Weekly Reflections
Human Formation in Purgatory? Yes, Indeed.
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, As we enter the final days of our liturgical year, the final days of November when autumn gives way to winter (at least for the 90% of us in the northern hemisphere – YMMV, Argentinians, South Africans, Australians and New Zealanders) we consider the eschatological themes, the four final things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. The readings for the daily Masses are focused on the ends of eras, the ends of kingdoms, the end of the world, and the second coming of our Lord. It is a time for us to pray for the dead, and to...
Your Tor-Mentors: God’s Gift to You at Thanksgiving
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Thanksgiving is again upon us -- the annual American holiday famous for family reunions, turkey feasts, televised football and backyard pick-up games, the Macy’s parade, afternoon naps and pumpkin pie. A day...
Review of The Crowded Room TV series with a Brief History of Multiple Personality Disorder and Ego State Therapy
Image titled Danny Sullivan by Obligated, used under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 License Review of The Crowded Room TV series with a Brief History of Multiple Personality Disorder and Ego State Therapy By Gerry Crete, Ph.D. Warning: This program contains...
Wholehearted Prayer in Humility
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, I so appreciate when our Resilient Catholics Community members reach out to me with their struggles, allow me to accompany them into their inner worlds and to be with them. Part of that “being with” involves...
Three Ways How Saints Have Done Wrong – With Serious Consequences
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Time for a confession: I hate most depictions of saints. I hate the plaster statues of saints with frozen fake smiles, perfectly unnatural skin tones and glassy eyes, standing immobile forever in their alcoves and...
Your Parts, IFS, and War in the Middle East
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Sometimes a week off just doesn’t pan out. I am back this week despite my planned break. My writer part couldn’t resist, and a self-led desire to share the fruits of my own interior work has inspired this week’s...
How to Help Your Parts Get Their Needs Met by Working with Daydreams
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, In last week’s reflection, The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams, we reviewed a structured way to discover our parts’ underlying unmet attachment and integrity needs which so often...
The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Last week’s reflection shed light on the deep interior work of St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose lengthy convalescence from a cannon ball wound grounded his temporal affairs and offered him an opportunity to re-evaluate...
Harnessing the Good in Daydreams with St. Ignatius
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, In the spring of 1521 at the battle of Pamplona, a prideful 30-year-old Ignatius of Loyola convinced his commanding officer to defend the city walls against a vastly superior force of more than 10,000 French...
What Your Daydreams Tell You About Your Relationships
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, In episode 120 of the Interior Integration for Catholics podcast, titled Understanding Narcissism More Deeply with IFS, I introduced you to four characters, two of whom were married – Thomas, who presents with overt...
Gently Approaching What Underlies Problematic Daydreams
Dear Souls and Hearts members, Over the past several weeks, we have journeyed together through a seriously Catholic exploration of daydreams from many different angles. Thank you for traveling with me. Let’s briefly review our course thus far: July...