 28, 2021

Belief

“The Psychology of Doubt - Ascension - Episode 27” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2020

Blaming God

“Learning How to Hope Again - 3rd Sunday of Lent - Episode 16” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2020

Body

“Trauma and the Body” - Weekly Reflection - February 9, 2022

“Helping Daughters Develop a Healthy Body Image” - Weekly Reflection - April 30, 2020

“IIC 11: JR’s Story: What Happens When You Listen to Your Body” - Weekly Reflection - April 24, 2020

Body and Soul

“Unity of Body and Soul - New Creation! - 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 76” - Be With The Word - June 17, 2021

Body-Soul Disconnect

“Unity of Body and Soul - New Creation! - 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 76” - Be With The Word - June 17, 2021

Bodyset

“IIC 11: JR’s Story: What Happens When You Listen to Your Body” - Weekly Reflection - April 24, 2020

“IIC 10: Your Catholic Body and Crisis: Bodyset” - Weekly Reflection - April 20, 2020

“IIC 4: The Four Pillars of Psychological Resilience for Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2020

Book Review

“Applied Review #3 Boundaries For Your Soul: Intense Emotions and Parts” - Weekly Reflection - February 21, 2024

“Applied Review #2: Boundaries for Your Soul” - Weekly Reflection - February 14, 2024

“Applied Review #1: Boundaries For Your Soul” - Weekly Reflection - January 24, 2024

“Boundaries For Your Soul: Understood through a Catholic Anthropological Lens” - Weekly Reflection - January 17, 2024

“Book Review: Part 3 -- A Catholic Review of Altogether You by Jenna Riemersma” - Weekly Reflection - January 10, 2024

“Book Review: Part 2 -- A Catholic Review of Altogether You by Jenna Riemersma” - Weekly Reflection - January 3, 2024

“Book Review: Part 1 -- A Catholic Review of Altogether You by Jenna Riemersma” - Weekly Reflection - December 27, 2023

“Book Review: Restoring Relationship” - Weekly Reflection - December 20, 2023

“Review of Parent, Child, and Adult: Healing Our Inner Selves” - Weekly Reflection - December 13, 2023

Borderline Personality

“IIC 129: Relating Well with "Borderline" Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - January 1, 2024

“IIC 128: Recovering from "Borderline Personality" with IFS” - Weekly Reflection - December 18, 2023

“IIC 127: Understanding Borderline Personalities through Internal Family Systems” - Weekly Reflection - December 4, 2023

“IIC 126: Borderline "Personalities": Your Questions Answered by Dr. Greg Bottaro” - Weekly Reflection - November 27, 2023

“IIC 125: Borderline Personality According to the Conventional Secular Experts” - Weekly Reflection - November 6, 2023

Boundaries

“Boundaries Are Good” - - February 5, 2021

Breaking Free

“Breaking Free of Power Struggles to Find Joy - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 83” - Be With The Word - September 21, 2021

“Four Signs of an Addiction and Three Steps to Break Free” - Weekly Reflection - June 3, 2020

Burdens

“IIC 115: Unburdening in Internal Family Systems -- A Catholic Discussion” - Weekly Reflection - June 19, 2023

“IIC 113: A Demonstration of IFS and Your Questions About Anger” - Weekly Reflection - May 15, 2023

COVID-19

“On Vaccine Mandates, Contempt, Families and Thanksgiving…” - Weekly Reflection - November 23, 2021

“Mask Hysteria” - - August 1, 2021

“A Chink in the Armor: Refortifying Ourselves Against Pornography During COVID-19” - Weekly Reflection - January 20, 2021

“Getting Back to Mass in the Middle of a Pandemic” - Weekly Reflection - October 22, 2020

“Balancing on a Tightrope During COVID-19” - Weekly Reflection - September 24, 2020

“Choosing Unity Without Losing Integrity - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 45” - Be With The Word - September 22, 2020

“Growing in Resilience During COVID-19” - Guest Appearance - May 22, 2020

“God's Ways are Not Our Ways - Easter Sunday - Episode 21” - Be With The Word - April 8, 2020

“A Unique Opportunity for Redemptive Suffering - Good Friday - Episode 20” - Be With The Word - April 6, 2020

“The Greatest Psychological Obstacle to Almsgiving in a Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 2, 2020

“A Time for Spiritual and Psychological Growth - Palm Sunday - Episode 19” - Be With The Word - March 31, 2020

“Fasting (the Second Pillar of Lent) and the Coronavirus Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - March 26, 2020

“A Psychological Take on the Coronavirus and Lent:  Prepare for Prayer” - Weekly Reflection - March 19, 2020

Catholic Faith

“A Dissertation on IFS and Catholicism” - Weekly Reflection - February 2, 2024

“Human Formation in Purgatory? Yes, Indeed.” - Weekly Reflection - November 29, 2023

“Three Ways How Saints Have Done Wrong – With Serious Consequences” - Weekly Reflection - November 1, 2023

“Reconciling IFS with Our Catholic Christian Faith” - Weekly Reflection - May 24, 2023

“Catholic Psychology -- Souls and Hearts” - Guest Appearance - February 15, 2023

“Does God Want to Punish Us and Cause Suffering? A Family Therapist Perspective - Corpus Christi - Episode 75” - Be With The Word - June 3, 2021

Catholic Identity

“Revealing Our True Nature with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 1, 2022

Catholic Love

“IIC 94: The Primacy of Love” - Weekly Reflection - June 6, 2022

Catholic Marriage

“IIC 66: Acceptance vs. Endorsement: A Critical Difference in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 3, 2021

“IIC 65: Why Catholic Spouses Find It Hard to Empathize with Each Other, Especially About Sex -- with Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - April 26, 2021

“IIC 64: Subtle Ways Catholics Cheat on their Spouses: How and Why” - Weekly Reflection - April 19, 2021

“IIC 61: Fractured, Fragmented Sex in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - March 29, 2021

“IIC 60: How Well Do You Really Know Your Spouse” - Weekly Reflection - March 22, 2021

“IIC 59: Mystery, Covenant, Vocation, and Being "Submissive" in the Marriage Bed” - Weekly Reflection - March 15, 2021

“IIC 58: The Catholic Marriage Bed” - Weekly Reflection - March 8, 2021

“IIC 57: The One Main Psychological Reason Why Catholic Marriages Fail” - Weekly Reflection - March 1, 2021

“How To Make a Positive Change in Your Family System - Feast of the Holy Family - Episode 5” - Be With The Word - December 24, 2019

Catholic Thought

“Unintentional Bedfellows: The Marriage of IFS and Catholic Thought” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2024

Catholicism

“Catholics Discussing the Upsides of Daydreaming” - Weekly Reflection - August 16, 2023

“Catholics Discussing the Downsides of Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - August 9, 2023

“A Catholic Researcher’s Reference List” - Weekly Reflection - August 2, 2023

“Does Jesus Have Parts?” - Weekly Reflection - July 12, 2023

“Reconciling IFS with Our Catholic Christian Faith” - Weekly Reflection - May 24, 2023

“Link’s Library: Catholic Human Formation Resources” - Weekly Reflection - May 17, 2023

“Catholic Human Formation Is a Lifelong Pilgrimage” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2023

“Catholic Understandings of Human Formation” - Weekly Reflection - March 29, 2023

“Moving Beyond Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 22, 2023

“The Causes and Effects of Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 15, 2023

“The 15 Symptoms of Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 8, 2023

“The Whys of Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 1, 2023

“Spiritual Bypassing: Catholic Style” - Weekly Reflection - February 22, 2023

“Naturalizing and Spiritualizing: Two Errors Catholics Make” - Weekly Reflection - February 15, 2023

“Catholic Being vs. Catholic Doing” - Weekly Reflection - December 28, 2022

“The Deepest Human Formation Work A Catholic Can Do” - Weekly Reflection - September 21, 2022

“Are You a Heretic? Distorted God Images Catholics Hold” - Weekly Reflection - September 14, 2022

“The Real Reason Adults Leave the Church” - Weekly Reflection - August 10, 2022

“The Sacramental Life of a Catholic Christian” - Weekly Reflection - December 23, 2020

“Why a Catholic Therapist?” - Weekly Reflection - July 2, 2020

“Making Spiritual and Social Communions” - Weekly Reflection - June 11, 2020

“What Is Catholic Meditation?” - Weekly Reflection - May 21, 2020

“The Role That Emotions Play in a Good Catholic’s Life” - Weekly Reflection - December 12, 2019

Causes of OCD

“IIC 86: Obsessions, Compulsions, OCD, and Internal Family Systems” - Weekly Reflection - November 1, 2021

Change

“Why We Resist Change – And Especially Radical Transformation” - Weekly Reflection - October 26, 2022

“Believing You Can Change - 1st Sunday of Advent - Episode 1” - Be With The Word - November 26, 2019

Charity

“IIC 36: Why We Flee From Real Love” - Weekly Reflection - October 5, 2020

Childlike

“IIC 35: Being Both Big and Small” - Weekly Reflection - September 28, 2020

“IIC 1: Our Natural Fear of Death is a Gift” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2020

Children of God

“Discovering Who You Are” - Guest Appearance - January 30, 2020

Christian Love

“IIC 94: The Primacy of Love” - Weekly Reflection - June 6, 2022

Christian Marriage

“Guided IFS Experiential Exercise” - Guest Appearance - February 27, 2023

“Experience Healing Through IFS” - Guest Appearance - February 20, 2023

Closed Mind

“Four Ways to Hear With the Heart - 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 34” - Be With The Word - July 7, 2020

Codependency

“Love vs Codependency and People Pleasing - 6th Sunday of Easter - Episode 72” - Be With The Word - May 5, 2021

“St. Paul and Codependency - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 63” - Be With The Word - February 10, 2021

Comfort

“The Key to Stopping Scrupulosity - 3rd Sun of Easter - Episode 71” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2021

Community

“The Need for Community” - Weekly Reflection - May 14, 2020

“IIC 8: The Chasm Between Psychology and Catholicism” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2020

Compulsion

“IIC 86: Obsessions, Compulsions, OCD, and Internal Family Systems” - Weekly Reflection - November 1, 2021

Confidence in Christ

“Four Essentials For God To Grant Your Heart’s Desire - 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 39” - Be With The Word - August 11, 2020

Confidence in God

“IIC 33: Being Open and Coping Well” - Weekly Reflection - September 14, 2020

“IIC 30: How Small and Childlike are We Supposed to Be?” - Weekly Reflection - August 24, 2020

“IIC 23: Sinning, God Images and Resilience” - Weekly Reflection - July 6, 2020

“Developing a Firm Confidence in God - 3rd Sunday of Easter - Episode 23” - Be With The Word - April 21, 2020

Conflict

“Temporary Enemies” - Weekly Reflection - March 23, 2022

“Six Reasons Catholics Don't Know their Enemies” - Weekly Reflection - March 16, 2022

“Definition of Enemies” - Weekly Reflection - March 9, 2022

“Ukraine” - Weekly Reflection - March 2, 2022

“Spiritual Warfare” - Weekly Reflection - February 24, 2022

“Presenting Truth and Accepting Persecution - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 82” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2021

“Judging vs. Perceiving - Pentecost - Episode 74” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2021

“Ending Psychological Power Struggles - Pentecost - Episode 28” - Be With The Word - May 26, 2020

“Transform Conflict Into Better Relationships” - Weekly Reflection - April 23, 2020

“How Maintaining Relationships Through Disagreements Prepares Us For Heaven” - Weekly Reflection - February 27, 2020

Connection

“IIC 93: Three Inner Experiential Exercises” - Weekly Reflection - May 2, 2022

“Abraham and the Parasympathetic Nervous System - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 65” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

Conscience

“Is That "Inner Voice" My Conscience?” - Weekly Reflection - June 8, 2022

Conspiracy Theory

“The TRUTH About Conspiracy Theories (Or Is It?!)” - Guest Appearance - March 6, 2024

“Talking With Friends and Family About Q'Anon” - Guest Appearance - March 5, 2021

Controversial Topics

“Presenting Truth and Accepting Persecution - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 82” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2021

Conversations

“Loving Conversations on Controversial Subjects: A Parts-Informed Approach ” - Weekly Reflection - February 1, 2023

Courage

“Role of Faith in Healing Depression - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 77” - Be With The Word - June 24, 2021

“The Psychology of Courage” - Guest Appearance - June 9, 2021

“How to Triumph Over Fear - 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 31” - Be With The Word - June 15, 2020

Crisis

“IIC 7: The Huge Mistake We Make with our Emotions in a Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 10, 2020

“IIC 5: Your Catholic Mindset and Resilience in Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 3, 2020

Criticism

“Being Docile Through Criticism - 4th Sunday of Easter - Episode 24” - Be With The Word - April 28, 2020

Cross

“How Psychology Gets It Wrong When It Comes to True Happiness - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 32” - Be With The Word - June 22, 2020

Daydreams

“How to Help Your Parts Get Their Needs Met by Working with Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2023

“The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 4, 2023

“Harnessing the Good in Daydreams with St. Ignatius” - Weekly Reflection - September 27, 2023

“What Your Daydreams Tell You About Your Relationships” - Weekly Reflection - September 20, 2023

“Gently Approaching What Underlies Problematic Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - September 13, 2023

“Your Daydreams Reveal Your Secret, Unmet Needs” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2023

“Catholics Discussing the Upsides of Daydreaming” - Weekly Reflection - August 16, 2023

“Catholics Discussing the Downsides of Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - August 9, 2023

“Daydreams: The Secular Experts Speak” - Weekly Reflection - July 19, 2023

Death

“Lent, Life and Death, and Dissociation - 1st Sunday of Lent - Episode 64” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

Debates

“Presenting Truth and Accepting Persecution - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 82” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2021

Depression

“Role of Faith in Healing Depression - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 77” - Be With The Word - June 24, 2021

“IIC 18: Grief vs. Depression” - Weekly Reflection - June 1, 2020

Devaluation

“IIC 118: Narcissism: Who, What, Why, and How? The Secular Experts Share Their Views” - Weekly Reflection - August 7, 2023

Disappointment

“Learning How to Hope Again - 3rd Sunday of Lent - Episode 16” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2020

Discernment

“Discerning God’s Will After the Monastery” - Weekly Reflection - August 20, 2020

“Untangling God’s Love from Our Fallen Natures” - Weekly Reflection - August 13, 2020

“Is Discernment Ever Over? Answering the Call” - Weekly Reflection - July 9, 2020

“Overcoming Paralysis in Seeking God’s Will” - Weekly Reflection - May 7, 2020

Disconnected Parts

“Lent, Life and Death, and Dissociation - 1st Sunday of Lent - Episode 64” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

Disorders

“Lent, Life and Death, and Dissociation - 1st Sunday of Lent - Episode 64” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

Dissociation

“Overcoming Shame Despite Loss and Suffering - Palm Sunday - Episode 69” - Be With The Word - March 26, 2021

“Why We Do Wicked Things - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 67” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2021

“Window of Tolerance - 3rd Sunday of Lent - Episode 66” - Be With The Word - March 3, 2021

“Abraham and the Parasympathetic Nervous System - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 65” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

“Lent, Life and Death, and Dissociation - 1st Sunday of Lent - Episode 64” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

Distraction

“Distracted Prayers: Hidden Reasons for Avoiding God” - Weekly Reflection - January 25, 2023

“Distraction and Prayer: Satan, Symptoms, or Something Else?” - Weekly Reflection - January 11, 2023

Distractions

“Distractions in Prayer: When Our Parts Cry for Help” - Weekly Reflection - January 18, 2023

Divine Mercy

“Forgiveness and Divine Mercy - Divine Mercy Sunday - Episode 22” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2020

Division

“Choosing Unity Without Losing Integrity - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 45” - Be With The Word - September 22, 2020

Docility

“Be the Best Sheep You Can Be - Feast of Christ the King - Episode 53” - Be With The Word - November 17, 2020

“Being Docile Through Criticism - 4th Sunday of Easter - Episode 24” - Be With The Word - April 28, 2020

Doubt

“The Psychology of Doubt - Ascension - Episode 27” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2020

Eating Disorder

“The Holidays and Food! Disordered Eating or an Eating Disorder? - Feast of the Holy Family - Episode 58” - Be With The Word - December 22, 2020

Effects of Trauma

“IIC 88: Trauma: Defining and Understanding the Experience” - Weekly Reflection - January 3, 2022

Elements of Shame

“Shame, Shame, Go Away” - - February 15, 2021

Emotion

“IIC 9: The Flip Side of the Huge Mistake We Make with Our Emotions in a Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 17, 2020

“Emotions Are Morally Neutral - 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 13” - Be With The Word - February 18, 2020

Emotions

“Overcoming Shame Despite Loss and Suffering - Palm Sunday - Episode 69” - Be With The Word - March 26, 2021

“Window of Tolerance - 3rd Sunday of Lent - Episode 66” - Be With The Word - March 3, 2021

“Emotions Are Morally Neutral - 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 13” - Be With The Word - February 18, 2020

“The Secret to Uncover What's Bothering You” - Guest Appearance - February 4, 2020

“The Role That Emotions Play in a Good Catholic’s Life” - Weekly Reflection - December 12, 2019

Empathy

“IIC 65: Why Catholic Spouses Find It Hard to Empathize with Each Other, Especially About Sex -- with Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - April 26, 2021

“Empathy, Sin, and Relationships - 2nd Sunday of Advent - Episode 2” - Be With The Word - December 3, 2019

Eucharist

“IIC 3: Grief Over the Loss of the Eucharist” - Weekly Reflection - March 27, 2020

Exiled Anger

“IIC 113: A Demonstration of IFS and Your Questions About Anger” - Weekly Reflection - May 15, 2023

Experience of Grief

“IIC 83: The Internal Dance of Healthy Grief” - Weekly Reflection - August 30, 2021

“IIC 81: Grieving is the Price We Pay for Loving” - Weekly Reflection - August 16, 2021

Experiential Exercise

“IIC 124: Your Parts, IFS, And War: An Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“IIC 121: Connecting with Your Own Narcissistic Parts: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - September 18, 2023

“IIC 117: Discover the Parts Who Make Up Your "Personality"” - Weekly Reflection - July 17, 2023

“IIC 111: Approaching my Anger from the Other Side: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - April 17, 2023

“IIC 110: Being with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane – Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2023

“IIC 108: Giving up the Idols We Hate -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2023

“IIC 104: Connecting with your Angry Parts -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - January 16, 2023

“IIC 102: Helping your Parts Get the Love They Need: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - December 19, 2022

“IIC 100: Embracing God's Love for Me: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - November 21, 2022

“IIC 97: Unlove of Self: How Trauma Predisposes You to Self-Hatred and Indifference” - Weekly Reflection - September 5, 2022

“IIC 93: Three Inner Experiential Exercises” - Weekly Reflection - May 2, 2022

“IIC 89: Your Trauma, Your Body: Protection vs. Connection” - Weekly Reflection - February 7, 2022

“IIC 88: Trauma: Defining and Understanding the Experience” - Weekly Reflection - January 3, 2022

“IIC 80: How to Help a Loved One Who is Suicidal” - Weekly Reflection - August 9, 2021

“IIC 74: Internal Chaos and Blending vs. Internal Peace and Integration” - Weekly Reflection - June 28, 2021

“IIC 71: A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - June 7, 2021

“IIC 63: Human Formation: The Critical Missing Element” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2021

“IIC 44: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 3” - Weekly Reflection - November 30, 2020

“IIC 43: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 2” - Weekly Reflection - November 23, 2020

“IIC 41: Rewind: Trauma and Shame in King David's Childhood” - Weekly Reflection - November 9, 2020

“IIC 40: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 1” - Weekly Reflection - November 2, 2020

“IIC 33: Being Open and Coping Well” - Weekly Reflection - September 14, 2020

“IIC 10: Your Catholic Body and Crisis: Bodyset” - Weekly Reflection - April 20, 2020

“IIC 7: The Huge Mistake We Make with our Emotions in a Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 10, 2020

“IIC 5: Your Catholic Mindset and Resilience in Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 3, 2020

“The Secret to Uncover What's Bothering You” - Guest Appearance - February 4, 2020

Faith

“Catholics Discussing the Upsides of Daydreaming” - Weekly Reflection - August 16, 2023

“Catholics Discussing the Downsides of Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - August 9, 2023

“Naturalizing and Spiritualizing: Two Errors Catholics Make” - Weekly Reflection - February 15, 2023

“Moving from Rejecting to Embracing God’s Providence” - Weekly Reflection - December 7, 2022

“How and Why We Reject God’s Providence” - Weekly Reflection - November 30, 2022

“Thanksgiving: Skin-Deep vs. Profound” - Weekly Reflection - November 23, 2022

“The Real Reason Adults Leave the Church” - Weekly Reflection - August 10, 2022

“Why Dr Gerry Crete Fused Faith and Attachment Theory Psychology into a 'Litany of the Heart'” - Guest Appearance - May 11, 2022

“Role of Faith in Healing Depression - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 77” - Be With The Word - June 24, 2021

“The Psychology of Doubt - Ascension - Episode 27” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2020

Family

“Review of Parent, Child, and Adult: Healing Our Inner Selves” - Weekly Reflection - December 13, 2023

“Your Tor-Mentors: God's Gift to You at Thanksgiving” - Weekly Reflection - November 22, 2023

“IIC 123: Relating Well with Narcissistic Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - October 16, 2023

“Through the Eyes of a Catholic Toddler” - Weekly Reflection - August 17, 2022

“Who’s Your Daddy? Confusion Over Our Primary Parents” - Weekly Reflection - August 3, 2022

“Loving a Parent Who Doesn’t Love You” - Weekly Reflection - July 27, 2022

“How Parents Use Their Children To Avoid Feeling Shame” - Weekly Reflection - July 20, 2022

“The Sins of the Parents – Conveniently Denied” - Weekly Reflection - July 13, 2022

“The Sins of the Fathers: Unexpressed Love” - Weekly Reflection - July 6, 2022

“On Vaccine Mandates, Contempt, Families and Thanksgiving…” - Weekly Reflection - November 23, 2021

“Understanding the Meaning of Beauty in a Family” - Weekly Reflection - September 10, 2020

“A Narcissist in the Family” - Weekly Reflection - July 30, 2020

“Helping Daughters Develop a Healthy Body Image” - Weekly Reflection - April 30, 2020

“Smart Parenting in the Smartphone Era: Part II Using Resources” - Weekly Reflection - February 13, 2020

“Smart Parenting in the Smartphone Era Part I: Know the Risks” - Weekly Reflection - February 6, 2020

“Changing Yourself First To Help Your Children” - Weekly Reflection - January 9, 2020

“How To Make a Positive Change in Your Family System - Feast of the Holy Family - Episode 5” - Be With The Word - December 24, 2019

“How to Manage Teens and Screens” - Weekly Reflection - December 6, 2019

Fasting

“Fasting (the Second Pillar of Lent) and the Coronavirus Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - March 26, 2020

Father

“The Sins of the Fathers: Unexpressed Love” - Weekly Reflection - July 6, 2022

“What It Means to Be a Good Man and a Good Father - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 57” - Be With The Word - December 15, 2020

“Learning How God Delights in Us - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 15” - Be With The Word - March 3, 2020

Fear

“IIC 124: Your Parts, IFS, And War: An Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“The Psychology of Courage” - Guest Appearance - June 9, 2021

“The Key to Stopping Scrupulosity - 3rd Sun of Easter - Episode 71” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2021

“Psychosomatic Illness” - - February 10, 2021

“Overcoming Fear and Getting Unstuck - 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 52” - Be With The Word - November 10, 2020

“How to Triumph Over Fear - 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 31” - Be With The Word - June 15, 2020

“God's Ways are Not Our Ways - Easter Sunday - Episode 21” - Be With The Word - April 8, 2020

“Living in the Moment - 5th Sunday of Lent - Episode 18” - Be With The Word - March 21, 2020

“IIC 1: Our Natural Fear of Death is a Gift” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2020

“Asking Mary to Reveal the Thoughts of our Hearts - Presentation of the Lord - Episode 10” - Be With The Word - January 28, 2020

Fear of Death

“IIC 1: Our Natural Fear of Death is a Gift” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2020

“Asking Mary to Reveal the Thoughts of our Hearts - Presentation of the Lord - Episode 10” - Be With The Word - January 28, 2020

Fear of God

“IIC 105: How You Hide From Your Anger at God” - Weekly Reflection - February 6, 2023

Fearlessness

“The Psychology of Courage” - Guest Appearance - June 9, 2021

“How to Triumph Over Fear - 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 31” - Be With The Word - June 15, 2020

Food

“The Holidays and Food! Disordered Eating or an Eating Disorder? - Feast of the Holy Family - Episode 58” - Be With The Word - December 22, 2020

Forgiveness

“IIC 113: A Demonstration of IFS and Your Questions About Anger” - Weekly Reflection - May 15, 2023

“Better Homes and Pardons: Finding Freedom Through Forgiveness” - Weekly Reflection - February 8, 2023

“Spy Wednesday” - Weekly Reflection - April 13, 2022

“Trauma and Healing: Forgiveness Is Not Required” - Weekly Reflection - July 23, 2020

“Forgiveness and Divine Mercy - Divine Mercy Sunday - Episode 22” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2020

Formation

“Homeschooling and Mental Health” - Guest Appearance - May 26, 2021

“Some Things Can’t Wait Until The Last Minute - 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 51” - Be With The Word - November 3, 2020

“IIC 8: The Chasm Between Psychology and Catholicism” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2020

Four Pillars

“IIC 4: The Four Pillars of Psychological Resilience for Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2020

Free Will

“Sin, Self, Free Will, Hell, and IFS: A Conversation” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2023

“The Role of Free Will in Addictive Behavior” - Weekly Reflection - March 12, 2020

Freedom

“Legalism vs. License – Two Bad Options for Sheep” - Weekly Reflection - November 9, 2022

“The Whys of Catholic Legalism – With Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - November 2, 2022

Functions of Anger

“IIC 112: Assuaging Raging Hearts and Parts: Managing Anger with IFS Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2023

Gaslighting

“IIC 122: Narcissism and Gaslighting--What Catholics Should Know” - Weekly Reflection - October 2, 2023

Gift

“Blind Spots Can Be Deadly - 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 47” - Be With The Word - October 6, 2020

Gifts

“All Is Gift — Unrecognized Gifts from God” - Weekly Reflection - December 29, 2021

“Judging vs. Perceiving - Pentecost - Episode 74” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2021

“Choosing to Be Grateful - Epiphany - Episode 6” - Be With The Word - December 31, 2019

Gifts of the Holy Spirit

“Judging vs. Perceiving - Pentecost - Episode 74” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2021

Giving

“The Counterfeits of Self-Giving” - Weekly Reflection - August 31, 2022

“Healing Our Sexual Brokenness - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 84” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2021

“Judging Others for Things We Hate in Ourselves - Baptism of Our Lord - Episode 7” - Be With The Word - January 7, 2020

God

“Why Do I Avoid God?” - Guest Appearance - March 1, 2021

“How Unconscious God Images Harm Our Spiritual Lives - Trinity Sunday - Episode 29” - Be With The Word - June 1, 2020

“God Heals Our Deepest Wounds - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 17” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2020

“Learning How God Delights in Us - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 15” - Be With The Word - March 3, 2020

God Images

“IIC 100: Embracing God's Love for Me: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - November 21, 2022

“Are You a Heretic? Distorted God Images Catholics Hold” - Weekly Reflection - September 14, 2022

“Why Do I Avoid God?” - Guest Appearance - March 1, 2021

“IIC 45: How Shame Leads Us to Idolatry” - Weekly Reflection - December 7, 2020

“Blind Spots Can Be Deadly - 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 47” - Be With The Word - October 6, 2020

“IIC 29: Magic Genie Gods and Party-Pooper Gods” - Weekly Reflection - August 17, 2020

“Four Essentials For God To Grant Your Heart’s Desire - 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 39” - Be With The Word - August 11, 2020

“IIC 28: Police Detective Gods, Pushy Salesman Gods, and Heartbreaker Gods” - Weekly Reflection - August 10, 2020

“IIC 27: Robber Gods, Aristocrat Gods and Marshmallow Gods” - Weekly Reflection - August 3, 2020

“IIC 26: Dictator, Pharisee, and Scrooge God Image” - Weekly Reflection - July 27, 2020

“IIC 25: Drill Sergeant Gods, Statue Gods, and Preoccupied Manager” - Weekly Reflection - July 20, 2020

“IIC 24: God Images and Self Images” - Weekly Reflection - July 13, 2020

“IIC 23: Sinning, God Images and Resilience” - Weekly Reflection - July 6, 2020

“Receiving Comfort From God - 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 33” - Be With The Word - June 30, 2020

“How Unconscious God Images Harm Our Spiritual Lives - Trinity Sunday - Episode 29” - Be With The Word - June 1, 2020

“Developing a Firm Confidence in God - 3rd Sunday of Easter - Episode 23” - Be With The Word - April 21, 2020

“Learning How God Delights in Us - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 15” - Be With The Word - March 3, 2020

“Facing Our Distorted Images of God” - Weekly Reflection - January 2, 2020

God the Father

“What It Means to Be a Good Man and a Good Father - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 57” - Be With The Word - December 15, 2020

God's Grace

“How Unconscious God Images Harm Our Spiritual Lives - Trinity Sunday - Episode 29” - Be With The Word - June 1, 2020

God's Love

“IIC 102: Helping your Parts Get the Love They Need: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - December 19, 2022

“IIC 100: Embracing God's Love for Me: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - November 21, 2022

“IIC 99: Why We Catholics Reject God's Love for Us and How to Embrace That Love” - Weekly Reflection - November 7, 2022

“Blind Spots Can Be Deadly - 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 47” - Be With The Word - October 6, 2020

“How to Find Peace That Surpasses All Understanding - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 46” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2020

“Untangling God’s Love from Our Fallen Natures” - Weekly Reflection - August 13, 2020

“God's Ways are Not Our Ways - Easter Sunday - Episode 21” - Be With The Word - April 8, 2020

“Living in the Moment - 5th Sunday of Lent - Episode 18” - Be With The Word - March 21, 2020

God's Will

“See in 3D By Renewing Your Mind - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 41” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2020

“Discerning God’s Will After the Monastery” - Weekly Reflection - August 20, 2020

“Overcoming Paralysis in Seeking God’s Will” - Weekly Reflection - May 7, 2020

Gratitude

“Thanksgiving: Skin-Deep vs. Profound” - Weekly Reflection - November 23, 2022

“Choosing to Be Grateful - Epiphany - Episode 6” - Be With The Word - December 31, 2019

“Embrace a Healthy and Holy Attitude of Gratitude” - Weekly Reflection - November 28, 2019

Grief

“IIC 83: The Internal Dance of Healthy Grief” - Weekly Reflection - August 30, 2021

“IIC 82: The Many Faces of Grief Inside Us” - Weekly Reflection - August 23, 2021

“IIC 81: Grieving is the Price We Pay for Loving” - Weekly Reflection - August 16, 2021

“IIC 79: Suicide's Devastating Impact on Those Left Behind” - Weekly Reflection - August 2, 2021

“IIC 19: Healing from Losses, Healing with Grief” - Weekly Reflection - June 8, 2020

“IIC 18: Grief vs. Depression” - Weekly Reflection - June 1, 2020

“IIC 17: Loss, Grief, Mourning and Resilience – How do They Go Together?” - Weekly Reflection - May 25, 2020

“IIC 3: Grief Over the Loss of the Eucharist” - Weekly Reflection - March 27, 2020

Guilt

“IIC 39: Seeing the Real, Radical, and Resounding Differences Between Shame and Guilt” - Weekly Reflection - October 26, 2020

Happiness

“IIC 90: Your Well-Being: The Secular Experts Speak” - Weekly Reflection - March 7, 2022

“How Psychology Gets It Wrong When It Comes to True Happiness - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 32” - Be With The Word - June 22, 2020

Harmony

“Ending Psychological Power Struggles - Pentecost - Episode 28” - Be With The Word - May 26, 2020

Healing

“IIC 122: Narcissism and Gaslighting--What Catholics Should Know” - Weekly Reflection - October 2, 2023

“Resolving Inner Conflicts by Understanding Our "Wicked" Parts - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 81” - Be With The Word - September 1, 2021

“Role of Faith in Healing Depression - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 77” - Be With The Word - June 24, 2021

“Why We Do Wicked Things - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 67” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2021

“Anger, Wrath, and Vengeance, Oh My! - 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 43” - Be With The Word - September 8, 2020

“Healing From Porn Addiction” - Guest Appearance - September 3, 2020

“Trauma and Healing: Forgiveness Is Not Required” - Weekly Reflection - July 23, 2020

“God Heals Our Deepest Wounds - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 17” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2020

“Despising in Others What We Don’t Tolerate in Ourselves - 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 11” - Be With The Word - February 4, 2020

“How We Store Trauma in Our Bodies - 3rd Sunday of Advent - Episode 3” - Be With The Word - December 10, 2019

Healing from Trauma

“Truth, Culture, Life With Royce Hood” - Guest Appearance - December 11, 2023

“Christ's Body Keeps the Score - 2nd Sunday of Easter - Episode 70” - Be With The Word - April 6, 2021

“Trauma-Fueled Behaviors” - Guest Appearance - September 21, 2020

“Trauma and Healing: Forgiveness Is Not Required” - Weekly Reflection - July 23, 2020

Health

“St. Paul and Codependency - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 63” - Be With The Word - February 10, 2021

Healthy Sexuality

“IIC 50: In Search of a Healthy, Ordered Sexuality” - Weekly Reflection - January 11, 2021

Hearing God's Call

“Letting Go of Self-Sufficiency - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 4” - Be With The Word - December 17, 2019

Heart

“Where do Evil Thoughts Come from? - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 80” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2021

“Trust in the Lord With All Your Heart” - Weekly Reflection - November 19, 2020

Heartset

“IIC 4: The Four Pillars of Psychological Resilience for Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2020

Holidays

“Shift Activities to Avoid the Holiday Blues” - Weekly Reflection - December 16, 2020

“Revise Your Advent Preparation” - Weekly Reflection - December 2, 2020

“We Are an Easter People!” - Weekly Reflection - August 27, 2020

Holy Indifference

“Emotions Are Morally Neutral - 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 13” - Be With The Word - February 18, 2020

Holy Week

“A Guide to Your Personal Formation for Holy Week” - Weekly Reflection - March 27, 2024

Homeschooling

“Homeschooling and Mental Health” - Guest Appearance - May 26, 2021

Hope

“A Unique Opportunity for Redemptive Suffering - Good Friday - Episode 20” - Be With The Word - April 6, 2020

“Learning How to Hope Again - 3rd Sunday of Lent - Episode 16” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2020

Human Formation

“IIC 131: On God's Role in your Human Formation” - Weekly Reflection - February 5, 2024

“The “How” for Your Human Formation” - Weekly Reflection - December 7, 2023

“Human Formation in Purgatory? Yes, Indeed.” - Weekly Reflection - November 29, 2023

“A Catholic Researcher’s Reference List” - Weekly Reflection - August 2, 2023

“Link’s Library: Catholic Human Formation Resources” - Weekly Reflection - May 17, 2023

“On the Importance of C+ Work in Human Formation” - Weekly Reflection - May 10, 2023

“On the Metaphysics of Human Formation” - Weekly Reflection - May 3, 2023

“On the Metaphysics of the Human Person” - Weekly Reflection - April 26, 2023

“The "Whys" of Human Formation” - Weekly Reflection - April 19, 2023

“Who Forms Your Clay?” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2023

“Catholic Human Formation Is a Lifelong Pilgrimage” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2023

“Catholic Understandings of Human Formation” - Weekly Reflection - March 29, 2023

“Distracted Prayers: Hidden Reasons for Avoiding God” - Weekly Reflection - January 25, 2023

“Distractions in Prayer: When Our Parts Cry for Help” - Weekly Reflection - January 18, 2023

“Distraction and Prayer: Satan, Symptoms, or Something Else?” - Weekly Reflection - January 11, 2023

“The Secret Psychological Reasons We Fail to Make Time for Prayer” - Weekly Reflection - January 4, 2023

“Catholic Being vs. Catholic Doing” - Weekly Reflection - December 28, 2022

“From Rejecting to Embracing Aging” - Weekly Reflection - December 21, 2022

“IIC 102: Helping your Parts Get the Love They Need: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - December 19, 2022

“IIC 100: Embracing God's Love for Me: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - November 21, 2022

“IIC 99: Why We Catholics Reject God's Love for Us and How to Embrace That Love” - Weekly Reflection - November 7, 2022

“The Deepest Human Formation Work A Catholic Can Do” - Weekly Reflection - September 21, 2022

“Interview with Dr. Peter Malinoski: "Human Formation Is Essential to Catholic Formation"” - Guest Appearance - August 24, 2021

“IIC 63: Human Formation: The Critical Missing Element” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2021

“IIC 21: How Secular Experts Get Resilience Wrong” - Weekly Reflection - June 22, 2020

“IIC 8: The Chasm Between Psychology and Catholicism” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2020

Humanity

“A Unique Opportunity for Redemptive Suffering - Good Friday - Episode 20” - Be With The Word - April 6, 2020

Humility

“Wholehearted Prayer in Humility” - Weekly Reflection - November 8, 2023

“Presenting Truth and Accepting Persecution - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 82” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2021

“What Does It Mean to Be an Introvert? - Ascension - Episode 73” - Be With The Word - May 12, 2021

“Choosing Unity Without Losing Integrity - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 45” - Be With The Word - September 22, 2020

“Four Essentials For God To Grant Your Heart’s Desire - 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 39” - Be With The Word - August 11, 2020

IFS

“Unintentional Bedfellows: The Marriage of IFS and Catholic Thought” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2024

“A Dissertation on IFS and Catholicism” - Weekly Reflection - February 2, 2024

“Applied Review #1: Boundaries For Your Soul” - Weekly Reflection - January 24, 2024

“Boundaries For Your Soul: Understood through a Catholic Anthropological Lens” - Weekly Reflection - January 17, 2024

“IIC 130: Grounding IFS in Catholicism-- Litanies of the Heart by Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - January 15, 2024

“Book Review: Part 3 -- A Catholic Review of Altogether You by Jenna Riemersma” - Weekly Reflection - January 10, 2024

“Book Review: Part 2 -- A Catholic Review of Altogether You by Jenna Riemersma” - Weekly Reflection - January 3, 2024

“Book Review: Part 1 -- A Catholic Review of Altogether You by Jenna Riemersma” - Weekly Reflection - December 27, 2023

“Book Review: Restoring Relationship” - Weekly Reflection - December 20, 2023

“IIC 128: Recovering from "Borderline Personality" with IFS” - Weekly Reflection - December 18, 2023

“IIC 124: Your Parts, IFS, And War: An Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“Your Parts, IFS, and War in the Middle East” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“How to Help Your Parts Get Their Needs Met by Working with Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2023

“The Three Essential Relationships (Part 2: Myself) with Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - October 12, 2023

“The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 4, 2023

“IIC 122: Narcissism and Gaslighting--What Catholics Should Know” - Weekly Reflection - October 2, 2023

“IIC 120: Understanding Narcissism More Deeply with IFS” - Weekly Reflection - September 4, 2023

“IIC 115: Unburdening in Internal Family Systems -- A Catholic Discussion” - Weekly Reflection - June 19, 2023

“IIC 113: A Demonstration of IFS and Your Questions About Anger” - Weekly Reflection - May 15, 2023

“IIC 112: Assuaging Raging Hearts and Parts: Managing Anger with IFS Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2023

“Unburdening Sexual Arousal (with Dr. Peter Malinoski)” - Guest Appearance - March 6, 2023

“IIC 106: God in the Hands of Angry Sinners -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - February 20, 2023

“IIC 87: Scrupulosity: When OCD Gets Religion” - Weekly Reflection - December 6, 2021

“Resolving Inner Conflicts by Understanding Our "Wicked" Parts - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 81” - Be With The Word - September 1, 2021

“Where do Evil Thoughts Come from? - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 80” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2021

“Being Human Podcast - Episode 36: A Guided Exercise w/ Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - August 17, 2021

“IIC 75: The Blue and the Orange: Reconsidering Depression and Mania Through the Lens of Parts” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2021

“IIC 73: Is Internal Family Systems Really Catholic?” - Weekly Reflection - June 21, 2021

“Ask a Catholic Therapist ANYTHING! W/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 17, 2021

“IIC 71: A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - June 7, 2021

“IIC 42: Practice Deep Listening: Understanding King David's Shame” - Weekly Reflection - November 16, 2020

IIC

“IIC 84: The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the IIC Podcast” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2021

IPNB

“IIC 92: Understanding and Healing Your Mind Through IPNB” - Weekly Reflection - April 4, 2022

Idealization

“IIC 118: Narcissism: Who, What, Why, and How? The Secular Experts Share Their Views” - Weekly Reflection - August 7, 2023

Identity

“IIC 117: Discover the Parts Who Make Up Your "Personality"” - Weekly Reflection - July 17, 2023

“Who Forms Your Clay?” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2023

“Of Mirrors and Identity: The Hardest Question” - Weekly Reflection - September 28, 2022

“Why I Reject the Concept of “Personality”” - Weekly Reflection - August 24, 2022

“Revealing Our True Nature with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 1, 2022

“IIC 75: The Blue and the Orange: Reconsidering Depression and Mania Through the Lens of Parts” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2021

“Role of Faith in Healing Depression - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 77” - Be With The Word - June 24, 2021

“Love vs Codependency and People Pleasing - 6th Sunday of Easter - Episode 72” - Be With The Word - May 5, 2021

“Overcoming Shame Despite Loss and Suffering - Palm Sunday - Episode 69” - Be With The Word - March 26, 2021

“Why We Do Wicked Things - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 67” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2021

“What It Means to Be a Good Man and a Good Father - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 57” - Be With The Word - December 15, 2020

“The Lies We Tell Ourselves in Life Stories - All Saints Day - Episode 50” - Be With The Word - October 27, 2020

“Understanding Superiority Complexes - 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 49” - Be With The Word - October 20, 2020

“Blind Spots Can Be Deadly - 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 47” - Be With The Word - October 6, 2020

“Work is Not a Four-Lettered Word - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 44” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2020

“Being Lost and How To Be Found - 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 40” - Be With The Word - August 18, 2020

“IIC 16: Who Am I, Really? Identity and Resiliency” - Weekly Reflection - May 18, 2020

“Are You for Real?” - Weekly Reflection - March 5, 2020

“Emotions Are Morally Neutral - 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 13” - Be With The Word - February 18, 2020

“The Secret to Uncover What's Bothering You” - Guest Appearance - February 4, 2020

“Discovering Who You Are” - Guest Appearance - January 30, 2020

“Asking Mary to Reveal the Thoughts of our Hearts - Presentation of the Lord - Episode 10” - Be With The Word - January 28, 2020

“Mental Filters Keep Us From Really Knowing Jesus - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 8” - Be With The Word - January 14, 2020

Idolatry

“The Top 10 Needs That Fuel Modern-Day Idol Worship” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2022

Imagination

“Harnessing the Good in Daydreams with St. Ignatius” - Weekly Reflection - September 27, 2023

Individualism

“Finding True Peace Through Humility, Gentleness, and Patience - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 79” - Be With The Word - July 22, 2021

Inner Conflict

“Resolving Inner Conflicts by Understanding Our "Wicked" Parts - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 81” - Be With The Word - September 1, 2021

Inner Experience

“What Your Daydreams Tell You About Your Relationships” - Weekly Reflection - September 20, 2023

“IIC 78: The Desperate Inner Experience of Suicidality” - Weekly Reflection - July 26, 2021

Inner Peace

“Finding True Peace - 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 78” - Be With The Word - July 15, 2021

Inner Work

“The Importance of Inner Work” - Guest Appearance - May 27, 2021

Insecurity

“Finding True Peace - 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 78” - Be With The Word - July 15, 2021

“The Greatest Psychological Obstacle to Almsgiving in a Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 2, 2020

Integrated Learning

“Four Ways to Hear With the Heart - 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 34” - Be With The Word - July 7, 2020

Integrated Personal Formation

“A Touch of Love” - Weekly Reflection - April 17, 2024

“IIC 136: Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation with Fr. Boniface Hicks” - Weekly Reflection - April 15, 2024

“IIC 135: The Tree of Catholic Personal Formation: An Integrative Model” - Weekly Reflection - April 1, 2024

“IIC 134: Looking at Integrated Personal Formation Through a Mathematical Lens” - Weekly Reflection - March 18, 2024

Integration

“Catholic Psychology -- Souls and Hearts” - Guest Appearance - February 15, 2023

“Revealing Our True Nature with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 1, 2022

“Addiction is the Opposite of Connection and Intimacy - Corpus Christi - Episode 30” - Be With The Word - June 8, 2020

Integration of Personal Formation

“IIC 133: Models of Integrated Personal Formation -- Catholic Style, with Matthew Walz, Ph.D.” - Weekly Reflection - March 4, 2024

Integrity Needs

“How to Help Your Parts Get Their Needs Met by Working with Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2023

“Your Daydreams Reveal Your Secret, Unmet Needs” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2023

“IIC 62: Unmet Attachment Needs and Unmet Integrity Needs” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2021

Intentionality

“Transform Advent Without Becoming a Curmudgeon! - 2nd Sunday of Advent - Episode 55” - Be With The Word - December 1, 2020

Interior Integration

“IIC 104: Connecting with your Angry Parts -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - January 16, 2023

“Why We Resist Change – And Especially Radical Transformation” - Weekly Reflection - October 26, 2022

“Examples of Bad Self-Love and the Consequences” - Weekly Reflection - October 19, 2022

“Why Is Interior Integration Crucial for Union with God?” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2022

“St. Thomas Aquinas: You Must Love You. First.” - Weekly Reflection - October 5, 2022

“The Top 10 Needs That Fuel Modern-Day Idol Worship” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2022

“Caiaphas and Interior Integration” - Weekly Reflection - April 6, 2022

“All Is Gift — Unrecognized Gifts from God” - Weekly Reflection - December 29, 2021

“IIC 74: Internal Chaos and Blending vs. Internal Peace and Integration” - Weekly Reflection - June 28, 2021

“IIC 16: Who Am I, Really? Identity and Resiliency” - Weekly Reflection - May 18, 2020

“IIC 14: Soulset: The Core of Us” - Weekly Reflection - May 4, 2020

Interior Integration for Catholics Podcast

“IIC 84: The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the IIC Podcast” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2021

Interior Peace

“IIC 72: What Keeps You from Loving? Is it Really Only Your Vices? (Spoiler Alert: No!)” - Weekly Reflection - June 14, 2021

Internal Battles

“IIC 93: Three Inner Experiential Exercises” - Weekly Reflection - May 2, 2022

Internal Experience

“IIC 116: Why a Single Personality Is Not Enough” - Weekly Reflection - July 3, 2023

“IIC 85: Perfectionism: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How” - Weekly Reflection - October 4, 2021

“IIC 78: The Desperate Inner Experience of Suicidality” - Weekly Reflection - July 26, 2021

Internal Family Systems

“Your Parts, IFS, and War in the Middle East” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“How to Help Your Parts Get Their Needs Met by Working with Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2023

“The Three Essential Relationships (Part 2: Myself) with Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - October 12, 2023

“The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 4, 2023

“Gently Approaching What Underlies Problematic Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - September 13, 2023

“IIC 120: Understanding Narcissism More Deeply with IFS” - Weekly Reflection - September 4, 2023

“Does Jesus Have Parts?” - Weekly Reflection - July 12, 2023

“Sin, Self, Free Will, Hell, and IFS: A Conversation” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2023

“The Institution of the Eucharist: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - June 28, 2023

“The Transfiguration of Jesus: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - June 21, 2023

“IIC 115: Unburdening in Internal Family Systems -- A Catholic Discussion” - Weekly Reflection - June 19, 2023

“Proclamation of the Kingdom: Illuminating Parts through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - June 14, 2023

“The Wedding at Cana: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - June 7, 2023

“The Baptism of Jesus: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - May 31, 2023

“Reconciling IFS with Our Catholic Christian Faith” - Weekly Reflection - May 24, 2023

“IIC 113: A Demonstration of IFS and Your Questions About Anger” - Weekly Reflection - May 15, 2023

“IIC 112: Assuaging Raging Hearts and Parts: Managing Anger with IFS Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2023

“Unburdening Sexual Arousal (with Dr. Peter Malinoski)” - Guest Appearance - March 6, 2023

“IIC 106: God in the Hands of Angry Sinners -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - February 20, 2023

“Loving Conversations on Controversial Subjects: A Parts-Informed Approach ” - Weekly Reflection - February 1, 2023

“Distractions in Prayer: When Our Parts Cry for Help” - Weekly Reflection - January 18, 2023

“The Conflicting Loves Inside You” - Weekly Reflection - June 29, 2022

“Ukraine” - Weekly Reflection - March 2, 2022

“IIC 87: Scrupulosity: When OCD Gets Religion” - Weekly Reflection - December 6, 2021

“Inner Pre-Evangelization: A Focus on Internal Trust” - Weekly Reflection - December 1, 2021

“Where do Evil Thoughts Come from? - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 80” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2021

“Being Human Podcast - Episode 36: A Guided Exercise w/ Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - August 17, 2021

“IIC 75: The Blue and the Orange: Reconsidering Depression and Mania Through the Lens of Parts” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2021

“IIC 73: Is Internal Family Systems Really Catholic?” - Weekly Reflection - June 21, 2021

“Ask a Catholic Therapist ANYTHING! W/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 17, 2021

“IIC 71: A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - June 7, 2021

“IIC 42: Practice Deep Listening: Understanding King David's Shame” - Weekly Reflection - November 16, 2020

Interpersonal Neurobiology

“IIC 92: Understanding and Healing Your Mind Through IPNB” - Weekly Reflection - April 4, 2022

Intimacy

“IIC 70: Catholic Sex and the Four Pillars -- and the Dos and Don'ts of Sharing about your Sexual Life” - Weekly Reflection - May 31, 2021

“IIC 67: Catholic and UnCatholic Sex in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 10, 2021

“IIC 65: Why Catholic Spouses Find It Hard to Empathize with Each Other, Especially About Sex -- with Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - April 26, 2021

“IIC 58: The Catholic Marriage Bed” - Weekly Reflection - March 8, 2021

Intimacy with God

“IIC 34: Radical Receptivity” - Weekly Reflection - September 21, 2020

Introversion

“What Does It Mean to Be an Introvert? - Ascension - Episode 73” - Be With The Word - May 12, 2021

Intrusive Thoughts

“The Secret to Uncover What's Bothering You” - Guest Appearance - February 4, 2020

Jesus

“Does Jesus Have Parts?” - Weekly Reflection - July 12, 2023

“IIC 110: Being with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane – Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2023

“IIC 109: Jesus' Psychological Agony in the Garden” - Weekly Reflection - April 3, 2023

Joy

“Breaking Free of Power Struggles to Find Joy - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 83” - Be With The Word - September 21, 2021

“Surviving the Holiday Blues - 3rd Sunday of Advent - Episode 56” - Be With The Word - December 8, 2020

“Transform Advent Without Becoming a Curmudgeon! - 2nd Sunday of Advent - Episode 55” - Be With The Word - December 1, 2020

“How to Find Joy Unexpectedly - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 36” - Be With The Word - July 21, 2020

Judging Others

“Despising in Others What We Don’t Tolerate in Ourselves - 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 11” - Be With The Word - February 4, 2020

“Judging Others for Things We Hate in Ourselves - Baptism of Our Lord - Episode 7” - Be With The Word - January 7, 2020

Judgment

“How to Find Joy Unexpectedly - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 36” - Be With The Word - July 21, 2020

“Judging Others for Things We Hate in Ourselves - Baptism of Our Lord - Episode 7” - Be With The Word - January 7, 2020

Justice

“Understanding Justice and Justification” - Weekly Reflection - June 18, 2020

Legacy Burdens

“IIC 113: A Demonstration of IFS and Your Questions About Anger” - Weekly Reflection - May 15, 2023

Legalism

“Legalism vs. License – Two Bad Options for Sheep” - Weekly Reflection - November 9, 2022

“The Whys of Catholic Legalism – With Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - November 2, 2022

Leisure

“Made for Leisure” - Weekly Reflection - October 8, 2020

Lent

“Fasting (the Second Pillar of Lent) and the Coronavirus Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - March 26, 2020

“A Psychological Take on the Coronavirus and Lent:  Prepare for Prayer” - Weekly Reflection - March 19, 2020

Letters

“Seven Reasons Why Handwritten Letters Can Be Holy and Healthy” - Weekly Reflection - April 16, 2020

Letting Go

“God Heals Our Deepest Wounds - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 17” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2020

License

“Legalism vs. License – Two Bad Options for Sheep” - Weekly Reflection - November 9, 2022

“The Whys of Catholic Legalism – With Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - November 2, 2022

Life

“Abraham and the Parasympathetic Nervous System - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 65” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

“Lent, Life and Death, and Dissociation - 1st Sunday of Lent - Episode 64” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

“St. Paul and Codependency - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 63” - Be With The Word - February 10, 2021

“The Lies We Tell Ourselves in Life Stories - All Saints Day - Episode 50” - Be With The Word - October 27, 2020

Life Story

“The Lies We Tell Ourselves in Life Stories - All Saints Day - Episode 50” - Be With The Word - October 27, 2020

Listening

“IIC 68: Improving Sexual Intimacy in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 17, 2021

“IIC 42: Practice Deep Listening: Understanding King David's Shame” - Weekly Reflection - November 16, 2020

“IIC 41: Rewind: Trauma and Shame in King David's Childhood” - Weekly Reflection - November 9, 2020

“IIC 40: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 1” - Weekly Reflection - November 2, 2020

“Listening Doesn't Equal Condoning - 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 9” - Be With The Word - January 21, 2020

Litanies

“St. Dymphna, St. Maria Goretti, and the Litanies of the Heart” - Guest Appearance - October 10, 2023

“Why Dr Gerry Crete Fused Faith and Attachment Theory Psychology into a 'Litany of the Heart'” - Guest Appearance - May 11, 2022

Litanies of the Heart

“Gerry Crete Explains 'Litanies Of The Heart'” - Guest Appearance - March 6, 2024

“Dr. Gerry Crete Litanies of the Heart: Relieving Post-Traumatic Stress and Calming Anxiety” - Guest Appearance - March 6, 2024

“Litanies of the Heart, Reviewed by Elizabeth Galanti” - Weekly Reflection - February 28, 2024

“IIC 132: Live Q&A with Dr. Gerry on His Book, "Litanies of the Heart"” - Weekly Reflection - February 19, 2024

“Relieving Post-Traumatic Stress and Calming Anxiety Through Healing our Parts w/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - January 31, 2024

“Outgrowing Porn Through Parts Work” - Guest Appearance - January 23, 2024

“Dr. Gerry Crete Wrote Litanies Of The Heart To Help With PTSD Counseling” - Guest Appearance - January 22, 2024

“Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - January 18, 2024

“The Catholic Morning Show - Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - January 18, 2024

“Recovering From Stress and Anxiety with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - January 18, 2024

“Healing Through Parts Work and Litanies of the Heart, w/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - January 15, 2024

“Dr. Gerry Crete Wrote Litanies of the Heart” - Guest Appearance - January 15, 2024

“These Prayers Bring Instant Peace” - Guest Appearance - January 15, 2024

“IIC 130: Grounding IFS in Catholicism-- Litanies of the Heart by Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - January 15, 2024

“St. Dymphna, St. Maria Goretti, and the Litanies of the Heart” - Guest Appearance - October 10, 2023

“Why Dr Gerry Crete Fused Faith and Attachment Theory Psychology into a 'Litany of the Heart'” - Guest Appearance - May 11, 2022

“IIC 91: Special Episode: The Litanies of the Heart with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - March 25, 2022

Litany

“Litany for a Burnt-Out Soul” - Guest Appearance - December 10, 2022

Living in the Moment

“Living in the Moment - 5th Sunday of Lent - Episode 18” - Be With The Word - March 21, 2020

Loneliness

“Loneliness vs. Alienation” - Guest Appearance - April 14, 2021

Loss

“IIC 82: The Many Faces of Grief Inside Us” - Weekly Reflection - August 23, 2021

“IIC 17: Loss, Grief, Mourning and Resilience – How do They Go Together?” - Weekly Reflection - May 25, 2020

Love

“IIC 102: Helping your Parts Get the Love They Need: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - December 19, 2022

“IIC 101: A Story About Receiving Love” - Weekly Reflection - December 5, 2022

“IIC 100: Embracing God's Love for Me: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - November 21, 2022

“IIC 99: Why We Catholics Reject God's Love for Us and How to Embrace That Love” - Weekly Reflection - November 7, 2022

“IIC 98: Self-Love: What Catholics Need to Know” - Weekly Reflection - October 3, 2022

“IIC 97: Unlove of Self: How Trauma Predisposes You to Self-Hatred and Indifference” - Weekly Reflection - September 5, 2022

“IIC 96: I Am a Rock: How Trauma Hardens Us Against Being Loved” - Weekly Reflection - August 1, 2022

“Loving a Parent Who Doesn’t Love You” - Weekly Reflection - July 27, 2022

“IIC 95: Trauma's Devastating Impact on Our Capacity to Love” - Weekly Reflection - July 4, 2022

“IIC 94: The Primacy of Love” - Weekly Reflection - June 6, 2022

“IIC 93: Three Inner Experiential Exercises” - Weekly Reflection - May 2, 2022

“Three Elements of Loving” - Weekly Reflection - February 17, 2022

“IIC 82: The Many Faces of Grief Inside Us” - Weekly Reflection - August 23, 2021

“IIC 81: Grieving is the Price We Pay for Loving” - Weekly Reflection - August 16, 2021

“IIC 80: How to Help a Loved One Who is Suicidal” - Weekly Reflection - August 9, 2021

“Finding True Peace Through Humility, Gentleness, and Patience - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 79” - Be With The Word - July 22, 2021

“IIC 75: The Blue and the Orange: Reconsidering Depression and Mania Through the Lens of Parts” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2021

“IIC 74: Internal Chaos and Blending vs. Internal Peace and Integration” - Weekly Reflection - June 28, 2021

“IIC 72: What Keeps You from Loving? Is it Really Only Your Vices? (Spoiler Alert: No!)” - Weekly Reflection - June 14, 2021

“IIC 71: A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - June 7, 2021

“Love vs Codependency and People Pleasing - 6th Sunday of Easter - Episode 72” - Be With The Word - May 5, 2021

“Tolerating Being Loved” - Guest Appearance - April 28, 2021

“Learning From Suffering - 5th Sunday of Lent - Episode 68” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2021

“Loving People We Disagree With - 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 62” - Be With The Word - January 19, 2021

“Surviving the Holiday Blues - 3rd Sunday of Advent - Episode 56” - Be With The Word - December 8, 2020

“IIC 36: Why We Flee From Real Love” - Weekly Reflection - October 5, 2020

“Work is Not a Four-Lettered Word - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 44” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2020

“Three Principles of Exercising Real Love - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 42” - Be With The Word - September 1, 2020

“The Real Reason to Be Obedient - 6th Sunday of Easter - Episode 26” - Be With The Word - May 12, 2020

“Psychological Barriers to Recognizing Jesus - 5th Sunday of Easter - Episode 25” - Be With The Word - May 5, 2020

“IIC 13: Bodyset: Loving and Reverencing Our Bodies – With Dr. Andrew Sodergren” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2020

“Brain Development and Addictive Cycles” - Guest Appearance - March 5, 2020

“How My History with Authority Figures Affects My Relationship with God - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 12” - Be With The Word - February 11, 2020

Love Languages

“A Touch of Love” - Weekly Reflection - April 17, 2024

“How Children Need Love from You” - Weekly Reflection - April 10, 2024

“Healing Our Parts ... So We Can Love Better” - Weekly Reflection - April 3, 2024

Loving Others

“Listening Doesn't Equal Condoning - 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 9” - Be With The Word - January 21, 2020

Loving Our Body

“IIC 13: Bodyset: Loving and Reverencing Our Bodies – With Dr. Andrew Sodergren” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2020

“IIC 12: Bodyset: Accepting our Bodies – with Dr. Andrew Sodergren” - Weekly Reflection - April 27, 2020

“IIC 10: Your Catholic Body and Crisis: Bodyset” - Weekly Reflection - April 20, 2020

Luminous Mysteries

“The Institution of the Eucharist: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - June 28, 2023

“The Transfiguration of Jesus: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - June 21, 2023

“Proclamation of the Kingdom: Illuminating Parts through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - June 14, 2023

“The Wedding at Cana: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - June 7, 2023

“The Baptism of Jesus: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries” - Weekly Reflection - May 31, 2023

Lying

“On “Mental Reservation” and Examining Our Motives” - Weekly Reflection - June 1, 2022

“Six Reasons for Catholics To Not Tell the Whole Truth” - Weekly Reflection - May 25, 2022

“Seeking Truth vs. Not Lying” - Weekly Reflection - May 18, 2022

“Santa and Myth (Gabriel Crawford)” - Weekly Reflection - May 11, 2022

“Santa and Lying” - Weekly Reflection - May 4, 2022

“Justifying Lyings” - Weekly Reflection - April 27, 2022

“Lying” - Weekly Reflection - April 20, 2022

Marital Infidelity

“IIC 64: Subtle Ways Catholics Cheat on their Spouses: How and Why” - Weekly Reflection - April 19, 2021

Marriage

“Guided IFS Experiential Exercise” - Guest Appearance - February 27, 2023

“Experience Healing Through IFS” - Guest Appearance - February 20, 2023

“IIC 70: Catholic Sex and the Four Pillars -- and the Dos and Don'ts of Sharing about your Sexual Life” - Weekly Reflection - May 31, 2021

“IIC 69: Good and Bad Sex in Catholic Marriages: What are the Moral Limits?” - Weekly Reflection - May 24, 2021

“Judging vs. Perceiving - Pentecost - Episode 74” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2021

“IIC 68: Improving Sexual Intimacy in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 17, 2021

“IIC 67: Catholic and UnCatholic Sex in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 10, 2021

“IIC 66: Acceptance vs. Endorsement: A Critical Difference in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 3, 2021

“IIC 65: Why Catholic Spouses Find It Hard to Empathize with Each Other, Especially About Sex -- with Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - April 26, 2021

“IIC 64: Subtle Ways Catholics Cheat on their Spouses: How and Why” - Weekly Reflection - April 19, 2021

“IIC 61: Fractured, Fragmented Sex in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - March 29, 2021

“IIC 60: How Well Do You Really Know Your Spouse” - Weekly Reflection - March 22, 2021

“IIC 59: Mystery, Covenant, Vocation, and Being "Submissive" in the Marriage Bed” - Weekly Reflection - March 15, 2021

“IIC 58: The Catholic Marriage Bed” - Weekly Reflection - March 8, 2021

“IIC 57: The One Main Psychological Reason Why Catholic Marriages Fail” - Weekly Reflection - March 1, 2021

“The Psychology of Money in the Sacrament of Marriage” - Weekly Reflection - May 28, 2020

“How To Make a Positive Change in Your Family System - Feast of the Holy Family - Episode 5” - Be With The Word - December 24, 2019

Mary

“Mary, Our Spiritual Mother, and Scrupulosity” - Weekly Reflection - December 8, 2021

“Asking Mary to Reveal the Thoughts of our Hearts - Presentation of the Lord - Episode 10” - Be With The Word - January 28, 2020

Masculinity

“What It Means to Be a Good Man and a Good Father - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 57” - Be With The Word - December 15, 2020

“Solitude, Masculinity, and Men’s Health” - Weekly Reflection - April 9, 2020

Masturbation

“Anti-Masturbationism – A False Religion” - Weekly Reflection - November 16, 2022

“IIC 54: Masturbation Recovery Stories” - Weekly Reflection - February 8, 2021

“IIC 53: Breaking Free from Masturbation, Part 2” - Weekly Reflection - February 1, 2021

“IIC 52: Breaking Free from Masturbation, Part 1” - Weekly Reflection - January 25, 2021

“IIC 51: Top Ten Reasons Why Catholic Men Masturbate” - Weekly Reflection - January 18, 2021

Mediator

“The Self as Mediator - 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 85” - Be With The Word - October 20, 2021

Meditation

“What Is Catholic Meditation?” - Weekly Reflection - May 21, 2020

“Can Catholics Practice Mindfulness?” - Weekly Reflection - January 30, 2020

Mental Filters

“Mental Filters Keep Us From Really Knowing Jesus - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 8” - Be With The Word - January 14, 2020

Mental Health

“IIC 90: Your Well-Being: The Secular Experts Speak” - Weekly Reflection - March 7, 2022

“The Importance of Inner Work” - Guest Appearance - May 27, 2021

“Homeschooling and Mental Health” - Guest Appearance - May 26, 2021

Metaphysics

“The Metaphysics of Voluntariness” - Weekly Reflection - August 30, 2023

“The Metaphysics of the Human Act” - Weekly Reflection - August 23, 2023

“On the Metaphysics of Human Formation” - Weekly Reflection - May 3, 2023

“On the Metaphysics of the Human Person” - Weekly Reflection - April 26, 2023

Mind-Body Connection

“Christ's Body Keeps the Score - 2nd Sunday of Easter - Episode 70” - Be With The Word - April 6, 2021

Mindfulness

“Can Catholics Practice Mindfulness?” - Weekly Reflection - January 30, 2020

“Mindfulness, Self-Care, and Dealing with Stress” - Guest Appearance - March 26, 2019

Mindset

“IIC 6: A Call To Arms: Rise Up, Red-Blooded Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - April 6, 2020

“IIC 5: Your Catholic Mindset and Resilience in Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 3, 2020

“IIC 4: The Four Pillars of Psychological Resilience for Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2020

Mindsets

“IIC 6: A Call To Arms: Rise Up, Red-Blooded Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - April 6, 2020

“IIC 5: Your Catholic Mindset and Resilience in Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 3, 2020

Mission

“State of Souls and Hearts” - Weekly Reflection - March 6, 2024

“How Psychology Gets It Wrong When It Comes to True Happiness - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 32” - Be With The Word - June 22, 2020

Morality

“The Metaphysics of Voluntariness” - Weekly Reflection - August 30, 2023

“The Metaphysics of the Human Act” - Weekly Reflection - August 23, 2023

Mourning

“IIC 17: Loss, Grief, Mourning and Resilience – How do They Go Together?” - Weekly Reflection - May 25, 2020

Myers-Briggs Personality

“Judging vs. Perceiving - Pentecost - Episode 74” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2021

Narcissism

“Overcoming Narcissism with Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - January 17, 2024

“How to Deal With a Narcissist with Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - December 2, 2023

“IIC 123: Relating Well with Narcissistic Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - October 16, 2023

“IIC 121: Connecting with Your Own Narcissistic Parts: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - September 18, 2023

“IIC 120: Understanding Narcissism More Deeply with IFS” - Weekly Reflection - September 4, 2023

“IIC 119: Narcissism: Q & A with Dr. Peter Martin” - Weekly Reflection - August 21, 2023

“IIC 118: Narcissism: Who, What, Why, and How? The Secular Experts Share Their Views” - Weekly Reflection - August 7, 2023

“IIC 46: Shame and Tragedy: Judas Iscariot and You” - Weekly Reflection - December 14, 2020

“A Narcissist in the Family” - Weekly Reflection - July 30, 2020

Narcissistic Behavior

“Overcoming Narcissism with Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - January 17, 2024

“How to Deal With a Narcissist with Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - December 2, 2023

“IIC 118: Narcissism: Who, What, Why, and How? The Secular Experts Share Their Views” - Weekly Reflection - August 7, 2023

Narcissistic Family

“Overcoming Narcissism with Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - January 17, 2024

“How to Deal With a Narcissist with Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - December 2, 2023

“IIC 123: Relating Well with Narcissistic Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - October 16, 2023

“A Narcissist in the Family” - Weekly Reflection - July 30, 2020

Natural

“Naturalizing and Spiritualizing: Two Errors Catholics Make” - Weekly Reflection - February 15, 2023

OCD

“IIC 86: Obsessions, Compulsions, OCD, and Internal Family Systems” - Weekly Reflection - November 1, 2021

Obedience

“The Real Reason to Be Obedient - 6th Sunday of Easter - Episode 26” - Be With The Word - May 12, 2020

Obsession

“IIC 86: Obsessions, Compulsions, OCD, and Internal Family Systems” - Weekly Reflection - November 1, 2021

Obsessive Thinking

“The Key to Stopping Scrupulosity - 3rd Sun of Easter - Episode 71” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2021

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

“IIC 86: Obsessions, Compulsions, OCD, and Internal Family Systems” - Weekly Reflection - November 1, 2021

Openness

“Openess vs. Receptivity” - Guest Appearance - April 21, 2021

“IIC 34: Radical Receptivity” - Weekly Reflection - September 21, 2020

“IIC 33: Being Open and Coping Well” - Weekly Reflection - September 14, 2020

Opportunity for Suffering

“A Unique Opportunity for Redemptive Suffering - Good Friday - Episode 20” - Be With The Word - April 6, 2020

Overcoming Addiction

“Learning to Wait: The First Step to Overcoming Addiction - 1st Sunday of Advent - Episode 54” - Be With The Word - November 24, 2020

Overcoming Masturbation

“IIC 52: Breaking Free from Masturbation, Part 1” - Weekly Reflection - January 25, 2021

Overcoming Temptation

“Sinful Temptations Often Reveal Legitimate Needs - 1st Sunday of Lent - Episode 14” - Be With The Word - February 21, 2020

Pain

“Three Principles of Exercising Real Love - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 42” - Be With The Word - September 1, 2020

Parasympathetic Nervous System

“Abraham and the Parasympathetic Nervous System - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 65” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

Parent Figures

“Receiving Comfort From God - 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 33” - Be With The Word - June 30, 2020

Parenting

“Review of Parent, Child, and Adult: Healing Our Inner Selves” - Weekly Reflection - December 13, 2023

“Does God Want to Punish Us and Cause Suffering? A Family Therapist Perspective - Corpus Christi - Episode 75” - Be With The Word - June 3, 2021

“Smart Parenting in the Smartphone Era: Part II Using Resources” - Weekly Reflection - February 13, 2020

“Smart Parenting in the Smartphone Era Part I: Know the Risks” - Weekly Reflection - February 6, 2020

“Changing Yourself First To Help Your Children” - Weekly Reflection - January 9, 2020

Parents

“Who’s Your Daddy? Confusion Over Our Primary Parents” - Weekly Reflection - August 3, 2022

“Loving a Parent Who Doesn’t Love You” - Weekly Reflection - July 27, 2022

“The Sins of the Parents – Conveniently Denied” - Weekly Reflection - July 13, 2022

Parts

“Review of Parent, Child, and Adult: Healing Our Inner Selves” - Weekly Reflection - December 13, 2023

“IIC 124: Your Parts, IFS, And War: An Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“Your Parts, IFS, and War in the Middle East” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 4, 2023

“What Your Daydreams Tell You About Your Relationships” - Weekly Reflection - September 20, 2023

“IIC 121: Connecting with Your Own Narcissistic Parts: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - September 18, 2023

“IIC 117: Discover the Parts Who Make Up Your "Personality"” - Weekly Reflection - July 17, 2023

“IIC 116: Why a Single Personality Is Not Enough” - Weekly Reflection - July 3, 2023

“IIC 115: Unburdening in Internal Family Systems -- A Catholic Discussion” - Weekly Reflection - June 19, 2023

“IIC 112: Assuaging Raging Hearts and Parts: Managing Anger with IFS Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2023

“IIC 111: Approaching my Anger from the Other Side: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - April 17, 2023

“IIC 108: Giving up the Idols We Hate -- Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - March 20, 2023

“Guided IFS Experiential Exercise” - Guest Appearance - February 27, 2023

“IIC 100: Embracing God's Love for Me: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - November 21, 2022

“Why I Reject the Concept of “Personality”” - Weekly Reflection - August 24, 2022

“Revealing Our True Nature with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 1, 2022

“Resolving Inner Conflicts by Understanding Our "Wicked" Parts - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 81” - Be With The Word - September 1, 2021

“IIC 83: The Internal Dance of Healthy Grief” - Weekly Reflection - August 30, 2021

“Where do Evil Thoughts Come from? - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 80” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2021

“Being Human Podcast - Episode 36: A Guided Exercise w/ Dr. Peter Malinoski” - Guest Appearance - August 17, 2021

“IIC 75: The Blue and the Orange: Reconsidering Depression and Mania Through the Lens of Parts” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2021

“Ask a Catholic Therapist ANYTHING! W/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 17, 2021

“Why Do I Avoid God?” - Guest Appearance - March 1, 2021

Peace

“Finding True Peace Through Humility, Gentleness, and Patience - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 79” - Be With The Word - July 22, 2021

“Finding True Peace - 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 78” - Be With The Word - July 15, 2021

“IIC 74: Internal Chaos and Blending vs. Internal Peace and Integration” - Weekly Reflection - June 28, 2021

“IIC 72: What Keeps You from Loving? Is it Really Only Your Vices? (Spoiler Alert: No!)” - Weekly Reflection - June 14, 2021

“How to Find Peace That Surpasses All Understanding - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 46” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2020

Perfectionism

“IIC 85: Perfectionism: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How” - Weekly Reflection - October 4, 2021

“Why It's Okay to Pray Badly - 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 35” - Be With The Word - July 14, 2020

Perseverance

“Four Essentials For God To Grant Your Heart’s Desire - 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 39” - Be With The Word - August 11, 2020

Personality

“Review of The Crowded Room TV series with a Brief History of Multiple Personality Disorder and Ego State Therapy” - Weekly Reflection - November 15, 2023

“IIC 125: Borderline Personality According to the Conventional Secular Experts” - Weekly Reflection - November 6, 2023

“IIC 117: Discover the Parts Who Make Up Your "Personality"” - Weekly Reflection - July 17, 2023

“IIC 116: Why a Single Personality Is Not Enough” - Weekly Reflection - July 3, 2023

“Why I Reject the Concept of “Personality”” - Weekly Reflection - August 24, 2022

Petitionary Prayer

“Four Essentials For God To Grant Your Heart’s Desire - 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 39” - Be With The Word - August 11, 2020

Philosophical Worldview

“Presenting Truth and Accepting Persecution - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 82” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2021

Philosophy

“Unity of Body and Soul - New Creation! - 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 76” - Be With The Word - June 17, 2021

Politics

“Talking With Friends and Family About Q'Anon” - Guest Appearance - March 5, 2021

Polyvagal Theory

“IIC 89: Your Trauma, Your Body: Protection vs. Connection” - Weekly Reflection - February 7, 2022

Porn

“Working With Parts That Want Porn (IFS)” - Guest Appearance - January 9, 2024

“Guided IFS Experiential Exercise” - Guest Appearance - February 27, 2023

“Experience Healing Through IFS” - Guest Appearance - February 20, 2023

“IIC 56: What is Essential for Catholics to Recover from Pornography” - Weekly Reflection - February 22, 2021

“IIC 55: Why Catholics Use Pornography” - Weekly Reflection - February 15, 2021

“Healing From Porn Addiction” - Guest Appearance - September 3, 2020

Porn Addiction

“Working With Parts That Want Porn (IFS)” - Guest Appearance - January 9, 2024

“IIC 55: Why Catholics Use Pornography” - Weekly Reflection - February 15, 2021

“Healing From Porn Addiction” - Guest Appearance - September 3, 2020

“Unpacking Addiction” - Guest Appearance - March 10, 2020

“Brain Development and Addictive Cycles” - Guest Appearance - March 5, 2020

Pornography

“Working With Parts That Want Porn (IFS)” - Guest Appearance - January 9, 2024

“Guided IFS Experiential Exercise” - Guest Appearance - February 27, 2023

“Experience Healing Through IFS” - Guest Appearance - February 20, 2023

“IIC 56: What is Essential for Catholics to Recover from Pornography” - Weekly Reflection - February 22, 2021

“IIC 55: Why Catholics Use Pornography” - Weekly Reflection - February 15, 2021

“A Chink in the Armor: Refortifying Ourselves Against Pornography During COVID-19” - Weekly Reflection - January 20, 2021

“The Porn Pandemic” - Weekly Reflection - October 1, 2020

“Healing From Porn Addiction” - Guest Appearance - September 3, 2020

“Four Signs of an Addiction and Three Steps to Break Free” - Weekly Reflection - June 3, 2020

Power Struggles

“Ending Psychological Power Struggles - Pentecost - Episode 28” - Be With The Word - May 26, 2020

Prayer

“Wholehearted Prayer in Humility” - Weekly Reflection - November 8, 2023

“Distracted Prayers: Hidden Reasons for Avoiding God” - Weekly Reflection - January 25, 2023

“Distractions in Prayer: When Our Parts Cry for Help” - Weekly Reflection - January 18, 2023

“Distraction and Prayer: Satan, Symptoms, or Something Else?” - Weekly Reflection - January 11, 2023

“The Secret Psychological Reasons We Fail to Make Time for Prayer” - Weekly Reflection - January 4, 2023

“IIC 91: Special Episode: The Litanies of the Heart with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - March 25, 2022

“Shame, the Prayer Killer” - Weekly Reflection - December 15, 2021

“Four Essentials For God To Grant Your Heart’s Desire - 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 39” - Be With The Word - August 11, 2020

“Why It's Okay to Pray Badly - 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 35” - Be With The Word - July 14, 2020

“A Psychological Take on the Coronavirus and Lent:  Prepare for Prayer” - Weekly Reflection - March 19, 2020

Prayers

“IIC 91: Special Episode: The Litanies of the Heart with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - March 25, 2022

Processing Grief

“IIC 83: The Internal Dance of Healthy Grief” - Weekly Reflection - August 30, 2021

Protection

“IIC 93: Three Inner Experiential Exercises” - Weekly Reflection - May 2, 2022

Providence

“Seeing Your Difficulties Through the Eyes of Providence” - Weekly Reflection - December 14, 2022

“Moving from Rejecting to Embracing God’s Providence” - Weekly Reflection - December 7, 2022

“How and Why We Reject God’s Providence” - Weekly Reflection - November 30, 2022

“Heads I Win, Tails You Lose - 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 48” - Be With The Word - October 13, 2020

“Three Principles of Exercising Real Love - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 42” - Be With The Word - September 1, 2020

“See in 3D By Renewing Your Mind - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 41” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2020

Psychological Defenses

“How To Work Through Our Psychological Defenses to Enrich Our Relationship with God and Others” - Weekly Reflection - December 26, 2019

Psychological Health

“IIC 15: The Main Sign of Psychological Health” - Weekly Reflection - May 11, 2020

Psychology

“Catholic Psychology -- Souls and Hearts” - Guest Appearance - February 15, 2023

Psychosomatic Illnesses

“Psychosomatic Illness” - - February 10, 2021

Quiet

“How to Stop Impulsive Behavior - 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 38” - Be With The Word - August 4, 2020

RCC

“IIC 84: The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the IIC Podcast” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2021

Real Love

“IIC 36: Why We Flee From Real Love” - Weekly Reflection - October 5, 2020

Realistic Expectations

“Surviving the Holiday Blues - 3rd Sunday of Advent - Episode 56” - Be With The Word - December 8, 2020

Receiving

“Judging Others for Things We Hate in Ourselves - Baptism of Our Lord - Episode 7” - Be With The Word - January 7, 2020

Receiving Love

“IIC 96: I Am a Rock: How Trauma Hardens Us Against Being Loved” - Weekly Reflection - August 1, 2022

Receptivity

“Openess vs. Receptivity” - Guest Appearance - April 21, 2021

“IIC 34: Radical Receptivity” - Weekly Reflection - September 21, 2020

Recognizing Gifts

“Choosing to Be Grateful - Epiphany - Episode 6” - Be With The Word - December 31, 2019

Recognizing Jesus

“Psychological Barriers to Recognizing Jesus - 5th Sunday of Easter - Episode 25” - Be With The Word - May 5, 2020

Recollection

“How to Stop Impulsive Behavior - 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 38” - Be With The Word - August 4, 2020

Reconciliation

“Forgiveness and Divine Mercy - Divine Mercy Sunday - Episode 22” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2020

Recovering from Porn

“IIC 56: What is Essential for Catholics to Recover from Pornography” - Weekly Reflection - February 22, 2021

“IIC 55: Why Catholics Use Pornography” - Weekly Reflection - February 15, 2021

Recovery

“IIC 122: Narcissism and Gaslighting--What Catholics Should Know” - Weekly Reflection - October 2, 2023

“Radical Way to Approach Recovery - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 61” - Be With The Word - January 13, 2021

Relationship

“Book Review: Restoring Relationship” - Weekly Reflection - December 20, 2023

“Anger, Wrath, and Vengeance, Oh My! - 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 43” - Be With The Word - September 8, 2020

Relationship Conflicts

“IIC 126: Borderline "Personalities": Your Questions Answered by Dr. Greg Bottaro” - Weekly Reflection - November 27, 2023

“How to Break Through Relationship Conflicts - Baptism of Our Lord - Episode 60” - Be With The Word - January 6, 2021

Relationship with God

“The Secret Psychological Reasons We Fail to Make Time for Prayer” - Weekly Reflection - January 4, 2023

“How and Why We Reject God’s Providence” - Weekly Reflection - November 30, 2022

“Why Is Interior Integration Crucial for Union with God?” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2022

“IIC 91: Special Episode: The Litanies of the Heart with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - March 25, 2022

“The Self as Mediator - 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 85” - Be With The Word - October 20, 2021

“Openess vs. Receptivity” - Guest Appearance - April 21, 2021

“Learning From Suffering - 5th Sunday of Lent - Episode 68” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2021

“What Is Theoria? - The Epiphany of Our Lord - Episode 59” - Be With The Word - December 29, 2020

“Blind Spots Can Be Deadly - 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 47” - Be With The Word - October 6, 2020

“How to Find Peace That Surpasses All Understanding - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 46” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2020

“Being Lost and How To Be Found - 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 40” - Be With The Word - August 18, 2020

“How to Stop Impulsive Behavior - 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 38” - Be With The Word - August 4, 2020

“Finding Safety in a Turbulent World - 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 37” - Be With The Word - July 28, 2020

“Why It's Okay to Pray Badly - 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 35” - Be With The Word - July 14, 2020

“IIC 23: Sinning, God Images and Resilience” - Weekly Reflection - July 6, 2020

“Making Spiritual and Social Communions” - Weekly Reflection - June 11, 2020

“The Psychology of Doubt - Ascension - Episode 27” - Be With The Word - May 19, 2020

“Learning How God Delights in Us - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 15” - Be With The Word - March 3, 2020

“How My History with Authority Figures Affects My Relationship with God - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 12” - Be With The Word - February 11, 2020

“Despising in Others What We Don’t Tolerate in Ourselves - 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 11” - Be With The Word - February 4, 2020

“Mental Filters Keep Us From Really Knowing Jesus - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 8” - Be With The Word - January 14, 2020

“Facing Our Distorted Images of God” - Weekly Reflection - January 2, 2020

“How To Work Through Our Psychological Defenses to Enrich Our Relationship with God and Others” - Weekly Reflection - December 26, 2019

“Believing You Can Change - 1st Sunday of Advent - Episode 1” - Be With The Word - November 26, 2019

Relationships

“IIC 123: Relating Well with Narcissistic Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete” - Weekly Reflection - October 16, 2023

“IIC 122: Narcissism and Gaslighting--What Catholics Should Know” - Weekly Reflection - October 2, 2023

“What Your Daydreams Tell You About Your Relationships” - Weekly Reflection - September 20, 2023

“Loving Conversations on Controversial Subjects: A Parts-Informed Approach ” - Weekly Reflection - February 1, 2023

“Temporary Enemies” - Weekly Reflection - March 23, 2022

“Six Reasons Catholics Don't Know their Enemies” - Weekly Reflection - March 16, 2022

“Definition of Enemies” - Weekly Reflection - March 9, 2022

“Three Elements of Loving” - Weekly Reflection - February 17, 2022

“Healing Our Sexual Brokenness - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 84” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2021

“Boundaries Are Good” - - February 5, 2021

“Loving People We Disagree With - 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 62” - Be With The Word - January 19, 2021

“How to Break Through Relationship Conflicts - Baptism of Our Lord - Episode 60” - Be With The Word - January 6, 2021

“Shift Activities to Avoid the Holiday Blues” - Weekly Reflection - December 16, 2020

“What It Means to Be a Good Man and a Good Father - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 57” - Be With The Word - December 15, 2020

“Understanding the Meaning of Beauty in a Family” - Weekly Reflection - September 10, 2020

“Being Lost and How To Be Found - 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 40” - Be With The Word - August 18, 2020

“Finding Safety in a Turbulent World - 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 37” - Be With The Word - July 28, 2020

“How to Find Joy Unexpectedly - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 36” - Be With The Word - July 21, 2020

“Addiction is the Opposite of Connection and Intimacy - Corpus Christi - Episode 30” - Be With The Word - June 8, 2020

“The Psychology of Money in the Sacrament of Marriage” - Weekly Reflection - May 28, 2020

“The Need for Community” - Weekly Reflection - May 14, 2020

“Being Docile Through Criticism - 4th Sunday of Easter - Episode 24” - Be With The Word - April 28, 2020

“Transform Conflict Into Better Relationships” - Weekly Reflection - April 23, 2020

“Seven Reasons Why Handwritten Letters Can Be Holy and Healthy” - Weekly Reflection - April 16, 2020

“How Maintaining Relationships Through Disagreements Prepares Us For Heaven” - Weekly Reflection - February 27, 2020

“Despising in Others What We Don’t Tolerate in Ourselves - 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 11” - Be With The Word - February 4, 2020

“What to Say to an Abuse Victim” - Weekly Reflection - January 16, 2020

“How To Work Through Our Psychological Defenses to Enrich Our Relationship with God and Others” - Weekly Reflection - December 26, 2019

“Empathy, Sin, and Relationships - 2nd Sunday of Advent - Episode 2” - Be With The Word - December 3, 2019

Repentance

“The Key to Stopping Scrupulosity - 3rd Sun of Easter - Episode 71” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2021

“IIC 48: Shame and Repentance: St. Dismas” - Weekly Reflection - December 28, 2020

“Transform Advent Without Becoming a Curmudgeon! - 2nd Sunday of Advent - Episode 55” - Be With The Word - December 1, 2020

Resentment

“Three Principles of Exercising Real Love - 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 42” - Be With The Word - September 1, 2020

Resilience

“IIC 31: The One Essential You Must Have to Be Resilient” - Weekly Reflection - August 31, 2020

“IIC 22: The Core of Catholic Resilience” - Weekly Reflection - June 29, 2020

“IIC 21: How Secular Experts Get Resilience Wrong” - Weekly Reflection - June 22, 2020

“IIC 20: Ten Factors of Resilience” - Weekly Reflection - June 15, 2020

“IIC 17: Loss, Grief, Mourning and Resilience – How do They Go Together?” - Weekly Reflection - May 25, 2020

“Growing in Resilience During COVID-19” - Guest Appearance - May 22, 2020

“IIC 4: The Four Pillars of Psychological Resilience for Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2020

Resiliency

“How to Stop Impulsive Behavior - 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 38” - Be With The Word - August 4, 2020

“IIC 17: Loss, Grief, Mourning and Resilience – How do They Go Together?” - Weekly Reflection - May 25, 2020

“IIC 6: A Call To Arms: Rise Up, Red-Blooded Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - April 6, 2020

“IIC 5: Your Catholic Mindset and Resilience in Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 3, 2020

“IIC 4: The Four Pillars of Psychological Resilience for Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2020

Resilient

“IIC 31: The One Essential You Must Have to Be Resilient” - Weekly Reflection - August 31, 2020

Resilient Catholics Community

“IIC 84: The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the IIC Podcast” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2021

Resistance

“Mask Hysteria” - - August 1, 2021

Resolutions

“The Power of a Word” - Weekly Reflection - January 23, 2020

Resolving Anger

“IIC 112: Assuaging Raging Hearts and Parts: Managing Anger with IFS Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2023

“IIC 103: Your Anger, Your Body and You” - Weekly Reflection - January 2, 2023

Revealing Our Unconscious

“Asking Mary to Reveal the Thoughts of our Hearts - Presentation of the Lord - Episode 10” - Be With The Word - January 28, 2020

Roe v. Wade

“Healing in the Wake of Roe V. Wade w/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 27, 2022

Sacrifice

“Does God Want to Punish Us and Cause Suffering? A Family Therapist Perspective - Corpus Christi - Episode 75” - Be With The Word - June 3, 2021

“How Psychology Gets It Wrong When It Comes to True Happiness - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 32” - Be With The Word - June 22, 2020

“The Greatest Psychological Obstacle to Almsgiving in a Crisis” - Weekly Reflection - April 2, 2020

Safety

“Abraham and the Parasympathetic Nervous System - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 65” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

“Finding Safety in a Turbulent World - 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 37” - Be With The Word - July 28, 2020

Saints

“Three Ways How Saints Have Done Wrong – With Serious Consequences” - Weekly Reflection - November 1, 2023

Santa

“Santa and Myth (Gabriel Crawford)” - Weekly Reflection - May 11, 2022

“Santa and Lying” - Weekly Reflection - May 4, 2022

Scripture

“Caiaphas and Interior Integration” - Weekly Reflection - April 6, 2022

“IIC 77: Suicide on Sacred Scripture” - Weekly Reflection - July 19, 2021

“IIC 48: Shame and Repentance: St. Dismas” - Weekly Reflection - December 28, 2020

“IIC 47: Shame and Redemption: St. Peter and You” - Weekly Reflection - December 21, 2020

“IIC 46: Shame and Tragedy: Judas Iscariot and You” - Weekly Reflection - December 14, 2020

“Philippians 4 as a Remedy for Anxiety” - Weekly Reflection - November 24, 2020

“IIC 42: Practice Deep Listening: Understanding King David's Shame” - Weekly Reflection - November 16, 2020

“IIC 41: Rewind: Trauma and Shame in King David's Childhood” - Weekly Reflection - November 9, 2020

“IIC 18: Grief vs. Depression” - Weekly Reflection - June 1, 2020

“IIC 16: Who Am I, Really? Identity and Resiliency” - Weekly Reflection - May 18, 2020

Scrupulosity

“Mary, Our Spiritual Mother, and Scrupulosity” - Weekly Reflection - December 8, 2021

“IIC 87: Scrupulosity: When OCD Gets Religion” - Weekly Reflection - December 6, 2021

“Ask a Catholic Therapist ANYTHING! W/ Dr. Gerry Crete” - Guest Appearance - June 17, 2021

“The Key to Stopping Scrupulosity - 3rd Sun of Easter - Episode 71” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2021

“The Roots of Scrupulosity” - Guest Appearance - August 20, 2020

Security

“Finding Safety in a Turbulent World - 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 37” - Be With The Word - July 28, 2020

Seeing

“See in 3D By Renewing Your Mind - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 41” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2020

Self

“The Counterfeits of Self-Giving” - Weekly Reflection - August 31, 2022

“The Self as Mediator - 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 85” - Be With The Word - October 20, 2021

“Healing Our Sexual Brokenness - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 84” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2021

“Where do Evil Thoughts Come from? - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 80” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2021

“What Does It Mean to Be an Introvert? - Ascension - Episode 73” - Be With The Word - May 12, 2021

Self Image

“IIC 25: Drill Sergeant Gods, Statue Gods, and Preoccupied Manager” - Weekly Reflection - July 20, 2020

“IIC 24: God Images and Self Images” - Weekly Reflection - July 13, 2020

Self-Care

“Mindfulness, Self-Care, and Dealing with Stress” - Guest Appearance - March 26, 2019

Self-Growth

“What’s the Difference Between Life Coaching and Therapy?” - Weekly Reflection - October 15, 2020

“IIC 35: Being Both Big and Small” - Weekly Reflection - September 28, 2020

“Changing Yourself First To Help Your Children” - Weekly Reflection - January 9, 2020

Self-Hatred

“IIC 97: Unlove of Self: How Trauma Predisposes You to Self-Hatred and Indifference” - Weekly Reflection - September 5, 2022

Self-Identity

“IIC 117: Discover the Parts Who Make Up Your "Personality"” - Weekly Reflection - July 17, 2023

“IIC 116: Why a Single Personality Is Not Enough” - Weekly Reflection - July 3, 2023

“IIC 75: The Blue and the Orange: Reconsidering Depression and Mania Through the Lens of Parts” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2021

“IIC 73: Is Internal Family Systems Really Catholic?” - Weekly Reflection - June 21, 2021

“IIC 49: The Secret Impact of our Shame on our Sexuality” - Weekly Reflection - January 4, 2021

“IIC 35: Being Both Big and Small” - Weekly Reflection - September 28, 2020

“IIC 14: Soulset: The Core of Us” - Weekly Reflection - May 4, 2020

Self-Knowledge

“IIC 124: Your Parts, IFS, And War: An Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“How to Help Your Parts Get Their Needs Met by Working with Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2023

“The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - October 4, 2023

“What Your Daydreams Tell You About Your Relationships” - Weekly Reflection - September 20, 2023

“IIC 121: Connecting with Your Own Narcissistic Parts: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - September 18, 2023

“Gently Approaching What Underlies Problematic Daydreams” - Weekly Reflection - September 13, 2023

“Daydreams: The Secular Experts Speak” - Weekly Reflection - July 19, 2023

“IIC 117: Discover the Parts Who Make Up Your "Personality"” - Weekly Reflection - July 17, 2023

“IIC 116: Why a Single Personality Is Not Enough” - Weekly Reflection - July 3, 2023

“Who Forms Your Clay?” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2023

“IIC 110: Being with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane – Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - April 5, 2023

“Seeing Your Difficulties Through the Eyes of Providence” - Weekly Reflection - December 14, 2022

“Of Mirrors and Identity: The Hardest Question” - Weekly Reflection - September 28, 2022

“Is That "Inner Voice" My Conscience?” - Weekly Reflection - June 8, 2022

“Breaking Free of Power Struggles to Find Joy - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 83” - Be With The Word - September 21, 2021

“IIC 73: Is Internal Family Systems Really Catholic?” - Weekly Reflection - June 21, 2021

“IIC 71: A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - June 7, 2021

“The Importance of Inner Work” - Guest Appearance - May 27, 2021

“What Does It Mean to Be an Introvert? - Ascension - Episode 73” - Be With The Word - May 12, 2021

“Why Do I Avoid God?” - Guest Appearance - March 1, 2021

“Radical Way to Approach Recovery - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 61” - Be With The Word - January 13, 2021

“IIC 44: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 3” - Weekly Reflection - November 30, 2020

“IIC 43: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 2” - Weekly Reflection - November 23, 2020

“IIC 41: Rewind: Trauma and Shame in King David's Childhood” - Weekly Reflection - November 9, 2020

“IIC 40: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 1” - Weekly Reflection - November 2, 2020

“IIC 38: Seeing the Signs of Shame in Yourself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - October 19, 2020

“IIC 35: Being Both Big and Small” - Weekly Reflection - September 28, 2020

“Spot Your Strengths in Five Easy Steps” - Weekly Reflection - September 3, 2020

“How Do You Know When You Need Counseling?” - Weekly Reflection - June 25, 2020

“Understanding Justice and Justification” - Weekly Reflection - June 18, 2020

“IIC 14: Soulset: The Core of Us” - Weekly Reflection - May 4, 2020

“IIC 6: A Call To Arms: Rise Up, Red-Blooded Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - April 6, 2020

“Are You for Real?” - Weekly Reflection - March 5, 2020

“The Secret to Uncover What's Bothering You” - Guest Appearance - February 4, 2020

“Believing You Can Change - 1st Sunday of Advent - Episode 1” - Be With The Word - November 26, 2019

Self-Love

“IIC 121: Connecting with Your Own Narcissistic Parts: Experiential Exercise” - Weekly Reflection - September 18, 2023

“Examples of Bad Self-Love and the Consequences” - Weekly Reflection - October 19, 2022

“St. Thomas Aquinas: You Must Love You. First.” - Weekly Reflection - October 5, 2022

“IIC 98: Self-Love: What Catholics Need to Know” - Weekly Reflection - October 3, 2022

“IIC 97: Unlove of Self: How Trauma Predisposes You to Self-Hatred and Indifference” - Weekly Reflection - September 5, 2022

“IIC 82: The Many Faces of Grief Inside Us” - Weekly Reflection - August 23, 2021

“IIC 72: What Keeps You from Loving? Is it Really Only Your Vices? (Spoiler Alert: No!)” - Weekly Reflection - June 14, 2021

“IIC 71: A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - June 7, 2021

“IIC 13: Bodyset: Loving and Reverencing Our Bodies – With Dr. Andrew Sodergren” - Weekly Reflection - May 1, 2020

“Helping Daughters Develop a Healthy Body Image” - Weekly Reflection - April 30, 2020

“IIC 12: Bodyset: Accepting our Bodies – with Dr. Andrew Sodergren” - Weekly Reflection - April 27, 2020

Self-Sufficiency

“Letting Go of Self-Sufficiency - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 4” - Be With The Word - December 17, 2019

Self-Worth

“Work is Not a Four-Lettered Word - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 44” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2020

Selflessness

“How Psychology Gets It Wrong When It Comes to True Happiness - 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 32” - Be With The Word - June 22, 2020

Service

“Learning From Suffering - 5th Sunday of Lent - Episode 68” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2021

Sex

“IIC 70: Catholic Sex and the Four Pillars -- and the Dos and Don'ts of Sharing about your Sexual Life” - Weekly Reflection - May 31, 2021

“IIC 69: Good and Bad Sex in Catholic Marriages: What are the Moral Limits?” - Weekly Reflection - May 24, 2021

“IIC 68: Improving Sexual Intimacy in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 17, 2021

“IIC 67: Catholic and UnCatholic Sex in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 10, 2021

“IIC 65: Why Catholic Spouses Find It Hard to Empathize with Each Other, Especially About Sex -- with Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - April 26, 2021

“IIC 61: Fractured, Fragmented Sex in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - March 29, 2021

“IIC 59: Mystery, Covenant, Vocation, and Being "Submissive" in the Marriage Bed” - Weekly Reflection - March 15, 2021

“IIC 58: The Catholic Marriage Bed” - Weekly Reflection - March 8, 2021

Sexual Brokenness

“Healing Our Sexual Brokenness - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 84” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2021

Sexual Expressions

“IIC 69: Good and Bad Sex in Catholic Marriages: What are the Moral Limits?” - Weekly Reflection - May 24, 2021

Sexual Issues

“IIC 114: Lifting Sexual Burdens: An IFS Demonstration with Drew Boa” - Weekly Reflection - June 5, 2023

“Unburdening Sexual Arousal (with Dr. Peter Malinoski)” - Guest Appearance - March 6, 2023

“IIC 68: Improving Sexual Intimacy in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 17, 2021

“IIC 61: Fractured, Fragmented Sex in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - March 29, 2021

“IIC 54: Masturbation Recovery Stories” - Weekly Reflection - February 8, 2021

“IIC 53: Breaking Free from Masturbation, Part 2” - Weekly Reflection - February 1, 2021

“IIC 52: Breaking Free from Masturbation, Part 1” - Weekly Reflection - January 25, 2021

“IIC 51: Top Ten Reasons Why Catholic Men Masturbate” - Weekly Reflection - January 18, 2021

Sexual Struggles

“Unburdening Sexual Arousal (with Dr. Peter Malinoski)” - Guest Appearance - March 6, 2023

“Anti-Masturbationism – A False Religion” - Weekly Reflection - November 16, 2022

“IIC 49: The Secret Impact of our Shame on our Sexuality” - Weekly Reflection - January 4, 2021

Sexuality

“IIC 50: In Search of a Healthy, Ordered Sexuality” - Weekly Reflection - January 11, 2021

“IIC 49: The Secret Impact of our Shame on our Sexuality” - Weekly Reflection - January 4, 2021

Shame

“How Parents Use Their Children To Avoid Feeling Shame” - Weekly Reflection - July 20, 2022

“Shame, the Prayer Killer” - Weekly Reflection - December 15, 2021

“The Key to Stopping Scrupulosity - 3rd Sun of Easter - Episode 71” - Be With The Word - April 14, 2021

“Overcoming Shame Despite Loss and Suffering - Palm Sunday - Episode 69” - Be With The Word - March 26, 2021

“Shame, Shame, Go Away” - - February 15, 2021

“IIC 48: Shame and Repentance: St. Dismas” - Weekly Reflection - December 28, 2020

“IIC 47: Shame and Redemption: St. Peter and You” - Weekly Reflection - December 21, 2020

“IIC 46: Shame and Tragedy: Judas Iscariot and You” - Weekly Reflection - December 14, 2020

“IIC 45: How Shame Leads Us to Idolatry” - Weekly Reflection - December 7, 2020

“Overcoming Fear and Getting Unstuck - 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 52” - Be With The Word - November 10, 2020

“IIC 40: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 1” - Weekly Reflection - November 2, 2020

“The Lies We Tell Ourselves in Life Stories - All Saints Day - Episode 50” - Be With The Word - October 27, 2020

“IIC 39: Seeing the Real, Radical, and Resounding Differences Between Shame and Guilt” - Weekly Reflection - October 26, 2020

“IIC 38: Seeing the Signs of Shame in Yourself and Others” - Weekly Reflection - October 19, 2020

“IIC 37: The Silent Killer Who Stalks You From Inside” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2020

“How to Find Peace That Surpasses All Understanding - 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 46” - Be With The Word - September 29, 2020

“Addiction is the Opposite of Connection and Intimacy - Corpus Christi - Episode 30” - Be With The Word - June 8, 2020

“A Time for Spiritual and Psychological Growth - Palm Sunday - Episode 19” - Be With The Word - March 31, 2020

“Despising in Others What We Don’t Tolerate in Ourselves - 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 11” - Be With The Word - February 4, 2020

Sheep

“Be the Best Sheep You Can Be - Feast of Christ the King - Episode 53” - Be With The Word - November 17, 2020

Signs of Suicide

“IIC 76: The Darkness of Suicide -- What Do the Secular Experts Say?” - Weekly Reflection - July 12, 2021

Silence

“Our Fear of Silence” - Weekly Reflection - January 19, 2022

“Solitude, Masculinity, and Men’s Health” - Weekly Reflection - April 9, 2020

Sin

“Sin, Self, Free Will, Hell, and IFS: A Conversation” - Weekly Reflection - July 5, 2023

“The Sins of the Parents – Conveniently Denied” - Weekly Reflection - July 13, 2022

“Dangerous Love” - Weekly Reflection - June 22, 2022

“What Is Sin, Really? Seven Ways to Understand Sin” - Weekly Reflection - June 15, 2022

“Is That "Inner Voice" My Conscience?” - Weekly Reflection - June 8, 2022

“Trauma, Sin, and Enemies” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2022

“Spiritual Warfare” - Weekly Reflection - February 24, 2022

“Sinful Temptations Often Reveal Legitimate Needs - 1st Sunday of Lent - Episode 14” - Be With The Word - February 21, 2020

“Empathy, Sin, and Relationships - 2nd Sunday of Advent - Episode 2” - Be With The Word - December 3, 2019

Soulset

“IIC 14: Soulset: The Core of Us” - Weekly Reflection - May 4, 2020

“IIC 4: The Four Pillars of Psychological Resilience for Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2020

Spiritual

“Naturalizing and Spiritualizing: Two Errors Catholics Make” - Weekly Reflection - February 15, 2023

Spiritual Bypassing

“Moving Beyond Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 22, 2023

“The Causes and Effects of Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 15, 2023

“The 15 Symptoms of Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 8, 2023

“The Whys of Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 1, 2023

“Spiritual Bypassing: Catholic Style” - Weekly Reflection - February 22, 2023

“Anger, Wrath, and Vengeance, Oh My! - 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 43” - Be With The Word - September 8, 2020

Spiritual Childhood

“IIC 30: How Small and Childlike are We Supposed to Be?” - Weekly Reflection - August 24, 2020

Spiritual Direction

“IIC 136: Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation with Fr. Boniface Hicks” - Weekly Reflection - April 15, 2024

Spiritual Formation

“IIC 21: How Secular Experts Get Resilience Wrong” - Weekly Reflection - June 22, 2020

“IIC 8: The Chasm Between Psychology and Catholicism” - Weekly Reflection - April 12, 2020

Spiritual Growth

“Interview with Dr. Peter Malinoski: "Human Formation Is Essential to Catholic Formation"” - Guest Appearance - August 24, 2021

“Be the Best Sheep You Can Be - Feast of Christ the King - Episode 53” - Be With The Word - November 17, 2020

Spiritual Health

“The Importance of Inner Work” - Guest Appearance - May 27, 2021

Spiritual Pilgrimage

“Surviving the Holiday Blues - 3rd Sunday of Advent - Episode 56” - Be With The Word - December 8, 2020

Spouses

“IIC 66: Acceptance vs. Endorsement: A Critical Difference in Catholic Marriages” - Weekly Reflection - May 3, 2021

“IIC 65: Why Catholic Spouses Find It Hard to Empathize with Each Other, Especially About Sex -- with Solutions” - Weekly Reflection - April 26, 2021

“IIC 60: How Well Do You Really Know Your Spouse” - Weekly Reflection - March 22, 2021

Strengths

“Spot Your Strengths in Five Easy Steps” - Weekly Reflection - September 3, 2020

Stress

“Coping With Anxiety” - Weekly Reflection - September 17, 2020

“A Time for Spiritual and Psychological Growth - Palm Sunday - Episode 19” - Be With The Word - March 31, 2020

“IIC 4: The Four Pillars of Psychological Resilience for Catholics” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2020

“IIC 2: Our Stress Responses: Discovering, Understanding and Improving Them” - Weekly Reflection - March 25, 2020

“Mindfulness, Self-Care, and Dealing with Stress” - Guest Appearance - March 26, 2019

Stress Response

“IIC 2: Our Stress Responses: Discovering, Understanding and Improving Them” - Weekly Reflection - March 25, 2020

Suffering

“St. Dymphna, St. Maria Goretti, and the Litanies of the Heart” - Guest Appearance - October 10, 2023

“Suffering vs. Mental Pain” - Weekly Reflection - January 26, 2022

“Breaking Free of Power Struggles to Find Joy - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 83” - Be With The Word - September 21, 2021

“Overcoming Shame Despite Loss and Suffering - Palm Sunday - Episode 69” - Be With The Word - March 26, 2021

“Learning From Suffering - 5th Sunday of Lent - Episode 68” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2021

“A Unique Opportunity for Redemptive Suffering - Good Friday - Episode 20” - Be With The Word - April 6, 2020

Suicidal Thoughts

“IIC 80: How to Help a Loved One Who is Suicidal” - Weekly Reflection - August 9, 2021

Suicide

“IIC 80: How to Help a Loved One Who is Suicidal” - Weekly Reflection - August 9, 2021

“IIC 79: Suicide's Devastating Impact on Those Left Behind” - Weekly Reflection - August 2, 2021

“IIC 78: The Desperate Inner Experience of Suicidality” - Weekly Reflection - July 26, 2021

“IIC 77: Suicide on Sacred Scripture” - Weekly Reflection - July 19, 2021

“IIC 76: The Darkness of Suicide -- What Do the Secular Experts Say?” - Weekly Reflection - July 12, 2021

Superiority Complex

“Understanding Superiority Complexes - 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 49” - Be With The Word - October 20, 2020

Surrender

“Learning to Wait: The First Step to Overcoming Addiction - 1st Sunday of Advent - Episode 54” - Be With The Word - November 24, 2020

“How to Find Joy Unexpectedly - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 36” - Be With The Word - July 21, 2020

“A Time for Spiritual and Psychological Growth - Palm Sunday - Episode 19” - Be With The Word - March 31, 2020

Symptoms

“The 15 Symptoms of Catholic Spiritual Bypassing” - Weekly Reflection - March 8, 2023

Symptoms of Trauma

“IIC 88: Trauma: Defining and Understanding the Experience” - Weekly Reflection - January 3, 2022

Technology

“Pros & Cons of Video Counseling” - Weekly Reflection - August 6, 2020

“Smart Parenting in the Smartphone Era: Part II Using Resources” - Weekly Reflection - February 13, 2020

“Smart Parenting in the Smartphone Era Part I: Know the Risks” - Weekly Reflection - February 6, 2020

“How to Manage Teens and Screens” - Weekly Reflection - December 6, 2019

Temperance

“The Holidays and Food! Disordered Eating or an Eating Disorder? - Feast of the Holy Family - Episode 58” - Be With The Word - December 22, 2020

Temptation

“Sinful Temptations Often Reveal Legitimate Needs - 1st Sunday of Lent - Episode 14” - Be With The Word - February 21, 2020

Thanksgiving

“On Vaccine Mandates, Contempt, Families and Thanksgiving…” - Weekly Reflection - November 23, 2021

“Embrace a Healthy and Holy Attitude of Gratitude” - Weekly Reflection - November 28, 2019

Theoria

“What Is Theoria? - The Epiphany of Our Lord - Episode 59” - Be With The Word - December 29, 2020

Therapy

“Subjectivism and Catholic Therapy” - Weekly Reflection - December 22, 2021

“What’s the Difference Between Life Coaching and Therapy?” - Weekly Reflection - October 15, 2020

“Pros & Cons of Video Counseling” - Weekly Reflection - August 6, 2020

“Why a Catholic Therapist?” - Weekly Reflection - July 2, 2020

“How Do You Know When You Need Counseling?” - Weekly Reflection - June 25, 2020

“What’s the Past Got to Do With It?” - Weekly Reflection - February 20, 2020

“How to Find the Right Counselor” - Weekly Reflection - December 19, 2019

“How to Manage Teens and Screens” - Weekly Reflection - December 6, 2019

Thoughts

“The Importance of Positive Thinking” - Weekly Reflection - January 13, 2021

“Thought Labeling Helps Us Slow Down” - Weekly Reflection - July 16, 2020

“The Secret to Uncover What's Bothering You” - Guest Appearance - February 4, 2020

Trauma

“Truth, Culture, Life With Royce Hood” - Guest Appearance - December 11, 2023

“IIC 95: Trauma's Devastating Impact on Our Capacity to Love” - Weekly Reflection - July 4, 2022

“Trauma, Sin, and Enemies” - Weekly Reflection - March 30, 2022

“Trauma and the Body” - Weekly Reflection - February 9, 2022

“IIC 89: Your Trauma, Your Body: Protection vs. Connection” - Weekly Reflection - February 7, 2022

“IIC 88: Trauma: Defining and Understanding the Experience” - Weekly Reflection - January 3, 2022

“Christ's Body Keeps the Score - 2nd Sunday of Easter - Episode 70” - Be With The Word - April 6, 2021

“Why We Do Wicked Things - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 67” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2021

“IIC 40: Rape, Incest, Shame, and Silence: A True Story Reexamined, Part 1” - Weekly Reflection - November 2, 2020

“Trauma-Fueled Behaviors” - Guest Appearance - September 21, 2020

“IIC 32: Trauma, Trust, Treatment, and Truth” - Weekly Reflection - September 7, 2020

“What Does Trauma Have to Do With Addiction?” - Guest Appearance - September 2, 2020

“Trauma and Healing: Forgiveness Is Not Required” - Weekly Reflection - July 23, 2020

“Anxiety, Trauma and Addiction” - Guest Appearance - April 27, 2020

“How We Store Trauma in Our Bodies - 3rd Sunday of Advent - Episode 3” - Be With The Word - December 10, 2019

Traumatic Reenactment

“Why We Do Wicked Things - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 67” - Be With The Word - March 10, 2021

Tree of Formation

“IIC 135: The Tree of Catholic Personal Formation: An Integrative Model” - Weekly Reflection - April 1, 2024

True Peace

“Finding True Peace Through Humility, Gentleness, and Patience - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 79” - Be With The Word - July 22, 2021

True Self

“What Does It Mean to Be an Introvert? - Ascension - Episode 73” - Be With The Word - May 12, 2021

Trust

“Inner Pre-Evangelization: A Focus on Internal Trust” - Weekly Reflection - December 1, 2021

“Abraham and the Parasympathetic Nervous System - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Episode 65” - Be With The Word - February 23, 2021

“IIC 45: How Shame Leads Us to Idolatry” - Weekly Reflection - December 7, 2020

“Trust in the Lord With All Your Heart” - Weekly Reflection - November 19, 2020

“Heads I Win, Tails You Lose - 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 48” - Be With The Word - October 13, 2020

“IIC 33: Being Open and Coping Well” - Weekly Reflection - September 14, 2020

“IIC 32: Trauma, Trust, Treatment, and Truth” - Weekly Reflection - September 7, 2020

“See in 3D By Renewing Your Mind - 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 41” - Be With The Word - August 25, 2020

“Receiving Comfort From God - 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 33” - Be With The Word - June 30, 2020

“Developing a Firm Confidence in God - 3rd Sunday of Easter - Episode 23” - Be With The Word - April 21, 2020

“Letting Go of Self-Sufficiency - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 4” - Be With The Word - December 17, 2019

Trust in God

“God Heals Our Deepest Wounds - 4th Sunday of Lent - Episode 17” - Be With The Word - March 17, 2020

“Letting Go of Self-Sufficiency - 4th Sunday of Advent - Episode 4” - Be With The Word - December 17, 2019

Truth

“Six Reasons for Catholics To Not Tell the Whole Truth” - Weekly Reflection - May 25, 2022

“Seeking Truth vs. Not Lying” - Weekly Reflection - May 18, 2022

“Heads I Win, Tails You Lose - 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 48” - Be With The Word - October 13, 2020

Unburdening

“IIC 115: Unburdening in Internal Family Systems -- A Catholic Discussion” - Weekly Reflection - June 19, 2023

“IIC 114: Lifting Sexual Burdens: An IFS Demonstration with Drew Boa” - Weekly Reflection - June 5, 2023

“Unburdening Sexual Arousal (with Dr. Peter Malinoski)” - Guest Appearance - March 6, 2023

Uncertainty

“God's Ways are Not Our Ways - Easter Sunday - Episode 21” - Be With The Word - April 8, 2020

Unconscious

“Asking Mary to Reveal the Thoughts of our Hearts - Presentation of the Lord - Episode 10” - Be With The Word - January 28, 2020

Understanding

“Understanding Superiority Complexes - 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 49” - Be With The Word - October 20, 2020

Understanding Others

“IIC 72: What Keeps You from Loving? Is it Really Only Your Vices? (Spoiler Alert: No!)” - Weekly Reflection - June 14, 2021

Unity

“Choosing Unity Without Losing Integrity - 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 45” - Be With The Word - September 22, 2020

“Ending Psychological Power Struggles - Pentecost - Episode 28” - Be With The Word - May 26, 2020

“Listening Doesn't Equal Condoning - 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 9” - Be With The Word - January 21, 2020

Unmet Needs

“What Your Daydreams Tell You About Your Relationships” - Weekly Reflection - September 20, 2023

“Your Daydreams Reveal Your Secret, Unmet Needs” - Weekly Reflection - September 6, 2023

Unresolved Shame

“IIC 45: How Shame Leads Us to Idolatry” - Weekly Reflection - December 7, 2020

Unresolved Trauma

“IIC 95: Trauma's Devastating Impact on Our Capacity to Love” - Weekly Reflection - July 4, 2022

Virtue

“Finding True Peace Through Humility, Gentleness, and Patience - 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 79” - Be With The Word - July 22, 2021

“Some Things Can’t Wait Until The Last Minute - 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 51” - Be With The Word - November 3, 2020

Vision

“Psychological Barriers to Recognizing Jesus - 5th Sunday of Easter - Episode 25” - Be With The Word - May 5, 2020

Vocation

“IIC 59: Mystery, Covenant, Vocation, and Being "Submissive" in the Marriage Bed” - Weekly Reflection - March 15, 2021

“Discerning God’s Will After the Monastery” - Weekly Reflection - August 20, 2020

“Untangling God’s Love from Our Fallen Natures” - Weekly Reflection - August 13, 2020

“Is Discernment Ever Over? Answering the Call” - Weekly Reflection - July 9, 2020

“Overcoming Paralysis in Seeking God’s Will” - Weekly Reflection - May 7, 2020

Vulnerability

“IIC 37: The Silent Killer Who Stalks You From Inside” - Weekly Reflection - October 12, 2020

“Receiving Comfort From God - 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 33” - Be With The Word - June 30, 2020

Waiting

“Learning to Wait: The First Step to Overcoming Addiction - 1st Sunday of Advent - Episode 54” - Be With The Word - November 24, 2020

War

“Your Parts, IFS, and War in the Middle East” - Weekly Reflection - October 18, 2023

“Ukraine” - Weekly Reflection - March 2, 2022

Well-Being

“IIC 90: Your Well-Being: The Secular Experts Speak” - Weekly Reflection - March 7, 2022

“IIC 74: Internal Chaos and Blending vs. Internal Peace and Integration” - Weekly Reflection - June 28, 2021

Who We Are

“Discovering Who You Are” - Guest Appearance - January 30, 2020

Window of Tolerance

“Window of Tolerance - 3rd Sunday of Lent - Episode 66” - Be With The Word - March 3, 2021

Wisdom

“Some Things Can’t Wait Until The Last Minute - 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 51” - Be With The Word - November 3, 2020

Work

“Work is Not a Four-Lettered Word - 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Episode 44” - Be With The Word - September 15, 2020