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Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks!Many thanks to Ronnie Laughlin, breast cancer survivor and author of “An Atypical Journey: Facing Breast Cancer Alone in the Middle East with God and My Tribe.” She also wrote the companion guide, “My Appointment Notebook,” to help people navigate the health care system when challenged with a breast cancer diagnosis.  During our 30-minute conversation, we discussed how Ronnie handled the diagnosis of breast cancer, which she received while living alone in Saudi Arabia in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown. She toughed it out during her chemotherapy, employing the determination and resilience that made her a Division 1 basketball player years ago.  Her competitive nature and resolve were buttressed by strong Catholic Faith. Ronnie believes that her life experiences prior to her breast cancer diagnosis were God's “perfect preparation” that endowed her with the necessary skills to successfully navigate her illness.  Ronnie explained that she wrote her books to help other people with breast cancer better understand how it affects their bodies and provide strategies to succeed with treatment. Ronnie's advice to those affected by breast cancer or other life threatening illness? “Keep moving forward and keep a positive attitude.” You can find Ronnie Laughlin's books on Amazon.  For more information, check out her website: ronnielaughlin.comAnd social media:Instagram: @ronnielaughlinFacebook: V.ronnielaughlin.comauthorPlease click "Fanmail" and share your feedback!If you enjoy an episode, please share with friends and colleagues. "The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner" is now available on Alexa! Just say, "Play podcast The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner!" To never miss a program, subscribe at www.andrewwilner.com. You'll learn about new episodes and other interesting programs I host on Medscape.com, ReachMD.com, and RadioMD.com. Please rate and review each episode. To contact Dr. Wilner or to join the mailing list: www.andrewwilner.com To support this program: https://www.patreon.com/andrewwilner Finally, this production has been made possible in part by support from “The Art of Medicine's” wonderful sponsor, Locumstory.com, a resource where providers can get real, unbiased answers about locum tenens. If you are interested in locum tenens, or considering a new full-time position, please go to Locumstory.com. Or paste this link into your browser: ...

In this episode, you'll hear: The physical and emotional toll cancer takes The importance of mentors How to react intelligently instead of emotionally Tips to remember when going through tough times The role of gratitude, honesty, and resilience In this episode, Mathew and Ronnie sit down to discuss a remarkable journey of resilience and growth. Ronnie shares her experience as a Division 1 athlete and the mindset required for success, as well as the profound challenges of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis during the pandemic while living in the Middle East. Together, they explore how she approached cancer with intellect over emotion, embraced simplicity, and prioritized health through research, community support, and balanced habits. Ronnie also reflects on the pivotal role of faith in her recovery and how she now takes care of herself, embodying strength and perseverance.  Ronnie Laughlin is a breast cancer survivor, author, advocate, speaker, speech-language pathologist, and former Division I basketball player. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and faced treatment challenges living in the Middle East, far from her family. Drawing on her athletic determination, faith, and support from her "Tribe" of friends, she authored "An Atypical Journey: Facing Breast Cancer Alone in the Middle East with God and My Tribe," offering inspiration and guidance to others facing similar challenges. “We're always reinventing; and we're not the same person we were yesterday, and we don't know who we are going to be tomorrow.” “You have a setback for a comeback.” Follow the podcast:  Listen on Apple Podcasts (link: https://apple.co/3s1YH7h)  Listen on iHeart (link: https://ihr.fm/3MEY7FM)  Listen on Spotify (Link: https://spoti.fi/3yMmQCE)    Resources: Ronnie Laughlin Website An Atypical Journey: Facing Breast Cancer Alone in the Middle East with God and My Tribe by V Ronnie Laughlin LFPWLI: Umar Kankiya LFPWLI: Johann Hari LFPWLI: Ken Honda Jeddah Saudi Arabia Color Commentator    Connect with Mathew Blades:  Twitter - twitter.com/MathewBlades Instagram - instagram.com/MathewBladesmedia/  Facebook - facebook.com/mathewbladesmedia/  Website - learnfrompeoplewholivedit.com/   Additional Credits: LFPWLI is managed by Sam Robertson

The sisters are thrilled to talk with multi-grammy nominee Blessing Offor about Co-writes and publishing deals and what it means to be the 'genre of humanity' in this episode. Blessing is one of the kindest and most talented humans out there! Blessing Offor speaks to relatable experiences of struggle, triumph, life, and love from a distinctive perspective as a Nigerian-born, Connecticut-raised, and Nashville-based singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Exhibiting virtuosic piano ability, honest songwriting, and a showstopping voice, his musical fluency and creative foresight are unmatched only more inspiring by his journey.   With five older siblings, Blessing left Nigeria at just six-years-old to live with his uncle in Connecticut. Glaucoma left him blind in one eye, and mom and dad felt he might find better medical care in the United States. He lost sight in the other eye at ten-years-old due to a water pistol accident. Nevertheless, Blessing dove into music. He devoured classics by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Commodores and Barry White.  From a young age, Blessing had the natural ability to learn music by ear, developing incredible skill while quickly building his musical index.  Now, this international upbringing, unbelievable journey, quiet grind, and confluence of styles define his first full-length album, "My Tribe," that brings together soul, pop, R&B, and African styles in service of a universal sound--which he fittingly dubs "the genre of humanity." Listen to Blessing's new single "All Over the World" right here on the show and wherever you stream music and check him out here:  Website: Blessingoffor.com IG: @blessingoffor Facebook: Blessing Offor You Tube: Blessing Offor X: @Blessingoffor

Hiatus Open Admission!Women & Their Tattoos"Who Am I and Where's My Tribe?" Guest: Kristie FullerOriginal air date: 09/21/2023The first in multiple episodes of Women And Their Tattoos. Kristie Fuller returns to chat about her body art, being authentic, and finding our tribe.PLEASE NOTE: We discuss multiple topics and some may be distressing to listeners: discussion includes the subject of trauma.********Kristie Fuller is a practicing LMHC via telehealth for clients in Florida, by being her sweary genuine self: " I help people who are intimidated by stuffy, bored, tired, and traditional style therapy. It's just fuckin' therapy, right? Why can't it be more direct, more brash, real, down to earth, and genuine without all the bullshit?I specialize in working with adults who are ready to deepen their awareness of their internal landscape, so that they can understand who they are, what they are thinking and feeling, and how those interact to create behaviors.My practice is welcoming to everyone looking for someone who is dedicated to creating an environment that is inclusive, diverse, LGBT friendly, sex-positive and neurodivergent-affirming.  My clients enjoy working with me because I create a safe space for them to be truly their authentic self. "You can find Kristie here:Website  https://www.swearytherapy.com/Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/swearytherapy/Podcast - "If The Couch Could Speak" https://www.swearytherapy.com/podcast.html*** Support the Show.Want more sweary goodness? There's now the availability of Premium Subscription for $3 a month! Click the "Support The Show" link and find out more info.* * *F*ck The Rules Podcast is produced by Evil Bambina Productions, LLC. You can find our podcast on Amazon Music/Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and many more!***Social media/podcast episodes are not intended to replace therapy with a qualified mental health professional. All posts/episodes are for educational purposes only. If you are in need of assistance for mental health services, please check with your PCP, your insurance provider or an online therapist directory for the nearest mental health professional.*****Susan Roggendorf is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. In addition to hosting and producing her podcast, she's running a private practice as an independent provider full-time. Susan is a National Certified Counselor through the NBCC as well as an Emergency Responder & Public Safety Certified Clinician through NERPSC. When she's not busy with all those things, Susan is usually busy annoying her adult children or gardening.

Cub Kuker Supernatural Podcast EP421 Marduk is a significant deity in Mesopotamian mythology, specifically within the Babylonian and Assyrian traditions. He is often associated with the Anunnaki pantheon, although his prominence grew over time, especially during the Babylonian period. Here are key points about Marduk: 1. Role and Attributes: Marduk was the patron deity of the city of Babylon, and his rise to prominence parallels the ascent of Babylon as a major power in ancient Mesopotamia. He was associated with various aspects such as justice, victory, and wisdom. Marduk was often depicted as a dragon or serpent-like creature, symbolizing his power and authority. 2. Enuma Elish: Marduk's most famous mythological role is in the Babylonian creation epic known as the Enuma Elish. In this myth, Marduk is portrayed as the champion of the gods who defeats the chaos dragon Tiamat, thus establishing order and creating the cosmos from her body parts. This victory elevates Marduk to the position of supreme deity in the Babylonian pantheon. 3. Attributes and Titles: Marduk was attributed with various titles and attributes, reflecting his diverse roles and powers. He was often called Bel (meaning "lord"), a title that signifies his supreme authority. Marduk was also associated with the planet Jupiter, further linking him to celestial powers and cosmic order. 4. Following and Worship: Marduk's following was central to Babylonian religious practices. The city of Babylon held grand festivals and ceremonies in honor of Marduk, especially during the New Year's festival called Akitu. Priests and priestesses served in Marduk's temples, offering prayers, sacrifices, and rituals to ensure the well-being and prosperity of Babylon. 5. Legacy: Marduk's influence extended beyond the Babylonian period. When Babylon became a major cultural and political center in the ancient world, Marduk's cult and mythology spread to other regions influenced by Babylonian culture. In summary, Marduk is a prominent deity within the Anunnaki pantheon, known for his role in the Enuma Elish creation myth and his association with Babylonian power and authority. His attributes as a warrior, judge, and creator figure illustrate the complexities of ancient Mesopotamian religious beliefs and practices. This video represents my personal opinion but what do you think? Leave me a comment… _________________________________________

A few weeks ago, we got the chance to sit down with Blessing Offor for the first time. We had a great conversation about many of the songs on his album, My Tribe, and learned about the foundation he has setup in honor of his sister, Mercy.  Before we shared that chat, we reflected on the launch of our new signal in Chattanooga and prayed for the people of Baltimore after the Key Bridge collapse last night.  00:32 Welcome Chattanooga 02:50...

On this dark, frustrating, broken planet, I love bright Lights.  Listener, you are in for a treat!  Meet Gerald.  Was homeless, down and out and one of the most content people that I have ever met in my life!  Why do content?  Well, here you go...Thank you again Brother Gerald!  As we often say on this podcast, we are in the Hope and Encouragement business.  Getting Real.  Pursuing Truth.  Case in point, 1 Thes 5:11.  Avid listener, you know my favorite rhetorical questions.  Does this world need more Hope or hopelessness?  More Love or hate?  Jesus says Love is greatest of all.  Jesus speaks very highly of the poor and that for those that can to take care of them Matt 25:40.  So those that slam on Jesus, that is what you slam on.  And I know, some of you have been burned by hypocrites.  Many people that call themselves Christians aren't or they are not doing a very good job at the loving part...see Matt 22:36-40.  Cathy, Jade, Gerald, Jose, Linda, Matthew, Mike C, Z, Remmy, Gilbert, Gary, Jackie, Ryan, Kaite, Lori, Matthew, Patty and so many more that I could name.  The countless donors behind Overflowshowers.org, Spirit Filled Church Indio, Victory in Christ Church Indio, Templo Hermosa Coachella, Red Door La Quinta, Southwest Church Indian Wells, Martha's Kitchen Indio, Coachella Valley Rescue Mission, Our Lady of Gualdalupe Palm Springs, Ramona Tire Palm Desert, Dr. Vines, Nurse Peggy...and I'm just scratching the surface of Faithful servants and businesses striving to share Jesus and Hope and Love in the Coachella Valley of California.  As for you, if you complain about homelessness or California, speaking from personal experience that most likely means that is where God wants you to serve.  Too far?  Ok, how about then at least pick one of those organizations mentioned and donate.  Put your resources in motion that God has blessed you with to help address what concerns you the most.I love you.  God loves you way more. Just listen to Gerald.  He feels loved and shines Love...meanwhile others sit in their giant homes and contemplate their lives and wrestle depression.  Ironic indeed.  Ending on a song note, My Tribe by Blessing Offor, Gerald, Spirit Filled, Southwest and all those mentioned above our part of my tribe, your tribe too, if you so choose...give Blessing Offor some love, buy it, subscribe it, get KLove to play it!  

Who is more impressed with your stuff? Your family, your friends, You?  James tells us in Chapter 5 that our wealth has rotted, Moths have eaten our clothes and our money has corroded. There is nothing wrong with stuff, however what is the propose of that stuff. The question once again this week is, is that stuff God-centered or self-centered? Sean and Johnny continue the series "My Tribe" and look into the book James. This week they discuss the first 6 verses of Chapter 5. 

Did you realize that if you do NOT do what God wants you to do it is a SIN? It hard to imagine that if God puts on my heart to pray for you and I chose not to, I have just committed a sin. Join Sean and Johnny as they continue through the book of James in the series "My Tribe."

I'm Sapha, a cyberpunk Norwegian-Canadian science fiction author, poet & artist based out of Canada's West Coast. I teethed on images of the Berlin Wall falling down, and ever since I dream of taking a sledge hammer to the walls denying equality to women & the gender fluid. My Tribe of Beautiful Machines is my family, as I write about genetic engineering, magic realism, cosmology, artificial intelligence & exploratory gender dynamics. A gigantic geek & gamer girl, I stream on Twitch, chat on Discord and am in a perpetual state of odd lipstick colours & mirrored shades. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-lucas66/message

"Don't you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?" Join Sean and Johnny as they continue with the series "My Tribe" a closer look into the book of James. in this episode they will look at Chapter 4 verses 1-12.

Is your life a reflection of the wisdom you have received from God? A life that reflects humility, peace, gentleness, and a willing to yield to others. Sean and Johnny continues the conversation of the book of James, ending the third chapter, in this series called "My Tribe."

It is Refreshing to connect with My Tribe... This is the Audio of the video I recently found from over 2 years ago. I listened. Little did I know I would be listening to a narrative of myself and others situations/life over the past 2 years. I am in awe of The Divine. May this resonate for you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exodustofreedom/support

In the book of James beginning in the 2nd Chapter, James reminds us of the Royal Law, "Love your neighbor as yourself."  Pastor Johnny continues our new sermon series called "My Tribe" based on the book of James. In this message, "How You Treat Others" is based on James 2:1-13. Are we showing respect, Love and Mercy to our neighbor?

Practice! We are talking about Practice. James tells us we need to put into practice what we read.  Johnny and Sean continues the conversation in the series called "My Tribe" a look in the book of James. 

Temptation is something we deal with everyday. Join Johnny and Sean as they continue their series  "My Tribe" looking into the letter James wrote to the early followers of Christ. In this episode they cover Chapter 1 verses 12 - 21. 

Wisdom is a tool by which trials are overcome. Wisdom from God goes beyond common sense and when you ask God for wisdom, you are asking to be Christlike. Verse 6 is a great warning "But when you ask Him, be sure that your faith is in God alone." Sean and Johnny continue their conversation covering the book of James, Chapter 1 verses 5-12, in the new Series "My Tribe."

Pastor Johnny continues our new sermon series called 'My Tribe." This message is called, "Single Minded and Humble" is based on James Chapter 1 verses 5-11. 

Johnny and Sean kicks off a new series looking at a book written by the half brother of Jesus, who didn't believe that Jesus was who Jesus claimed to be until the resurrection.  This series is called "My Tribe" a letter from James to his tribe scattered around the world.

Pastor Johnny is kicking off a new sermon series based on the book of James called "My Tribe." The first message, "Strength of Character" is based on James 1:1-4. 

On today's episode, we chat with Blessing Offor! Blessing Offor speaks to relatable experiences of struggle, triumph, life, and love from a distinctive perspective as a Nigerian-born, Connecticut-raised, and Nashville-based singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Exhibiting virtuosic piano ability, honest songwriting, and a showstopping voice, his musical fluency and creative foresight are unmatched only made more inspiring by his journey. With five older siblings, Blessing left Nigeria at just six years old to live with his uncle in Connecticut. Glaucoma left him blind in one eye, and Mom and Dad felt he might find better medical care in the United States. He lost sight in the other eye at ten years old due to a water gun accident. Nevertheless, Blessing dove into music. He devoured classics by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Commodores, and Barry White. He was even allowed to listen to Eminem under one condition – “If I said any of the words, my uncle would take it away,” he laughs. From a young age, Blessing had the natural ability to learn music by ear, developing incredible skill while quickly building his musical index. “Seeing things differently—no pun intended—helps me elucidate concepts in ways people aren't used to,” he notes. “Everybody has a different filter and a place they come from. My place was, ‘Oh man, my vision is terrible.' It was frustrating early on, but it trained my ear.” Now, this international upbringing, unbelievable journey, quiet grind, and confluence of styles define his 2023 debut full-length album, My Tribe, that brings together soul, pop, R&B, and African styles in service of a universal sound—which he fittingly dubs “the genre of humanity.” “All of the elements on this record come together to make one whole human,” he observes. “We all have a little bit of spirituality, a little bit of pain, and a little bit of joy. These lyrics are my words from my life. Musically, there's a lot of who I am! Last but not least, I wasn't afraid to be honest. There are some heartbreak songs, and there are some more ambiguous songs. This is music for the world. This is music for every universal feeling we have regardless of who we are. Ultimately, I tried to make a life record.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christianmusicguys/support

Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DeepTempo Get the 140 zine https://deeptempo.co.uk/merch DJ Bookings helen@enki-agency.co.uk • EVENTS • 21/07 - XOYO, London https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/XOYO/Caspa--Back-2-The-Underground-Night-2/36344850/ • TRACKLIST • 3WA - I believe in you - Frozen Tapes Vol.1 Substance x MAC - How It Should Be - Conscious Wave Collective Teffa - My Own Blues - Infernal Sounds Pushloop - Neato - Heavy Traffic Recordings Yoofee - Make You Believe (K-Lone Remix) - Albion Collective 7Kidz - Shaker - Basskruit Sentient - Malpractitioner - Dub Colony Ekula x Zak Smiff - Murda! - Pollination SnipaZ - Voodoo Lady EP - Wake and Bake Records Coltcuts x Jumanji - Candle Fire - DUB Ynez - C43H66N12O12S2 (Oxytocin) - Bandcamp JFO - The Snake - TAREP003 Urban essence - Meridian - Bandcamp P0gman - Blow - Bandcamp • OUTRO • tcp - My Tribe https://dubsdigital.bandcamp.com/track/mytribe • DEEPTEMPO.CO.UK • Email Newsletter Sign Up: https://deeptempo.co.uk/newsletter Merch: https://deeptempo.co.uk/merch About us: http://deeptempo.co.uk/about • FOLLOW US • Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DeepTempo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/deeptempo140/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DeepTempo140/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/deeptempo140 Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/deeptempo140 • US TWO • Roving Dread - https://www.instagram.com/therovingdread Cuttah - https://www.instagram.com/cuttahdj#deeptempo #dubstep #podcast

06/ 20/2023Bruh Issa Murder  Track 3: The Murder Of of Marquise M. J. JacksonShow Notes: Bruh Issa Murder - The Murder of Marquise M. J. JacksonIntroduction:In this episode of Bruh Issa Murder, the gang Battle, Robert, K Money, and Andre discuss the tragic murder of Marquise M. Jackson, a black trans man who was widely loved by his community and known to be the life of the party. Jackson was an activist for trans rights and had served in the military. His death highlights the ongoing problem of violence against the trans community, mainly black and Latinx transgender people.Episode musical feature: "New Days," Jasmine J Walker Listen on Spotify: https://go-stream.link/sp-jasmine-j-walker.Links and Resources:Faith Ringgold's art and activism https://www.faithringgold.comSocial Media Handles and CTAs:Follow Bruh Issa Murder on Twitter and Instagram: @BruhissamurderLeave a review and subscribe to the podcast on your favorite platform.https://linktr.ee/BruhissamurderTimestamped Chapter Summary:Introduction to the case of Marquise M. J. Jackson (0:00:00)Importance of recognizing the struggles of the trans community (0:00:37)A brief overview of Jackson's background and achievements (0:03:10)Details of Jackson's murder and the circumstances surrounding it (0:03:56)Discussion of the problem of violence against the trans community (0:05:26)The difficulty of leaving a long-term partner (0:07:08Charles Mitchell, the owner of the property, becomes the focus of the investigation (0:07:41)Charges against Charles Mitchell (0:07:51Importance of taking action and becoming part of the governing body (0:12:51)Voting out politicians who do not support trans rights (0:13:43)The different ways individuals can contribute to activism (0:13:57)The power of art to convey political messages (0:19:00)Faith Ringgold's art and activism (0:20:02)Conclusion:The murder of Marquise M. J. Jackson highlights the ongoing problem of violence against the trans community, mainly black and Latinx transgender women. It is essential to recognize and address this issue to ensure the safety and well-being of all members of the LGBTQ+ community. The difficulty of leaving a long-term partner and the details of the investigation into Jackson's murder was discussed in this episode. The hosts also discussed the importance of taking action and becoming part of the governing body to make a real change. Follow Bruh Issa Murder on social media and subscribe to the podcast for more true crime cases of color and Music from up-and-coming artists.Additionally, the Gang discussed the importance of voting out politicians who do not support trans rights and how individuals can contribute to activism, including protesting, donating, and getting involved in local politics and community activism. The conversation also touched on the negative connotations associated with the term "woke" and the misuse of cancel culture to detract from holding people accountable. Finally, the power of art to convey political messages was highlighted, with the hosts recommending a specific piece by artist Faith Ringgold. Check out the show notes for links to her craft and activism.Other Music used:Track: "Race Against Time"Music provided by https://slip.streamFree Download / Stream: https://get.slip.stream/WF7yBvTrack: "Just Us," Ice FrozeMusic provided by https://slip.streamFree Download / Stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/b99d5745-e48d-4275-aaf4-f57923fdc9cb?utm_source=attributionTrack: "Phantom," by.YaoMusic provided by https://slip.streamFree Download / Stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/36e063c3-6610-49da-989d-163549d34964?utm_source=attributionTrack: "Peor", NormatikMusikMusic provided by https://slip.streamFree Download / Stream: https://get.slip.stream/RrFjbVListen on Spotify: https://go-stream.link/sp-normatikmusikTrack: "My Tribe 85", T-PainMusic provided by https://slip.streamFree Download / Stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/edab1b94-39bd-47d7-80f5-46b9e2e0a25a?utm_source=attributionSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bruh-issa-murder/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Pastor Jeffery's fourth talk from Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, ID, about the Critical Social Justice Movement. The post The New Racism: My Family, My Tribe, My Nation appeared first on All Saints Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth.

An artist whose eclectic sound has taken him from the streets of Baltimore to cities the world over, Life On Planets joins this episode of Dirtybird Radio. And to mark Black History Month, the singer/songwriter/producer is here to shine a light on some up-and-coming black talents in today's dance music scene. VR warm-up set:Quinten 909 & Bas Roos - "Djazz Tool" [Spacedisco Records]Yuu Udagawa - "Mojito" [Cyphon Recordings]Lubelski feat. Danke - "Satisfied (Nikki Nair Remix)" [Dirtybird Records]Kerri Chandler - "Back To The Raw" [Deeply Rooted House]Life On Planets guest set:My Tribe ft Dr Cornel West & Life on Planets - Brandon Lucas, AfriquaBlack Skin ft Stas THEE Boss - Bad Colours, Jarv DeePossibly Impossible ft Dave Giles II (Crackazat Remix) - Cor.eceExposed - Dj SmilesDippin - Errol BangzUnreleasedRaeCola - Bounce - RaeColaMagic ft Baby Sol - Coco & BreezyKarma (Mateyo Remix) - Life on PlanetsSomething (Byron The Aquarius Remix) - Rochelle JordanParalell Shifting - DJ HolographicIce Cream Cone (Skream Remix) - Lubelski & Claude Vonstroke ft Life on PlanetsColors - Monsieur Frazier, Micah SmithBrotha (Dazzle Drums Stomp Mix) - Life on Planets

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Summary:  In this episode, I invite you to explore and understand with me neuropsychiatrist Dr. Dan Siegel's Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) and what IPNB can show us about psychological health.  We review the triangle of well-being, the nature of secure attachments, and the basis for mental health from an IPNB perspective.  We examine the characteristics of a healthy mind and how it functions, and the two signs that reliable indicate all psychological symptoms and mental dysfunction.  We discuss the nine domains of integration, mindsight, and the healthy mind platter, and I share my exchange with Dr. Siegel about whether and how IPNB can be integrated with Catholicism.   Lead in:  Today I want to share with you an approach to understanding ourselves and guiding ourselves toward health that I am really excited about, that I think has great potential to help us in our human formation as Catholics. We are together in this great adventure, this podcast, Interior Integration for Catholics, we are journeying together, and I am honored to be able to spend this time with you.   I am Dr. Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist and passionate Catholic and together, we are taking on the tough topics that matter to you.   We bring the best of psychology and human formation and harmonize it with the perennial truths of the Catholic Faith.    Interior Integration for Catholics is part of our broader outreach, Souls and Hearts bringing the best of psychology and human formation grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person to you and the rest of the world through our website soulsandhearts.com  We are continuing our series on how the best of secular psychological approaches define mental health, psychological well-being.  We started with Episode 89 on Polyvagal Theory and covered Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems in Episode 90.   Today's episode, number 92 is entitled "Understanding and Healing your Mind through IPNB"  and it's released on April 4, 2022.  We are going to unpack what IPNB is, what is says about our human condition and I will share with you an exchange I recently had with neuropsychiatrist Dr. Dan Siegel, who brought this whole integrative framework into being, about whether IPNB can be reconciled with Catholicism.   Stay with me for a really interesting deep dive into this fascinating way of understanding ourselves and others.   Interpersonal Neurobiology or IPNB Let's start by understanding what IPNB is.  Interpersonal neurobiology.   Breaking down the name interpersonal neurobiology Inter = between us, among us -- implies relationship.  Relational model.  Not just between you and me, but also between you and you -- inner relationships within you, inner relationships within me.   Personal -- very relational.   Inter-personal and intrapersonal IPNB is all about the way my deep inner experiences connect with your inner experiences  Neurobiology -- not just the field of neurobiology, but all the branches of scientifically studying how human development takes place and how we can promote well-being in our lives.  Neurobiology brings in all the embodied, physical dimension of our existence.  Our bodies, our brains, our whole nervous system and all of our embodied biology being, that what the neurobiology part refers to  Interpersonal neuro-biology or IPNB -- works to be a wholistic approach to the human person.   IPNB was developed in the 1990s by neuropsychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel who brought together more than 40 professionals, more than 40 experts from a wide range of scientific disciplines to discuss and demonstrate how the mind, brain, and relationships integrate to influence and change each other.   Questions that IPNB asks and addresses these questions, five questions standing out to me: What is the human mind?  How does the mind develop?  What does the human mind look like when it's doing really, really well, when it's functioning optimally?  How can we encourage, nurture and cultivate a healthy, strong mind?  How can we take what we've learned about the mind and find practical applications that make a real difference in our daily lives?  Guidance for how to live our lives Pointers for what may need to change in our thinking and behavior to help us live more fully.   Very practical -- not just academic ivory-tower, pie-in-the-sky speculation -- Daniel Siegel really wants IPNB to bring healing, growth and well-being to people.  I like that.  I'm into that.  What IPNB is Not Not a therapy.  Not a way of doing therapy.  Rather, a way of understanding that can inform different schools of therapy.  IPNB is not a discipline.  It's not a specific branch of knowledge.  Rather, IPNB is a framework that draws on all the different disciplines with a rigorous and structured approach to studying things – not just science – They all have a place in the framework. It's a consilient framework:  Consilience:  E. O. Wilson  Assessing the universal findings discovered and recognized as real or true across fields and disciplines The fields contributing to IPNB Anthropology  Art  Biology (developmental, evolution, genetics, zoology)  Chemistry  Cognitive Science  Computer Science  Contemplative Traditions  Developmental Psychopathology  Liberal Arts  Linguistics   Neuroscience Affective  Cognitive  Developmental  social   Mathematics  Medicine  Mental Health  Music  Physics  Poetry  Psychiatry   Psychology Cognitive  developmental  Volutionary  Experimental  of religion  Social  attachment theory  memory   Sociology  Systems Theory (chaos and complexity theory)   All of these disciplines, all of these fields of inquiriy contribute to IPNB findings   IPNB also seeks a common language for these disciplines to be able to share and discuss about these big topics: What is the human mind?  How does the mind develop?  How can we make a healthy, strong mind?  How can we take what we've learned about the mind and find practical applications that make a real difference in our daily lives.   Thus IPNB is a going for the big picture.   IPNB emphasizes a need for humility and openness in the work.   Definition:  Interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB): a consilient field that embraces all branches of science and now other disciplined ways of understanding reality, such as contemplative traditions and a liberal arts, as it seeks the common universal findings across independent ways of knowing in order to expand our understanding of the mind and well-being. p.506 The Human Mind If we want a strong ordered mind, it helps to know what the mind actually is.  If we want mental well-being, it's really valuable to slow down and ask the question -- what is the human mind.   A central question for IPNB is "what is the human mind." The mind is rarely defined -- you know how important definitions are to me.  And the mind is often discussed but rarely defined.   Insert quotes about the importance of definitions Insert quotes about the mind.   When the mind is defined, most often defined as the output of the brain.  Problem of Hippocrates:  Our mind comes only from our brain echoed by the famous psychologist William James in his highly influential 1890 book "Principles of Psychology"   The mind is essentially just the product of the brain.  The activity of the brain generates the activity of the mind.  So the mind's activity is solely the product of the brain's activity.  American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate Roger Sperry  -- Mental process cannot be reduced to brain mechanisms.  Even if they are dependent on them, it doesn't make them the same.   Although the mind may depend on the activity of brain cells, the firing of neurons in the brain, the mind is not the same the same thing as the firing of neurons.  The mind is not the brain, and it's not just the products of nervous system activity.  According to Daniel Siegel and IPNB, the mind is a term that at a minimum includes what we're familiar with when we think of mind.   mental activity that includes Consciousness  emotions  Mood  Thinking  information processing  problem-solving  decision making  Memory  Narrative  meaning-making  Intention  Belief  Hope  Attitudes  Assumptions  Desire  Longing  Dreams  Our subjective feeling of being alive.   all of these are mental activities which are beautiful, powerful descriptions of what people mean when they say mind.  The mind constructs its own experience of reality. Critical point:  the mind emanates from the interactions within the brain -- so there's the neurobiology -- the brain, the nervous system, the body -- but the mind is not just the product of neurobiology -- there's also the interpersonal aspect -- the mind also radiates from our internal relationships within ourselves and our relationships with other people.  There's the interpersonal part of interpersonal neurobiology. The mind encompasses both the embodied brain and our relationships.    Definition of Mind  from p. 507 The Developing Mind, 3rd Edition. :   The mind is a process that includes at least four fundamental aspects: (1) personal, subjective experience; (2) awareness; (3) information processing; and (4) a regulatory function that is an emergent, self-organizing, embodied, and relational process of the extended nervous system and relationships.  This facet of a core aspect of mind offers a working definition of "mind" as an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information.  In this perspective, the brains activities an important part of mind, but mind is broader than the brain and bigger than the individual body. The mind is fully embodied and fully relational.   Let's break that down.  In IPNB, the mind is a process.  The mind is not so much a thing, as it is a process, the activity within us that regulates the flow of both energy and information through its neurocircuitry, which is then shared and regulated between people through engagement, connection, and communication. Facets of the Mind Personal, subjective Experience -- the felt texture of life  Awareness or consciousness   Information Processing -- and that information processing can be conscious or not The emergent, self-organizing, embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information – flow happens within (embodied) and between (relational).   If you don't understand all that in the first go-round, that's OK.  You don't need to understand it all, there's come complexity here.   The critical thing to remember about your mind for our purposes is that your mind can change your brain and be changed by your brain -- your mind can change your relationships and your mind can be changed by your relationships -- and your brain can also be changed by your relationships.     Our attachment relationships experiences shape the structures in the brain that correlate with key features of our inner and inter mind as we carry these neuroplastic changes forward in life – open to new growth and learning – as they continue to shape our internal world and our interpersonal lives across the lifespan. Secure, healthy relationships can heal your mind and your brain.  You can see this in the neuro-electrical firing xand neurochemical activity in the brain with neurotransmitters, and also in the anatomy of the brain. Raissa Miller in her 2016 Article titled Interpersonal Neurobiology: Applications for the Counseling Profession Finally, the mind can influence the brain and relationships. Consistent with characteristics of a complex system, the mind both emerges from and in turn influences the functioning of the brain and relationships. How one focuses attention affects neural structure and function. Furthermore, through processes not yet fully understood — perhaps through resonance circuitry or mirror neurons — the mental processes of one person can influence the mental processes of another person. The Triangle of Well-Being  -- Imagine a triangle with three vertices or corners.  One vertex is The Brain, a second vertex is the Mind, and the third vertex is Relationship.  So we have a triangle, and at the top, where the point is, we have relationship, and at another corner, we have brain and at the other corner we have mind.    The Mind -- we've been covering that: The Brain -- the embodied mechanism of energy and information flow  Definition:  Brain: here are viewed as the extended nervous system distributed throughout the entire body and intimately interwoven with the physiology of the body as a whole. It is the embodied neural mechanism that shapes the flow of energy and information. p. 502 Not just the grey matter inside our skull but our whole nervous system.    Justin Sonnenburg, Erica Sonnenburg on May 1, 2015 Scientific American Gut Feelings–the "Second Brain" in Our Gastrointestinal Systems .  The enteric nervous system is often referred to as our body's second brain. There are hundreds of million of neurons connecting the brain to the enteric nervous system, the part of the nervous system that is tasked with controlling the gastrointestinal system. This vast web of connections monitors the entire digestive tract from the esophagus to the anus. The enteric nervous system is so extensive that it can operate as an independent entity without input from our central nervous system, although they are in regular communication.   Energy and information flow is what the embodied brain is all about  Relationships -- the sharing of energy and information flow between people Energy and information flow between people  Energy and information are shared in relationships.   Integration – the differentiation and linkage of parts of a system – within the relationship is essential to understanding resonance, which is different from mirroring or giving up your individual needs and sense of differentiation  PART model of verbal and nonverbal relationships -- Presence, Attunement, Resonance, and Trust.   Presence:  Openness; awareness of present moment experience:   Presence is the portal to integration; an open, receptive awareness of the unfolding of moment-to-moment experience the opposite of presence is unintentional mind-wandering Attunement:  Focus of attention on the internal world of self or other Internal Attunement:  Focusing of attention on my internal world  Interpersonal Attunement:  Focusing of attention on the internal world of another  if a parent is attuned to the child's mind, much better outcome than if just reacting to the child's behavior.   Mirror neurons may be activated in attunement   Resonance:  Being shaped by another  Next step -- interpersonal attunement allows for two individuals to resonate with one another, A deeper sense of connection, of being with each other.   To feel felt by one another.   As the two are resonating, feeling felt by one another, joined in relationship they are still separate.  They are not fused, there is no loss of individual identity.  You are still you when you are in relationship with me, and I am still me.  This is really important, that the individual, differentiated nature of each person is not lost.  Two tuning forks, at the same frequency.   Trust:  A deep sense of openness and reliability States of safety vs. states of  threat  Trust creates a sense of receptivity  Social engagement system is turned on Integration allows us to differentiate streams of energy, freeing us from default-mode processing dominating our experience in the moment New ways of thinking, imagining, considering  Allows our faculty of imagination to develop.   Connection refers to a process of mutual resonance occurring between two individuals, leading to attunement and a sense of we  Ruptures are inevitable in relationships, and they can be thought of as opportunities for repair and the deepening of connection   Four critical concepts in IPNB:  Empathy, compassion, kindness and forgiveness  Empathy has many facets, including feeling the feelings of another, perspective-taking, and cognitive understanding Empathy: the capacity to make a map of another's mental state that includes at least the five functions of  emotional resonance perspective taking empathic understanding empathic joy, and  empathic concern.  For most individuals, empathy is a requirement for compassion. Integration enables empathic connection to be harnessed without losing differentiation and fusing with another's experience.  p.504   Compassion: The way in which we perceive the suffering of another, imagine how to help, and then take action to alleviate the suffering Compassion: the capacity to sense suffering, to imagine what might be done to reduce that suffering, and to take effective action for that purpose. Compassion can be directed towards one's inner experience – sometimes called "self-compassion" – as well as toward others in what is sometimes called "other-directed" compassion. These two directions in the flow of compassion can be called "inner compassion" and "inter compassion." p. 503   Kindness: Acting with no expectation of getting something in return; honoring and supporting one another's vulnerabilities -- sounds a lot like the Christian concept of charity; others may think of this as altruism  Forgiveness can be thought of as giving up all hope for a better past; acceptance of what was.   The brain, the mind, and relationships are all critical elements of the triangle of well-being.   Secure attachments  Siegel in "The Developing Mind," 3rd Ed.  p. 225:  Attachment at its core is based on parental sensitivity and responsivity to the child's signals, which allow for collaborative parents-child communication. Contingent communication gives rise to secure attachment and is characterized by a collaborative give-and-take of signals between the members of the pair. Contingent communication relies on the alignment of internal experiences, or states of mind, between the child and caregiver. This mutually sharing, mutually influencing set of interactions – this emotional attunement or mental state residents – is the essence of healthy, secure attachment.  Neural networks are activated and shaped by these relational experiences Our relational experiences reshape not only our minds but our brains.   The four Ss of building a secure attachment:  Feeling Seen, Safe, Soothed, and Secure Seen   I feel that my needs are being accurately perceived by the other My mind is seen beneath my behavior Safe I feel protected from harm, from danger  The other person is not a source of fear   Soothed I can be reliably comforted and calmed by the other in times of stress  Ruptures are readily repaired   Secure I am able to explore my environment  I can go back to the other as a safe base    What is the basis for health or mental well-being  -- the integration of the mind.   Daniel Siegel proposes that integration of the mind is the basis for health.   I made this argument way back in episode 15 of this podcast, long before I was all that familiar with IPNB.   Supported by more than 20 years of research now.  Raisa Miller helps us break this down.  Mental Well-Being Mental well-being, from an IPNB perspective, is defined in terms of integration.  Functionally distinct components within the complex mind system differentiate (i.e., specialize) Each component has a unique role in the system.    and then link with other components of the system to form a greater whole -- but you don't blend them.    The metaphor of a fruit salad versus a fruit smoothie is often used to illustrate integration.  Each ingredient in a fruit salad maintains its unique quality (differentiating)  while also combining (linking) to make a new, more complex dish (an “integrated” fruit salad). Optimal organization depends on linking differentiated parts of the system (integration) you do not have the differences among those parts disappear (not homogenization).  Coherence instead.  Integration is defined as the linkage of differentiated elements. The mind's process of linking differentiated parts (distinct modes of information processing) into a functional whole is postulated to be the fundamental mechanism of both. Without integration, chaos, rigidity, or both ensue. Integration is both a process and a structural dimension, and can be examined, for example, in the functional and anatomic studies of the nervous system. p. 506 Considerable evidence indicates that the mind is the self-organizing, emergent embodied relational process that utilizes the differentiation and linkage of aspects of the system the mind is in. When that goes well – health arises.  When it goes poorly, chaos or rigidity or both rise up.   When a system is not optimally self-organizing, it veers toward  Rigidity -- everything seems predictable  Dorsal vagal shutdown, the freezing and numbing out state like in dissociation we discussed this in Episode 89 on polyvagal theory  This leads to rigidity   Examples  Extreme example would be hysterical paralysis Another example --  a deep, major depression Chaos -- everything seems completely unpredictable  PTSD symptoms Flashbacks  Nightmares   Panic attacks   Or both -- e.g. bipolar disorder Depressive episode -- rigidity.   Manic episode -- chaos Daniel Siegel:  Every symptom of every disorder of the DSM-5 can be framed in terms of chaos or rigidity "Human suffering can be summed up in chaos and rigidity."   Health is found in the internal integration, where there is neither chaos nor rigidity.   When you improve self-organization within a system leading to harmony and integration, including the mind, you find five qualities.  Acronym FACES Optimal Self organization involves the integration of elements of the system leading to harmony described as a FACES flow  Individuals operating at greater levels of integration are more open to possibilities and flexible in response to their natural proclivities -- this is described as a FACES flow.   FACES flow your mind is: Flexible -- your mind can think outside the box, be innovative and come up with new and original ideas and solutions to problems, your mind can be imaginative, and creative.  Flexible  Adaptive -- your mind can adjust to new situations, change course as needed, roll with the punches and handle the various challenges and demands that life throws at you.   Coherent -- your mind stays clear, lucid, orderly inside, and you have the full use of your intellect and reason.  You can think logically and sensibly  Energized -- your mind is alert, active, dynamic, and animated, with stamina and vitality  Stable -- your mind is balanced, calm, steady and you have a sense of being solidly grounded and secure.   Nine domains of integration list them.   Consciousness – differentiating the knowing from the knowns of what we are aware of. Knowns and unknowns Awareness of the body, mental/emotional, relational, and outside world. Openness to things as they are    Bilateral – the differentiated functions of the left and right hemispheres.  Left hemisphere is logical and linear, very literal, verbal Right side is more creative, metaphoric, and symbolic, nonlinear, intuitive, nonverbal Vertical – linking the body's signals and the lower neural regions of the brainstem and limbic area to the higher cortical regions. Gut, heart, and lungs all have neural networks that seek to communicate with the brain. Too many people are disconnected from the awareness from our bodies.  Memory – linking the differentiated elements of implicit memory to the autobiographical and factual experience of explicit memory. Implicit and explicit memory integration.  When traumas become implicit memory, a schema, we are stuck in the past.  To integrate memory, we make implicit memories explicit and weave them into our narrative, the story of our lives in a coherent and meaningful way   Narrative – making sense of memory and experience such that one finds meaning in events that have occurred. State – respecting the differentiated states of mind that make up the wide array of clusters of memory, thought, behavior, and action that are the nature of our multi-layered selves. we are multiple selves sharing a body. Three parts: We need to learn to honor our states (intrastate), interstate, honor that we have different needs at the same time and we need to pay attention to that, and interpersonal states, maintaing my own states while in relation with others.    In IFS language, these states are somewhat analogous to parts.   Interpersonal – honoring one another's inner experience and linking in respectful communication. -- involves nurturing.  Not fusing, being separate but near, being with.    Temporal – the capacity to represent ‘time' or change in life and reflect on this ‘passage of time' (e.g. life versus death). Making maps of time. Connected to narrative - we seek certainty, but change is the only constant. We also become aware of our eventual death.  Identity – the sense of agency and coherence potentially associated with feelings of belonging. The identity of a bodily self expands beyond the boundary of the skin - we sense our interconnection time, place, and people. Integration of integration   Mindsight  Mindsight-the ability to see the internal world of self and others  p. 54 Mindsight is likely to be essential and healthy relationships of many kinds  Mindsight permits integrative communication in which individuals are honored for their differences and compassionate connections are cultivated that link one mind to another  Daniel Siegel proposes that interpersonal integration promotes the growth of integrative fibers in the brain. The neural circuits linking differentiating areas to one another are the regulatory and social circuits of the brain. 54   Three Components of Mindsight -- insight, empathy and integration.  Insight: Reflecting with awareness by focusing attention on the internal, subjective world of one's own interior mental experience, including feelings, thoughts, memories Empathy: Sensing the inner experience of another within one's own mind; forming a mental map of another; feeling felt by an empathic other is the foundation of a supportive relationship Integration: The differentiation or specialization, and, ultimately, linkage of systems including the brain and interpersonal relationships; without integration, chaos, rigidity, or both emerge, resulting in a state of mental dysfunction; with integration, harmony emerges with flexibility, adaptability, coherence, stability, and energy (a FACES flow) Mindsight:  the ability to see the internal world of self and others, not just to observe behavior. It is the way we not only sense but also shape energy and information flow within the triangle of mind, brain, and relationships and move that flow toward integration. Using mindsight, integration made visible is kindness and compassion. p.506 Integration made visible is kindness, compassion, and well-being How do we get there.  Lots of recommendations from IPNB.  Lots of models and acronym. Can check out Dr. Dan Siegel's website at https://drdansiegel.com/   Lots of resources there if IPNB resonates with you.  Books and courses and blogs and videos and all kinds of things, most of it free, and he's a very good speaker and teacher.  He's done a lot to help parents raise very young children, informed by the science of IPNB and to help parents and their adolescent children understand and connect with each other.   Wheel of awareness -- A reflective practice that integrates consciousness using the metaphor of a wheel in which the hub represents the knowing of being aware and the room contains the elements of the knowns, from the first five senses to mental activity such as emotions, thoughts, and memory. p.511 other resources  I'm going to focus on one resource today, one of many resources Healthy Mind Platter I'm going to focus on one particular element.  Healthy Mind Platter  In 2011, the USDA change from a food pyramid (nearly two decades) to a food plate.  Inspired David Rock and Daniel Siegel to design the "Healthy Mind Platter"   The Healthy Mind Platter has seven daily essential mental activities necessary for optimum mental health.  These seven daily activities make up the full set of “mental nutrients” that your brain and relationships need to function at their best.  By engaging every day in each of these servings, you promote integration in your life and enable your brain to coordinate and balance its activities. These essential mental activities strengthen your brain's internal connections and your connections with other people and the world around you. We're not suggesting specific amounts of time for this recipe for a healthy mind, as each individual is different, and our needs change over time too.  The point is to become aware of the full spectrum of essential mental activities, and as with essential nutrients, make sure that at least every day we are bringing the right ingredients into our mental diet, even if for just a bit of time.  List of the Health Mind Platter elements: Sleep Time  Physical Time  Downtime  Focused Time  Playtime  Time in  Connecting Time  (repeat)   Components of the Health Mind platter -- drawing from various sources by Dan Seigel and also a video by Marie Holowaychuk  Psychotherapy Networker article The Heathy Mind Platter May 2020  Sleep Time When we give the brain the rest it needs, we consolidate learning and recover from the experiences of the day.  This is important for lots of reasons, especially because sleep directly affects inflammation in the brain. It's also critical because when we get seven to nine hours of quality sleep, the toxins secreted by active neurons during our waking hours are cleaned up. Without enough sleep, we're likely to have increased brain inflammation and decreased ability to focus, remember, stabilize our mood, and even process calories  memory consolidation and processing, learning and task integration, emotional regulation and positivity, insight, creativity and problem-solving   Physical Time  When we move our bodies, aerobically if medically possible, we strengthen the brain in many ways. It's easy to become a couch potato when we're spending so much time in front of screens, so we need this time when we really focus on moving our body. Therapists can consider doing this in between sessions or even with clients. Helps to maintain brain health and plasticity increases learning and memory improves cognitive and executive functions enables us to focus in spite of distractions benefits of reducing stress, anxiety, and depression Downtime When we are non-focused, without any specific goal, and let our mind wander or simply relax, we help the brain recharge.  This is space to not do anything specific and just chill out. Our minds need this. As opposed to moments when we find ourselves unintentionally getting distracted, down time involves intentionally letting our minds wander. This might include watching a show or listening to music, drawing on a pad of paper, or simply playing with water in the sink as you do the dishes.  we let our mind simply wander or relax  downtime allows our brains to recharge permits integration of previous thoughts and experiences  we get a generation of new insights because it enables integration across the left and right hemispheres  struggle with a complex problem, but when you start feeling anxious or stressed or hit the wall, distract yourself from with from the problem by doing something completely unrelated  sudden insight often follows   Focus Time: When we closely focus on tasks in a goal-oriented way, we take on challenges that make deep connections in the brain.  This is time spent focusing on something external with discipline, like reading a book. Say to yourself, “For this half hour, I'm not going to be distracted by the news or anything else.” Research suggests that when we focus our attention like this, we release a number of substances, including BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), which enhance brain growth. When we have a singular focus of attention, we learn more, remember more, and enjoy the experience more.  Paying close attention to some project  you're not multitasking, instead you are focusing in a goal oriented way, thinking efficiently and effectively you're not getting distracted by all sorts of other things, phone and email alerts are off.   Really focusing attention on just one thing a time Can come with a feeling of success, of mastery because you were able to really accomplish something, to do something new.  Focus time gets the brain to secrete to chemicals to allow the neurons which are firing to strengthen their connections to one another. This helps your attention and concentration -- helps develop your prefrontal cortex and your sharpens and clarifies your mind.   Cal Newport's Book Deep Work taught me so much about this component of the healthy mind platter -- and others as well.  Highly recommended, with very practical tips that have helped me a lot in producing this podcast.    Playtime When we allow ourselves to be spontaneous or creative, playfully enjoying novel experiences, we help make new connections in the brain.  This doesn't refer to sports but to doing something that allows you to laugh and be spontaneous—without judgments or feeling that there's a right or wrong way to do it. The notion here is to engage in an activity, perhaps with others, in which the enjoyment and creative unfolding of the moment is the focus. Too often adults lose this sense of playfulness. To cope with this pandemic, we need to keep our humor and our vitality alive and well!  this can be thought of being playful of letting novelty failure experience that letting you be spontaneous often with a sense of humor and the light. Children do this naturally, adolescents less so, and in adulthood we get very serious so it's important to have playtime. Because when you allow the brain to make these new combinations and create a sense of safety and a willingness to expand which are used to doing to expand beyond the familiar. This is a playfulness actually keeps the brain young and keeps the connections in the brain growing. That's playtime.  Forget all about work and other commitments, and be social in an unstructured way flexible emotional responses to unexpected events.  Practicing spontaneous and novel motor and social skills, facilitates learning creativity and memory  stimulates dopamine release, which helps to establish new neuronal pathways in the brain  game night with friends or coworkers, going outside to build a snowman, adult coloring books   Time in When we quietly reflect internally, focusing on sensations, images, feelings and thoughts, we help to better integrate the brain.  This is time you may already spend engaged in a formal mindfulness practice, like yoga or meditation. Inward reflection can include the three pillars of focusing attention, opening awareness, and cultivating kind intention.  This is when we are able to quietly able to reflect internally  focusing on sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts in the present moment  focusing on acceptance of the process, rather than the content  balance of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems  improved attention and more flexible Prospectives about life  better control emotions and stress  improving compassion and empathy towards our self and others   Connecting Time When we connect with other people, ideally in person, and when we take time to appreciate our connection to the natural world around us, we activate and reinforce the brain's relational circuitry  This is time you put into intentionally connecting with people, even if you can't be in their immediate physical presence. This relational time involves communicating not only with other people, but also with nature. Finding time to connect with people and the planet can help with the sense of isolation we may feel these days.  When we are able to connect with other people, ideally in person  taking time to appreciate our connections to the world around us  improves relational circuitry in the brain, and benefits the cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems  a buffering effect in on stress by helping us to have a positive outlook, form secure attachments, and have efficient restorative behaviors in times of stress  make time to connect with others, especially your spouse, your partner, family, and friends  plan outings, date nights, or activities into your weekly routine, to make sure that your personal connections are maintained   Review of components Sleep Time  Physical Time  Downtime  Focused Time  Playtime  Time in  Connecting Time   How to connect Interpersonal Neurobiology with Catholicism?  Harmonizing. I'm in a six-month intensive course with Dan Siegel, it is his Comprehensive Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) Course and as part of that course, we have Q&A sessions.  I was really interested in how open the IPNB model might be to Catholicism -- I wanted his thoughts on that.   Remember that IPNB draws from so many disciplines, and not just scientific ones, but any discipline with a rigorous approach to learning, including the liberal arts, poetry, and even contemplative traditions.  And I like Dan Siegel -- he is very approachable, open, receptive, and I have a deep sense that he has a big heart, a lot of concern for our human condition, a genuine compassion for his neighbor.  Not just an academic sense.    So I asked Dr. Siegel.  I sent him this question:   Q. How does the integrative, multidisciplinary framework of IPNB, which draws from the findings of so many fields, consider the wisdom (based on divine revelation) that revealed religions (i.e., Judaism, Christianity, Islam) claim to offer about human well-being to their followers – or is that way of “knowing” considered “unscientific” or “not rigorous” and therefore not invited into the IPNB framework? Re-read it  And he responded --  A: Thank you for the question, Peter. Initially, IPNB was created through the weaving of western-based academic disciplines from math and physics to biology and psychology to sociology and anthropology. It began with an effort to ask, what is the mind and how are mind and brain related to one another? As the notion of consilience later became clear, the approach broadened to include any disciplined way of understanding the nature of reality. For that reason, systematic “disciplined” ways of exploring reality, questioning what emerges, and then re-considering what is found in an attempt to build a broad framework for understanding includes the ancient wisdom traditions of Indigenous knowledge and contemplative insights. In meeting with religious leaders from the faiths you have mentioned, the plane-of-possibility view as the “generator of diversity” seems to fit with the deepest aspects of their teachings, part of what Aldous Huxley and Huston Smith might have referred to as perennial wisdom. I have also met with some teachers, not leaders, but local teachers, in various faiths who say their view is the only true view, and that to try to find a consilience across ways of knowing, from various religions and from science, is an assault on their unique and privileged “knowing of what the truth is.” In this case, that mental stance of absolute belief in the veracity of their perspective is not a part of a consilient mindset, and so it is difficult to see how, though their views would be welcomed to be examined, not just accepted because the individual believes them to be true, people with such a viewpoint would xcollaborate in looking for common ground. I hope this response makes sense. Reread the bolded part.  I thought his response was gracious and I appreciate Dan Siegel's directness and honesty.  I was not surprised by the content.  The way I interpret this is that there's not room in IPNB from Dan Siegel's point of view for one to be Catholic and participate in the search for common ground.  No revealed religion's tenets could be included because they are not open to being challenged, questioned and discarded if they don't seem to line up with the findings of the other disciplines.  That's one of his non-negotiable principles for IPNB.  So his consilient framework doesn't draw from all available knowledge.  So Dan Siegel and I disagree about epistemology -- how you know things.   For him, divine revelation is not a valid source of knowing that can inform IPNB.  For me, it divine revelation is not only essential, it's the starting point.  It's the reference point, like the North Star.  And that's likely to lead to disagreements between Dan Seigel and me about metaphysics.  But I don't ignore the valuable work of DNA discoverers James Watson and Francis Crick who described the beauty of the double helix structure of DNA--  I don't ignore their work or discount it  because both Watson and Crick displayed intense anti-Catholic bigotry.  So I'm certainly not going to ignore the really valuable work of Dan Siegel in IPNB -- let's draw the good from it. And I've not seen anything that condemns or criticizes Catholicism from Dan Siegel.  He's not Catholic, I don't expect him to embrace the Church's teaching.  Let's not be afraid of the work of IPNB and other secular approaches, let's conform it to what we already know to be true by faith.   So the upshot of all this is, for those that really want to ground human formation and psychology in a Catholic understanding of the human person, for us Catholics to not only be Catholic with a capital C, but also with a small c.  "catholic" meaning universal.  We find the good in all these secular approaches and harmonize it with our faith.  Not the other way around.  And there is no tension between authentic science and the Faith. CCC Paragraph 159:  "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth." "Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are." That's what I am here to help you do.  To take the best of secular approaches to science, like IPNB and ground them in an authentic Catholic understanding of  the human person.  That's what I am all about, that is what this podcast Interior Integration for Catholics is all about that is what Souls and Hearts is all about. I accept the authority of the Catholic Church to teach definitively in the areas of faith and morals.  That's my starting point.  I hold those truths to be indeed true.  I am open to the possibility and the potential that I have for misunderstanding those truths.  I have misunderstood some of them before, and I may well be misunderstanding some of them now.  But one main reason for divine revelation is to show us those truths that we could never have figured out using the light of natural reason alone.  I really do believe that the reason our Lord came when he did in human history is because the Greeks had gotten about as far as natural reason would take them in philosophy and the Romans had gotten about as far as natural reason would take them in law.   So my mission, my calling is to bring you the best of psychological and human formation resources firmly rooted in a Catholic anthropology.   This is entirely consistent with the teaching of the Church as expressed in Vatican II, in paragraph 62 of The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: "in pastoral care, sufficient you should be made, not only of theological principles, but also of the findings of secular sciences, especially psychology and sociology; in this way the faithful will be brought to a purer and more mature living of the faith"   Closing Really excited about next month's episode -- Episode 93, coming out on May 1, 2022, where I will be offering you three experiential exercises that integrate what we've been learning in episode 89 on polyvagal theory, episode 90 on Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems and this current episode, 92 on Interpersonal Neurobiology -- all these secular approaches, I'm going to be drawing from them in these experiential exercises to really help you know yourself better, understand your needs, find where you may have internal disconnects, and also get some direction on what the next steps are.  So look for that on Monday, May 1, new episodes come out the first Monday of the month.   Weekly emails -- been doing a whole series on enemies, lots of surprising things on enemies.   Check out our Litanies of the Heart -- really excited to just have released these.  The last Episode 92 was all about the Litany of the Closed Heart, the Litany of the Fearful Heart and the Litany of the Wounded Heart.  So much great feedback.  Soulsandhearts.com/lit.   Conversation Hours You are a listener to this podcast, and in that sense, you are with me.  I am also with you!  Remember, can call me on my cell any Tuesday or Thursday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time for our regular conversation hours.  I've set that time aside for you.  317.567.9594.  (repeat) or email me at crisis@soulsandhearts.com.  If you really like this podcast, if you are finding it to be of great benefit to you -- consider the Resilient Catholics Community.  Waiting list is open for The Resilient Catholics Community at Soulsandhearts.com/rcc for our June 2022  So much information there and videos.  I want to invite you to the Resilient Catholics Community The Why of the RCC --  It's all about loving with your whole heart -- all of your being.  Getting over all the natural level issues that hold you back from tolerating being loved and from loving God and others.   Who  Who is the Resilient Catholics Community for? It's for you. If you really are into this podcast, if these ways of conceptualizing the human person and integration and human formation and resilience are appealing to you, then the Resilient Catholics community, the RCC may be for you.   I am looking for listeners who want to be with other like-minded Catholics on the journey, on this adventure of human formation with me.   Who deeply desire a personal, intimate relationship with God and with Mary, a real human, close connection  And who recognize they have some natural-level impediments to that deep relating  and  who are willing to make sacrifices in time, effort, money, humility and courage to grow in human formation and overcome natural-level impediments to being loved and to loving  What want to shore up their natural foundation for the spiritual life, because grace perfects nature.   Who want to become saints.   Who are willing to be pioneers at the cutting edge in this adventure of human formation.  Really at the tip of the spear, the first explorers of this human formation ground for laymen and laywomen.   First of all the RCC is My Tribe, my people, bringing together two groups into one First, faithful, orthodox, serious Catholics who are wounded and suffering and know it  And Second, who are psychologically minded (or at least want to be psychologically minded), who believe in the unconscious and who embrace the unity and multiplicity of the human person  And who want to see through the lens of a core self and parts.  Unity and multiplicity make sense.   Go to Soulsandhearts.com/rcc and register for the June wait list.  I'd like to journey with you.    Patron and Patroness

Greatness isn't a skill. It's a choice.  Your growth determines your future and not the other way around. You must be comfortable being UN-comfortable. What makes you happy? Wake up and Live. Take responsibility for your life and step in as the main character of your life. Love my podcast? Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! IG:  @HICOACHJOJO(screenshot this episode and tag me)MY CREATIVE OUTLET --->IG:@JOJO.EMPOWERSYOUTUBE: JOANNACORPUZ  --->*My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

There are a number of mutual aid support groups to assist in one's recovery. One pathway is through Recovery Dharma (https://recoverydharma.org/). In this episode, we sat with a local expert, Ian Mitchell, and asked him what to expect when going to a Recovery Dharma meeting. Disclaimer: Views and opinions of our hosts/guest speakers on Pack N Recovery, are not of those at the University of Nevada, Reno. This episode features the song “My Tribe” by Ketsa, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license and “Jazz in the Park w/Tea” by Jennifer Miller used with license through Universal Production Music.

If you feel like you're over giving from an empty cup, you're not alone. Putting self-care into practice is probably the hardest "self-care" commitments  you'll make. Tune in and get the proper push you need to set those boundaries so that you can PROPERLY fill your cup. You got this! Have a great week.Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

I discuss how your mind influences the direction of you life and how you can reprogram your thoughts for a better day. You get to decide what thoughts you want to keep entertaining OR simply watch it to pass and fade away. Search for those powerful affirmations and get used to OWNING IT. You got this! Have a great week. Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

It's time to enjoy our present "enough-ness". You are blessed as you are now. You already have come a long way, my friend. Your phone, the electronics, all the distractions. Can wait. Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

Self care is not just about bubble baths and treating yourself here and there. It goes deeper. Deeper to the point where no matter what, you love yourself soo deeply and soo completely that you continue to get up for yourself knowing you're learning and growing from all that you  surround yourself and hold yourself accountable to achievable goals that makes you feel more of a badass. Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

"You only live one life, do not miss your chance to blow." -Eminem Did you see the super bowl half time show ? It was LIT AF.  If you didn't have time to see it; its total good energy, body chills, pumping goodness. Save this episode in case you need to re-listen to this all week. I get it. The more you can remind yourself and be mindful of where you're headed and WHY you're doing it. The better you can stay consistent and on track with your whole life or at least better than yesterday. Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance!

38 years of a brotherhood.  Nick has always carried me on his shoulders.  It's about time I had him on My Tribe!

Time is flying. How can you make your week easier and less stressful this week? Time to get back into this school/work week grind! I'm getting back into my routine after a long but quick month. I'm finally getting back in the flow of things and life feels soo good at the moment. Open  your mind and get in touch with the things/activities/projects/goals/intentions you might want to set for yourself this month to Take control and have an awesome rest of your year!Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance!

Time to check in with yourself, what do you need more of this week?Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance!

Can your mindset really impact your life?  Is mindset really just about thinking positively to our way of success ? Learn how you can use your mind to work for you instead of against you. Happy New year, beautiful soul. My episodes will now be uploaded on Mondays! Referring to it as-- "MINDSET MONDAY'S" .  Subscribe so you don't miss any of the future episodes.Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance!

START. START NOW. START HERE. You already have what it takes !Stay tuned for * my mental note * Have A Happy New Year *Leave all of 2021's shit behind and go into 2022 Stronger, Lighter than ever! My episodes will now be uploaded on Mondays! Referring to it as-- "MINDSET MONDAY'S" . Subscribe so you don't miss any of the future episodes.Help grow the show by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

LET GO of that big, heavy bag of regrets, grudges, hurt, bitterness, past mistakes. How long have you been carrying this bag? Are you ready to finally let that bag go? Feel a HUGE weight lifted off your shoulders/chest.. This is your permission slip to bring peace into your life. Bring Joy. Bring Compassion & understanding. Feel free to share this podcast to any friends who need more love and light.-xoxo, JOJOHelp grow the show by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

Take action. Move differently. Choose different. Enjoy the Present. Practice non-attachment. Staying committed to things you say you're going to do. Most IMPORTANTLY, learning to be patient & strong through those times where it feels hard and unreachable. YOU GOT THIS. Feel free to share this podcast to any friends who need more love and light.-xoxo, JOJOHelp grow the show by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

Are you feeling lonely, sad, unmotivated, burnt out---during the holidays? You are not alone. I am here to guide you through those uneasy feelings and how to overcome them. Feel free to share this podcast to any friends who need more love and light.-xoxo, JOJOHelp grow the show by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

Summary: In this episode, we explore the conventional secular and the traditional spiritual ways of understanding scrupulosity, bringing in the experts to define scrupulosity, tells us the signs of being scrupulous, speculate on the causes of the trouble, discuss that standard remedies in the secular and spiritual realms.  Then I share with you my views on it, looking at scrupulosity through an Internal Family Systems lens, grounded in a Catholic worldview.   We discuss how parts have different God images and the role of shame and anger in the experience of scrupulosity.    Description of Scrupulosity Suddenly my stomach tightens up, there's a choking in my throat, and my torture begins. The bad thoughts come. . . . I want to drive them out, but they keep coming back. . . . It is terrible to be in a struggle like this! To have a head that goes around and around without my being able to stop it; to be a madman and still quite rational, for all that. . . . I am double. . . . at the very time that I am trying to plan what I want to do, another unwanted thought is in my mind. . . . Distracting me and always hindering me from doing what I want to do.  --  Quoted in Albert Barbaste, “Scrupulosity and the Present Data of Psychiatry,” TheologyDigest, 1.3 (Autumn 1953) 182. Fr. William Doyle: Around 1900  “My confessions were bad. My confessor does not understand me, he is mistaken in me, not believing that I could be so wicked. I have never had contrition. I am constantly committing sins against faith, against purity. I blaspheme interiorly. I rashly judge, even priests. The oftener I receive Holy Communion, the worse I become,”  Around 1900 My story just turned 19 -- terrible bout of scrupulosity.   Around sexuality Just started dating the first woman I might consider marrying Physical touching -- romantic contact How far was too far? Thoughts of sex with her -- plagued me.   Do I break up with her?  How do I handle this?  What was sinful, what was not?  Was I on the road to hell?  Was I putting her on the road to hell?  I thought I was going crazy.   Review: I encourage you to review the last episode, number 86 -- Obsessions, Compulsions, OCD and IFS That episode went deep into obsessions and compulsions and  serves as a basis for today's episode.   Today's episode, number 87 is entitled Scrupulosity:  When OCD Gets Religion and it's released on December 6, 2021, St. Nick's Day.  I am Dr. Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist and passionate Catholic and together, we are taking on the tough topics that matter to you.   We bring the best of psychology and human formation and harmonize it with the perennial truths of the Catholic Faith.    Interior Integration for Catholics is part of our broader outreach, Souls and Hearts bringing the best of psychology grounded in a Catholic worldview to you and the rest of the world through our website soulsandhearts.com Overview Start out with definitions of scrupulosity both from spiritual and secular sources, really want to wrap our minds around what scrupulosity is and the different types of scrupulosity. We will discuss the connection between scrupulosity and OCD -- discussion of OCD  We will then move to the signs of scrupulosity -- how can you tell when there is scrupulosity?  Then we will get into the internal experience of scrupulosity.  What is it like to experience intense scruples?  Had a taste in the intro, but we will get much more into that.   We will discuss what religious and secular experts have to say about the causes of scrupulosity  Then what religious and secular experts have to say about the treatment of scrupulosity -- that most recommended therapy approach and the medications typically prescribed.   After we've discussed the conventional secular and spiritual approaches to treating scrupulosity, I will how I think about scrupulosity, the root causes of scrupulosity, and how scrupulosity develops and how it can be treated.  I will give you an alternative view, grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person and informed by Internal Family Systems thinking.   Definitions:  You know how important definitions are to me.  We really want to make sure we understand what we are talking about.   Scruple comes from the Latin word  scrupulum,  "small, sharp stone" -- like walking with a stone in your shoe. Ancient Roman weight of 1/24 of an ounce or 1.3 grams.     Something tiny, but that can cause a lot of discomfort.   Definitions from Spiritual Sources Fr. William Doyle, SJ.  Scruples and their Treatment  1897: Scrupulosity, in general, is an ill-founded fear of committing sin.  Fr. Hugh O'Donnell:   Scrupulosity may be defined as a habitual state of mind that, because of an unreasonable fear of sin, inclines a person to judge certain thoughts or actions sinful when they aren't or that they are more gravely wrong than they really are… Scrupulosity involves an emotional condition that interferes with the proper working of the mind and produces a judgement not in accordance with object truth, but with the emotion of fear.  Fr. James Jackson, article "On Scrupulosity"  A very good definition Scrupulosity is an emotional condition, an ultra-sensitivity to sin, which produces excessive anxiety and fear from the thought of eternal damnation…This condition is a religious, moral and psychological state of anxiety, fear and indecision. It is coupled with extreme guilt, depression and fear of punishment from God. However, each person who suffers from it does so uniquely. Fr. Marc Foley:  The Context of Holiness: Psychological and Spiritual Reflections on the Life of St. Therese of Lisieux Excellent, very psychologically informed study of the Little Flower  Not only the best psychological profile of St. Therese of Lisieux, but the best psychobiography of any saint from any author I've read.  A very in-depth look at her mother, St. Zelie as well and the limitations and lack of attunement in the Martin family  Highly recommended reading -- all of chapter 12 is on The Little Flower's scrupulosity.   Scrupulosity is an extremely painful anxiety disorder. It consists of annoying fear that one is offended God or could offend God at any moment and that God will cast her into hell. To protect yourself from eternal damnation, the scrupulous person dissects every thought, motive, and action in order to ascertain if she has send. And since she is deathly afraid that she might have sent, the scrupulous person seeks absolute certitude that she hasn't send in order to assuage her fears.   Definitions from Secular Sources Timothy Sisemore, Catherine Barton, Mary Keeley From Richmont Graduate University   Scrupulosity is a "sin phobia."  Jaimie Eckert, Scrupulosity Coach:  Scrupulosity is where faith and OCD collide.   International OCD Foundation Fact Sheet:  What is Scrupulosity?  By C. Alec Pollard:  A form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) involving religious or moral obsessions. Scrupulous individuals are overly concerned that something they thought or did might be a sin or other violation of religious or moral doctrine.   Bridging the Secular and the Spiritual Joseph W. Ciarrocchi's The Doubting Disease: Help for Scrupulosity and Religious Compulsions -- published in 1995, and still the most cited text in Catholic circles, even more than a quarter century later.   Dr. Ciarrocchi, a former Catholic priest, trained as a clinical psychologist and served as professor and chairman of pastoral counseling at Loyola University in Maryland prior to his death in 2010. Scrupulosity refers to seeing sin where there is none.   He viewed scrupulosity as a sub-set of obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD), basically a kind of “religious OCD.”  He distinguishes  developmental scrupulosity  self-limited form of scrupulosity  often occurring in adolescents  or shortly after a conversion experience (e.g. St. Ignatius of Loyola)  Temporary, usually disappears.   emotional scrupulosity -- symptoms of OCD More enduring conditions  Can vary in intensity over time, from being overwhelming to just mildly irritating  Can last for years.    Core experience of scrupulosity:  "an intrusive idea, often associated with a sinful impulse, which the person abhors but cannot shake."  "The French label the emotional condition which is sometimes part of scrupulosity "the doubting disease."  Signs of Scrupulosity What do we see.  A lot we don't see.  Fr. Thomas Santa, past director of Scrupulous Anonymous and Author of the book Understanding Scrupulosity When people struggle with the scrupulous disorder, most of the suffering, fear, and anxiety they experience happens in isolation. Scrupulosity is mostly an interior struggle, seldom manifesting itself with easily identifiable or observable mannerisms or behaviors. You can't tell if people are scrupulous by looking at them. While some compulsions of obsessive-compulsive disorder are identifiable, most of the suffering associated with the disorder is personal. Only the sufferer fully knows its debilitating nature.   Sources IOCDF Fact Sheet  Jaimie Eckert Scrupulosity Coach  The Gateway institute website  Doubting Disease 1995 by Joseph Ciarrocchi   Obsessions -- excessive concerns about Fears of Blaspheming, accusing God of being negligent or abusive or evil, cursing God  Fears of Sacrilege, abusing our Lord in the Eucharist for example  Fears about impulses -- taking one's clothes off in Church, screaming obscenities during Mass Example of the man concerned about touching his infant daughter's genitals  Sexual thoughts about a romantic partner  Sexual thoughts or images about a religious figure -- Jesus, Mary, a saint, or possibly a priest or religious.   Fears around harming others  I might cause the death of someone if I sneeze or cough during Mass --  I coughed.  Maybe I'm sick.  Maybe I have COVID.  Maybe I'm a spreader.  A pharmacist worries she will fill prescriptions incorrectly and poison customers at her pharmacy.   Fears around aggression -- Driver goes over a bump in the Church parking lot in the dark after the parish council meeting.  Is concerned he may have run over the pastor.   Cooperating in the sins of others "Man participates in a discussion about a historical figure dead for more than 1000 years, who is alleged to have been a homosexual.  He worries that he has committed the sin of detraction." -- Example from Joseph Ciarrocchi.   Being a sinful person, dishonest, lacking integrity -- honesty  Ruminating about past mistakes, errors, past sins  Purity -- looking for moral perfection  Not Loving Others enough -- Mother worrying she doesn't love her children enough.  Going to hell  Death  A loss of impulse control   Cyclical Doubts Often about salvation, selling your soul to the devil, in mortal sin   Intrusive thoughts and images 666, Satan, Hell, pornographic images, etc.   Compulsions  Behavioral Compulsions Excessive trips to confession  Repeatedly seeking reassurance from religious leaders and loved ones  Repeated cleansing and purifying rituals  Acts of self-sacrifice  Repetitive religious behaviors  Avoiding situations (for example, religious services) in which they believe a religious or moral error would be especially likely or cause something bad to happen  Avoiding certain objects or locations because of fears they may be sinful   Mental Compulsions Excessive praying (sometimes with an emphasis on the prayer needing to be  perfect)  I compulsions about praying.  Tithing prayer.  1.6 hours vs. 2.4 hours.   Needing to pray perfectly or at least adequately enough.   Repeatedly imagining sacred images or phrases Repeating passages from sacred scriptures in one's head Making pacts with God to avoid hell or buy time or just to get a little relief in the present moment.   Intense sense of guilt-- feeling guilty all the time -- about things that don't carry moral weight.    Inflated sense of responsibility Not distinguishing between thoughts and actions.   Example: Joseph Ciarrocchi The Smith family traditionally joins hands around the dinner table to give thanks in prayer before the meal. Susie, age 4, and Billy, age 6 sometimes are fidgety (and always hungry). Mrs. Smith worries that Susie, Billy, and perhaps herself haven't not “truly prayed” due to the multiple distractions: Susie is scratching her mosquito bite, Billy is leering at the chocolate pudding, and Mrs. Smith remembers she has a school board meeting after dinner. She doubts that their prayers were “heard,” and so request of the family repeat their prayers. Sometimes she makes the whole family repeat them, and sometimes only the children. Once the children needed to repeat them four times, even the Mr. Smith tried to intervene after the second time. Mrs. Smith sought advice from her pastor who urged her not to repeat the prayers, either for herself or the children. When she attempts to follow this advice, however, her entire meal is ruined as she attempts to sort out in her head whether this is acceptable to God. She will continue to worry about it throughout the rest of the evening, including her school board meeting.   Distinguishing Scrupulosity of normal religious practice IOCDF Fact Sheet:  Unlike normal religious practice, scrupulous behavior usually exceeds or disregards religious law and may focus excessively on one trivial area of religious practice while other, more important areas may be completely ignored. The behavior of scrupulous individuals is typically inconsistent with that of the rest of the faith community.     Internal Experience of Scrupulosity  Plutarch: a first century priest for the Greek god Apollo at the Temple at Delphi. He wrote about the so-called “superstitious” man, who… And so is the soul of the superstitious man. He turns pale under his crown of flowers, is terrified while he sacrifices, prays with a faltering voice, scatters incense with trembling hands, and all in all proves how mistaken was the saying of Pythagoras that we are at our best when approaching the gods. For that is the time when the superstitious are most miserable and most woebegone....   OCD Center of Los Angeles:  One of the first documented references to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) was in a 1691 sermon by Anglican Bishop John Moore of Norwich in which he discussed men and women who were overwhelmed with unwanted thoughts, and tormented by feelings of guilt and shame over what he described as “religious melancholy.” Priests had started to notice that some churchgoers were attending confession several times a day, and repeatedly confessing to the same sins and shortcomings that they feared would result in divine judgment and eternal damnation. Their penance and absolution would provide only a fleeting glimpse of peace, and then their fears would come roaring back. William Van Ornum, A Thousand frightening fantasies: understanding and human scrupulosity in obsessive-compulsive disorder 1997 24-year-old computer programmer writes, “what worries me is that at any moment and in only a few seconds I can commit serious sin. The only remedy is confession. I worry about what I've done until I confess it; then it's all over. The problem is that I fall or worry again and need to go back.” Fr. Thomas Santa:   Being possessed by a thousand frightening fantasies Constructing a spider web in the mind. People with the disorder often feel as if they are isolated in darkness. They describe this feeling as a “cloud” that perpetually engulfs them. They feel the disorder constantly and uncomfortably, even in the background of day-to-day living.  Scrupulosity demands constant attention and can feel like a severe and unrelenting master. At best, most people who suffer with the disorder have learned to live with it. They hope it does not get more pronounced or spill into other areas of life. Relief does not exist, so any promises of relief through activities like rituals are essentially dead ends. For those who are religious, consistent spiritual practices can help and at the same time be debilitating. From Joseph Ciarrocchi's Book "Doubting Disease Bob is 28-year-old married Jewish man who works for an accounting firm. He is thrilled with the birth of his first child, a bubbly infant girl. Bob is about to be totally involved with her as a parent and share in all aspects of childcare. He was shocked by the following experience: Bob was changing his daughter's diaper when the thought, idea, or image (he wasn't quite sure which close parentheses flashed through his mind – “Touch her private parts.” The first time it happened he shuddered, tried to dismiss the idea, and hurriedly completed diapering her. All they tried not to think about it. The next time he changed her diaper, however, the idea came back, but this time in the form of a graphic picture of Bob engaging in the dreaded behavior. This time he felt nausea, became dizzy, and called his wife to finish, saying he thought he was ill and would pass out. The idea began to torment Bob. He found himself not wanting to be alone with his daughter, Les T “give in” to the simples. He refused to bathe her or change her diaper. Sensing something was drastically wrong his wife urged him to seek help. He talked to his rabbi who tried to assure him that he was not a child molester and should dismiss the thoughts.  Psychodynamic perspective  Sources Nancy McWilliams Psychoanalytic Diagnosis --  Psychdynamic Diagnostic manual   Thinking and Doing predominate over Feeling, sensing, intuiting, listening, playing, daydreaming, enjoying the creative arts and other modes that are less rationally driven or instrumental  Hold themselves to very high standards, sometimes impossibly high.   Central conflict: Rage and being controlled vs. fear of being condemned or punished.   Cooperation and rebellion Initiative and sloth Cleanliness and slovenliness Order and disorder Thrift and improvidence  Polarizations inside.   Emotion is unformulated, muted suppressed, unavailable, or rationalized and moralized.  Except anxiety and sometimes depressed mood Consign most feelings to an undervalued role, associated with childishness, weakness, loss of control, disorganization and dirt Cognition Condemning oneself for internal thought crimes -- consciously or unconsciously   Body states Hyperarousal -- expressing anxiety through the body  Often health problems due to excessive washing   Difficulties with  Play Humor  Spontaneity Pain about isolation.   Shame about being considered weird and unacceptable to others Capable of loving attachments, but often not able to express their tender selves without anxiety and shame Relational patterns -- seek relationships in which they can control the partner, sometimes partners who can reassure them  Being intimate in relationships Emotional connection  Sexuality   Causes of Scrupulosity  Spiritual Sources  Fr. James Jackson The Fathers of the Church considered scrupulosity – or psychasthenia, as the Greek Fathers called it – to be a spiritual problem which leads to a psychological malfunction.   Timothy A. Sisemore. Catherine Barton, Mary Keeley -- The History and Contextual Treatment of Scrupulous OCD  15th and 16th Century -- connected scruples to moral reasoning, addressed under conscience -- concept of erroneous conscience.  -- frees the person to act without resolving the doubt.   Secular Sources IOCDF Fact sheet:  The exact cause of scrupulosity is not known. Like other forms of OCD, scrupulosity may be the result of several factors including genetic and environmental influences.   OCDUK.com  Lots of controversy. Biological factors  Strep infections affecting the Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders associated with Streptococcal Infection  -- PANDAS   Genetic factors Runs in families -- 2001 metaanalytic review reported that person with OCD is 4 times more likely to have another family member with OCD than a person who does not have the disorder   Cognitive theory  Everyone experiences intrusive thoughts at times People with OCD have an inflated sense of responsibility and interpret these thoughts as very significant and important Caught up in a pattern of Try to resist, block or neutralize them  What is the meaning of the thought to the person?   Joseph Ciarrocchi citing David Barlow -- OCD causes Those temperamentally disposed to having high levels of nervous energy, more pronounced bodily reactions to stress, greater levels of anxiety   OCD is different from other anxiety disorders because those with OCD believe that certain kinds of thoughts are dangerous in themselves If I think certain thoughts those events will happen.  If I think certain thoughts or spontaneously imagine certain things, or if I have an impulse to do such a  thing, then I am the kind of person who would do such things.   No moral distance between the spontaneous thought or image or impulse and actually doing the act.   I must be bad.  Unclean.  Unworthy.   Model for the development of Scrupulosity Strong belief that certain thoughts are dangerous and unacceptable  Leads to the occurrence of these same intrusive thoughts  This generates significant anxiety  Leading to strong efforts to suppress the thoughts  Which accelerates the frequency of the same kinds of thought   Leading to a need to "turn off" the anxiety by any means Mental rituals  Physical rituals  These rituals are the compulsions   And then there is a temporary respite, a bit of relief.  The compulsive rituals are reinforced because they temporarily decrease anxiety.  But then we loopback to the occurrence of the intrusive thoughts again.     Psychodynamic understanding Nancy McWilliams -- Psychoanalytic Diagnosis Obsessive and Compulsive Personality styles:   Marc Foley's Approach in The Context of Holiness about St. Therese of Lisieux's scrupulosity Parental figures who set high standards of behavior and expect early conformity to them E.g. making little kids sit still during Mass   Strict and consistent in rewarding good behavior and punishing malfeasance Risk of condemning not only behaviors but the feelings that go with them Especially anger   Issues of control in families of origin.   Alternative -- a really lax family in which children are underparented Child concludes he has to model himself after a parental figure that he invents himself  Child might have an aggressive, intense temperament -- projected on to that idealized parental figure.   Self esteem comes from meeting the demands of internalized parental figures who hold them to a high standard of behavior and sometimes thought.   Value self-control over nearly all other virtues.   Discipline Order Loyalty Integrity Reliability Perseverance Is a particular religion a cause?   No: Timothy Sisemore, Catherine Barton, Mary Keeley:  A tendency to blame religion, but no more than counting OCD to be blamed on math class  Joseph Ciarrocchi "Religion doesn't cause scrupulosity and more than teach someone French history causes him to believe he is Napoleon.  All human beings exist in some cultural context.   IOCDF Fact sheet:  Scrupulosity is an equal opportunity disorder. It can affect individuals from a variety of different faith traditions. Although more research is needed to truly answer this question, there is currently no evidence to link scrupulosity to a specific religion. OCD Center of Lost Angeles It is worth noting that Scrupulosity is not partial to any one religion, but rather custom fits its message of doubt to the specific beliefs and practices of the sufferer.  Yes:  Joseph Ciarrocchi …religion may contribute when its content is presented in an overly harsh, punitive manner.  Students of such presentations are likely to associate the context of the religious message with fear and anxiety.   Jonathan Edwards, 18th Century Pastor and Theologian in the Congregational Church The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship. Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell.   Heresies from Fr. James Jackson: Manicheanism:  Manichaeism states, on principle, that all matter is evil. If, for example, a child grows up with an extreme attitude to modesty – where the flesh is seen as evil because it is the cause of forbidden impulses – then the slightest catering to the demands or needs of the flesh can result in a torment which rejects the goodness of the body.  Pelagianism:  There was once a British monk named Pelagius, who taught that a man can observe God's laws by human effort alone, that grace was not needed to do so. If the heresy of Pelagianism works its way into the soul it is an easy step to thinking that any lack of perfection is entirely one's own fault. One thinks, “this business of salvation is my work, so I'd better be perfect when I …” Thus salvation becomes something one must achieve by personal effort instead of by cooperation with grace.   Jansenism:  Jansenism is another heresy in which scrupulosity can grow well. It emphasizes that Christ did not die for all, stresses man's sinfulness, and requires extreme penances on a regular basis. It leads to infrequent communions and flowers into scrupulosity as a matter of course. Jansenism flourished within Roman Catholicism primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but was condemned as heresy by Pope Innocent X in 1653. Jansenism was also condemned in 1713 by Pope Clement XI in his famous Bull Unigenitus.  Jansenism focuses on how it was impossible for men and women to obey the Lord's commandments and to be redeemed without God's special, divine, irresistible grace. Jansenism taught that Christ died only for the elect -- a real sense of predestination  Fr. Marc Foley agrees:  Jansenism identified as the "remote cause: of St. Therese of Lisieux's troubles growing up.   Biographer Conrad de Meester: "Zelie's mother, who taught her daughters an excessive fear of offending God, used to harp on the phrase 'that's a sin' to curb the least imperfections."   Zelie had an excessive fear of sin and hell. Zelie was terrified that her five-year-old daughter Helene was in purgatory or perhaps even in hell, because she once told a lie.   Spiritual Means of Recovery Joseph Ciarrocchi “Scruples in the History of Pastoral Care” (chapter four of the Doubting Disease) puts scrupulosity in the context of church history before it was viewed through the modern lens of psychiatric diagnosis.  He describes several principles for the treatment of scruples from the pastoral care tradition. Act contrary to the scruples.   Follow the example of others without lengthy and burdensome moral reasoning.  Rely on the guidance of one spiritual advisor rather than consulting multiple spiritual authorities.  Put oneself in situations that trigger the obsessional thought.  Avoid religious rituals/prayers, which serve as compulsions.   Ciarrocchi writes that these main pastoral principles “contain  the seeds of modern behavioral treatments” that include modeling by  others,  exposure to the upsetting situation, and blocking the compulsive response. Fr. William Doyle 1873-1917 -- more than 100 years ago.   General Remedies from Fr. William Doyle Prayer -- pray in temptation  Vigilance  Struggle against depression -- sadness increases scrupulosity   Obedience to an experienced confessor -- perfect, trustful and blind obedience Obedience of action putting into practice the freedom of conscience  Obedience of understanding -- soul remaining in revolt and persisting in its own erroneous ideas. Vanquishing errors of the intellect.   Generosity in Self-Conquest -- acts of self-denial   Particular remedies from Fr. William Doyle 19th century Doubts must be ignored  Belief in the easiness of forgiveness  Presuming decisions (of the spiritual director)  Lenient view of one's faults -- magnifying glass  Promptness in acting on decisions  Broad-minded interpretation of advice -- broadening the way.   Not piling up questions   Ten Commandments for the Scrupulous -- Fr. Thomas Santa, CSsR (2013) Without exception, you shall not confess sins you have already confessed.  You shall confess only sins that are clear and certain.  You shall not repeat your penance or any of the words of your penance after confession—for any reason.  You shall not worry about breaking your pre-Communion fast unless you put food and drink in your mouth and swallow as a meal  You shall not worry about powerful and vivid thoughts, desires, and imaginings involving sex and religion unless you deliberately generate them for the purpose of offending God  You shall not worry about powerful and intense feelings, including sexual feelings or emotional outbursts, unless you deliberately generate them to offend God.  You shall obey your confessor when he tells you never to repeat a general confession of sins already confessed to him or another confessor.  When you doubt your obligation to do or not do something, you will see your doubt as proof that there is no obligation  When you are doubtful, you shall assume that the act of commission or omission you're in doubt about is not sinful, and you shall proceed without dread of sin   You shall put your total trust in Jesus Christ, knowing he loves you as only God can and that he will never allow you to lose your soul Pastoral approach here.  Predestination for heaven, Jesus will make us go to heaven.  A lot of scrupulous clients are well enough formed to not believe that.   Secular means of recovery IOCDF:  Scrupulosity responds to the same treatments as those used with other forms of OCD.  Cognitive behavior therapy featuring a procedure called “exposure and response prevention” is the primary psychological treatment for scrupulosity. A certain kind of medicines called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) is the primary drug treatment for OCD. Treatment for scrupulosity may also include consultation from  leaders of the patient's faith tradition.  Exposure and Response prevention See the last Episode   Difficulties with ERP for scrupulosity. Joseph Ciarrocchi "Doubting Disease":  My opinion, based on the clinical and theoretical aspects of scruples, is that scruples are resistant to change because their religious nature places many of them in the domain of overvalued ideas. In other words, the person sees the stakes are so high in religious doubts (i.e. salvation depends and being correct) that the senselessness of the behavior is less evidence. After all, faith itself implies looking beyond sensory experiences in the surface meaning of reality. Scrupulous people usually know that their peers do not act the way they do. But since religious salvation is such an individual experience, can one really take a chance and ignore that's “inner voice”? Therefore, the religious aspects of scruples create a motivational drive around the symptoms which become overvalued ideas, and hence resistant to change.  Jaimie Eckert Scrupulosity Coach:  ERP can feel like it has deep moral and spiritual implications. Although it is a method that is helping you develop a normal spirituality, it can feel terribly frightening. For example, the woman who prays compulsively, repeating her prayers dozens of times until she feels they are done “right,” might be asked to pray only once and then stop, no matter how she feels. This can easily feel like a denial of faith. So scrupulous sufferers begin dropping out of treatment when ERP gets more intense.  Kevin Foss, Founder of the California OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center in Fullerton, CA:   People suffering with Religious Scrupulosity struggle with the ERP process because they fear that exposure therapy will result in a genuine sin, convey that they are OK with sin and that they do not respect God or God's will. Furthermore, Scrupulosity sufferers are generally knowledgeable of their faith's doctrine and Biblical texts, so they are quick to present chapter and verse explaining why they should avoid exposure and give in to compulsive acts. Despite my reminders of clients' logical arguments, they respond with “But you never know” and “But what if God mistakes my intention in the exposure and I'm now really guilty of sin?” So, to do anything that could potentially put that into question or undermine it was experienced as possibly damaging the practice of faith, challenging one's fundamental belief in God, or leaving one vulnerable to shifting beliefs and a slippery slope into sin. Psychodynamic approaches for treating OCD but can be applied to scrupulosity.  McWilliams  Ordinary kindness -- they know they are exasperating for reasons that are unclear to everybody Priests get frustrated.   Parents get frustrated   Do not hurry them, advise them, criticize them.   Avoid becoming the equivalent of the controlling, demanding parent -- no power struggles  But still relate warmly.  A lot of acceptance.   Avoid intellectualization  Help them express anger.   Discover their emotions and help them enjoy them.   Joseph Ciarrocchi. Doubting Disease Treatment program is laid out in his book, Doubting disease.  It is essentially exposure and response prevention.   Target the scruples you want to change Identify your obsessional scruples through self-monitoring.  Write them down.   Identify you compulsive scruples -- write them down.  Avoidance acts to reduce anxiety  Record the circumstances surrounding the scruples  Making ratings of the intensity of the anxiety triggered by each of the obsessions and compulsions.   Record the amount of time spent worrying about the scruples  Lots of forms and charts, all in the book.   Increase your Motivation to Change Looking at how motivated you are, and where you are in Prochaska and Di Clemente's stages of motivation to change.   Developing a Personal Motivation Plan Listing the Benefits of eliminating scruples  Listing the Costs of not changing scruples   Preparing for Change Setting up the plan for repeated exposure to the feared object or condition.   From the very start of the fear response, the body actually starts a counter-response mean to return the body to normal activity levels. Habituation.  Nervous system gets bored with the danger, returns to normal.   Example of jackhammer breaking up the asphalt on your road.   Exposure must be prolonged Exposure must generate significant anxiety Exposure must be repeated The compulsive response must be blocked.  Prevented from happening so it breaks the cycle of some relief from the compulsion.  Blocking the physical compulsion or the mental compulsion.   More charts and forms What I think about scrupulosity.  IFS-Informed Approach  I'm going to start with the bottom line.  I think scrupulosity is generated by a desperate attempt to find safety from a terrible, dangerous and uncaring God for shameful, undeserving, despicable sinner Scrupulosity is a twisted, frantic attempt to find some kind of safety from an angry, heartless God for me, a reprobate, a delinquent, an evildoer.  At the core, scrupulosity starts with really appalling, awful God Images -- and the scrupulous person usually isn't aware of the how terrible his or her God images really are, because they are not allowed into conscious awareness.   I discuss God images at length in episode 23-29 of this podcast, a seven episode series, all about God images, so check that out.   God Images =  My emotional and subjective experiences of God, who I feel God to be in the moment.  May or may not correspond to who God really is.  What I feel about God in my bones. This is my experiential sense how my feelings and how my heart interpret God. God images are often outside of our conscious awareness  Initially God images are shaped by the relationship that I have with my parents.     My God images are heavily influenced by psychological factors  Different God images can be activated at different times, depending on my emotional states and what psychological mode I am in at a given time.   God images are always formed experientially; God images flow from our relational experiences and  Also how we construe and make sense of those images when we are very young.  My God images can be radically different than my God concept. God Concept  = What I profess about God.  It is my more intellectual understanding of God, based on what one has been taught, but also based on what I have explored through reading.  I decide to believe in my God concept.  Reflected in the Creed, expanded in the Catechism, formal teaching.   Now I'm really going to apply IFS to Scrupulosity, grounding it in a Catholic understanding of the human person.  Discussed Robert Fox and Alessio Rizzo's Internal Family Systems approach to OCD in the last episode -- number 86 -- Obsessions, Compulsions, OCD and Internal Family Systems. Brief review:  Definition of Parts:  Separate, independently operating personalities within us, each with own unique prominent needs, roles in our lives, emotions, body sensations, guiding beliefs and assumptions, typical thoughts, intentions, desires, attitudes, impulses, interpersonal style, and world view.  Each part also has an image of God.   You can also think of them as separate modes of operating if that is helpful.   Brief review:  Self:  The core of the person, the center of the person.  This is who we sense ourselves to be in our best moments, and when our self is free, and unblended with any of our parts, it governs our whole being as an active, compassionate leader.   Here is the critical idea:  Each Part has a God Image -- each part has a way of understanding God based on its limited experience and how it understands that experience We have as many God images as we have parts.   How God images form in parts.  Parts have distorted God images for three main reasons:  Parts learn via experience and the ways they interpret experience, especially in their spiritual inferences, can be markedly different than what God has revealed about Himself through the Catholic Church -- for example, a part whose role is to be dissociated from the rest of the system so as not to overwhelm the core self and other parts with its burden of interpersonal trauma may see God as distant, disconnected and uncaring, in a Deistic way;  Parts may be very afraid of, angry at, disappointed with or disinterested in God and therefore refuse to connect with Him, preventing them from having needed corrective relational experiences of a loving God Part's understandings of God can vary wildly.  One part may be angry and rejecting of God, another parts may be terrified of God, a third grieving the loss of God, a fourth distant and cold toward God and a fifth part, in the same person, may not believe that God even exists.   As different parts come up and blend with the self, becoming more prominent in the system, they bring their God images into conscious awareness.  That explains how our conscious perspectives of God can shift.  Whichever part of us has taken over, which ever part of us has blended and is driving our bus, that part's God image is dominating in the moment So, in my view, a scrupulous person's parts are in a life and death battle with each other about God.  It's more than physical life or death.  It's about spiritual life or death, eternal life or death, the stakes couldn't be higher.   The scrupulous person's managers believe that if they don't suppress parts with negative God images, the consequence could be to be damned to hell for all eternity.   Manager parts are trying to appease God -- seek his approval, make things all right, strive to meet his demands, to be perfect Fr. Thomas La Santa:  I will make God love me by becoming perfect.  In this way God will have to love me.  An enormous amount of energy is wasted by the scrupulous person trying to "fix" himself or herself or trying to become perfect.   Fr. Marc Foley: The command "Be ye perfect..." does not enjoin us to strive for a flawless performance in the various tasks of life, but to do them as God wills us. We feel driven to do an A+ job on projects in which we have overinvested our egos. But doing God's will often demands the courage to do a C+ job because God bids us to spend our time and energy on other tasks.  In order to do that, the manager parts have to suppress or exile the parts that have "offensive" God images or who may otherwise seem inappropriate or unacceptable to God.   Those that are angry at God Those that are disappointed in God Those who are disgusted with God. Those that are indifferent toward God. Those that don't believe God exists.   All those ways of construing God makes sense if you understand the part's experience and how it construes its experience.  They are not accurate, they don't correspond to how God really is, but the part doesn't know that.   Those that generate impulses to get God's attention via acting out in negative ways.   Manager parts reject any part that experiences God in any negative way.   Parts seeing other parts as evil, harmful, and terrifying.   Demons  Lepers Tax collectors Prostitutes Dangerous sinners -- banishing them.   Manager Parts can speak for God -- they assume they know what God wants.  Not in relationship with him, though.  Really following a code or a list of rules or expectations.  It's not about relationship, really.   First two conditions for secure attachment -- 1) felt safety and protection; 2) feeling seen known, heard and understood.  Drawing from Daniel P. Brown and David S. Elliott 2016 book Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair.   Felt safety and protection In Scrupulosity, there is no felt sense of safety and protection for so many parts, because of their God images and their fears about the God images of other parts being expressed.  .   The first primary condition of secure attachment is not met.   The most basic relational need is not met -- no felt safety, no felt protection. The first primary condition for secure attachment is felt safety and security.  It has be felt.  And not just by other parts, but by the target part.   We all have heretical God images.   Pastor Jonathan Edwards:  The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course, when once it is let loose. It is true, that judgment against your evil works has not been executed hitherto; the floods of God's vengeance have been withheld; but your guilt in the meantime is constantly increasing, and you are every day treasuring up more wrath; the waters are constantly rising, and waxing more and more mighty; and there is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, that holds the waters back, that are unwilling to be stopped, and press hard to go forward. If God should only withdraw his hand from the flood-gate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come upon you with omnipotent power; and if your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is, yea, ten thousand times greater than the strength of the stoutest, sturdiest devil in hell, it would be nothing to withstand or endure it.  How are you going to feel safe with a God like that?   Feeling Seen, Known, Heard, Understood   because there is no feeling of safety and protection for some parts, they don't want to be seen, heard, known and understood by God.  They don't want to be near God, they don't trust him And that makes sense, given how they see God.   Some parts may want to be seen heard known and understood by God, even if they don't feel safe -- they are desperate for attention, any kind of attention from God, even negative attention, so they signal distress by intense impulses toward acting out, especially in ways designed to get God's attention -- blasphemy, for example.  Just like a neglected little kid, desperate for some kind of attention from his father may act out.   Scrupulosity is the son of anger and the grandson of shame.  Core issues of shame that are suppressed and generate anger.  Anger is suppressed and generates fear and scruples.   Shame -- the root of so much psychological and emotional distress -- whole 13-epsiode series on shame, from episode 37 to 49.  All goes back to identity.  Who am I and Who is God.  Scrupulous individuals have a very hard time allowing their anger with God to emerge into conscious awareness and with anger in general.  Dangerous emotion But look at the unreasonably demanding and exacting God images their manager parts have -- Their God images are unjust.   Who would want to be with a God like that?  No part has a really positive God image Not wanting hell  But not really wanting heaven either -- to be face to face with a God like that for all eternity?  So God has no opportunity to show the scrupulous person, in relationship, who He really is.  Self-perpetuating. I wrote a blog on this on the Souls and Hearts website last week, on Inner Pre-Evangelization: A Focus on Internal Trust.  My Approach Lead from Self --The core of the person, the center of the person.  This is who we sense ourselves to be in our best moments, and when our self is free, and unblended with any of our parts, it governs our whole being as an active, compassionate leader.   We want to be recollected, we want the self governing all of our parts Like the conductor -- leading the musicians in an orchestra Like the captain -- leading and governing all the sailors on a ship.   When we are recollected, in self, 8 C's Calm  Curiosity  Compassion  Confidence  Courage  Clarity  Connectedness  Creativity  Kindness   Self as the secure internal attachment figure for the parts.  Parts coming to trust the self  -- Blog on  Working collaboratively with the parts -- contracting with them to not overwhelm Really accepting the parts right now, where they at.  Trusting that God is good enough to understand and tolerate our parts' feelings.   Scrupulosity as a gift, a signal. Look for the disorder underneath it.  Not a question of willpower.   Diabolical aspects Leaving people to their own devices  Discouragement, inward focus, despising self,  Spiritual Approach Not about overcoming scrupulosity  Blessed are the merciful for mercy shall be theirs  Childlike Simplicity and trust lessens our burdens.  Parvulos.  Little Children.  Dust and ashes.   Example of a parent -- would you prefer your child to be working on self-perfection  Perfectionism draws us to be big, perfect, competent, having it all together.  Jacques Phillipe:  The Way of Trust and Love -- particularly helpful for those struggling with scrupulosity.    p. 7 :  The heart of Christian life is to receive and welcome God's tenderness and goodness, the revelation of his merciful love and to let oneself be transformed interiorly by that love.   “We would like to be experienced, irreproachable, never making mistakes, never fall, possess unfeeling good judgment and unimpeachable virtues. Which is to say, we would like to have no more need of forgiveness or mercy, no more need of God and his help.  41 If we accept ourselves as we are, we also accept God's love for us. But if we reject ourselves, if we despise ourselves, we shut ourselves off from the love God has for us, we deny that love. 48-49 We need to practice gentleness toward ourselves so as not to get discouraged and condemn ourselves when faced with their weakness while also nurturing a great desire for holiness. But not a desire for extraordinary perfection. Holiness is different; it is a real desire to love God and our neighbor, and, issuing a kind of halfway love, go to loves extremes. 52 …we shouldn't fall into a kind of stubborn “therapeutic obstinacy,” with the aim of ridding ourselves absolutely of all imperfections or healing every wound. In doing that, we risk becoming impatient and concentrating our efforts on something God isn't specifically asking of us or, ultimately, paying more attention to ourselves than to him. 56-57 The more we accept ourselves as we are and are reconciled to our own weakness, the more we can accept other people and love them as they are. 49 What this podcast is all about.   Contrast that with Pastor Jonathan Edwards -- sinners in the hand of an angry God:  The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.  Remember, you as a listener can call me on my cell any Tuesday or Thursday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM.  I've set that time aside for you.  317.567.9594.  (repeat) or email me at crisis@soulsandhearts.com.  The Resilient Catholics Community at Soulsandhearts.com/rcc.  So much information there and videos.   I want to invite you to the Resilient Catholics Community The Why of the RCC --  It's all about loving with your whole heart -- all of your being.  Getting over all the natural level issues that hold you back from tolerating being loved and from loving God and others.   Who  Who is the Resilient Catholics Community for? It's for you. If you really are into this podcast, if these ways of conceptualizing the human person and integration and human formation and resilience are appealing to you, then the Resilient Catholics community, the RCC may be for you.   I am looking for listeners who want to be with other like-minded Catholics on the journey, on this adventure of human formation with me.   Who deeply desire a personal, intimate relationship with God and with Mary, a real human, close connection  And who recognize they have some natural-level impediments to that deep relating  and  who are willing to make sacrifices in time, effort, money, humility and courage to grow in human formation and overcome natural-level impediments to being loved and to loving  What want to shore up their natural foundation for the spiritual life, because grace perfects nature.   Who want to become saints.   Who are willing to be pioneers at the cutting edge in this adventure of human formation.  Really at the tip of the spear, the first explorers of this human formation ground for laymen and laywomen.   First of all the RCC is My Tribe, my people, bringing together two groups into one First, faithful, orthodox, serious Catholics who are wounded and suffering and know it  And Second, who are psychologically minded (or at least want to be psychologically minded), who believe in the unconscious and who embrace the unity and multiplicity of the human person  And who want to see through the lens of a core self and parts.  Unity and multiplicity make sense.   What of the RCC $99 nonrefundable registration fee gets you the The Initial Measures Kit -- which generates the Individual Results Sheet and the Personalized Human Formation Plan 5 pages of results about your parts  -- we've done about 70 of these now, and our members are amazed at the results, how accurately we are in helping them identify their parts and how their parts relate to each other, and the why behind their parts' desires and impulses.   Weekly premium Inner Connections podcast, just for RCC community members --Lots of experiential exercises.   A complete course for working on your human formation 44 weekly sessions over the course of a year for $99 per month subscription  Daily check ins with your companion -- accountability and structure  Weekly company meetings with 7 or 8 other members in your small group.   Office hours with me  Conversation hours with me  All this for $99 per month.  And we make it financially possible for anyone who is a good fit for the RCC to join through write-offs and scholarships.  The fees are not the tail that wags the dog.   And there also is opportunities for some parts-based individual coaching as well.   Essentially, the What of the RCC is a pilgrimage together.   The When of the RCC We open twice per year to new members in December and June, open until December 31..  We are open now.  Soulsandhearts.com/rcc to register.  Call me with questions!    317.567.9594.  (repeat) or email me at crisis@soulsandhearts.com.  So sign up Soulsandhearts.com/rcc.   

Unis dans la vie, mes invités du jour le sont aussi dans leur pratique sportive du triathlon. C'est un couple de champions que j'ai eu l'immense plaisir d'accueillir sur le podcast en la personne de Charlotte MOREL et Fred BELAUBRE. Dans cet épisode, nous évoquons ensemble leur carrière de sportifs de haut niveau : leur ascension vers les sommets de cette discipline, la rigueur, les sacrifices, leurs joies ! De leur regard d'athlètes élites, Charlotte et Fred sont animés de cette envie de transmettre. En 2015, My Tribe, leur structure d'entraînement voit le jour pour accompagner à distance, mais aussi lors de stages des triathlètes de tous niveaux. C'est toujours en couple que leurs projets sont réalisés. Le dernier en date, une application (IDO Sport App) vient de voir le jour afin de simplifier la gestion des entraînements et d'accompagner des clubs, ou des sportifs dans leur pratique quotidienne des sports d'endurance, mais de bien d'autres disciplines. Un grand merci Charlotte et Fred d'avoir pris de votre temps pour cet échange rempli de sincérité et de complicité ! Liens de l'épisode sur lesquels vous pourrez retrouver Charlotte et Fred : - Page FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/mytribecoaching - Page INSTAGRAM : https://www.instagram.com/mytribecoaching/?hl=fr - Site web : https://mytribetriathloncoaching.com/ ❤️ N'hésitez pas à me laisser un message , via les liens suivants : https://linktr.ee/acotedemespompes Belle écoute à vous !

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Self care should be practiced daily, not just when you have time. Catch the 5 key words to think about when choosing what's best for you. Take the time today to answer these questions to help you brainstorm on what you can add more of into your day(s) :Where do I feel deprived?What do I need more of right now?What do I need less of?What am I starving for? (exciting new things) You deserve to enjoy too!! Give yourself that extra time for yourself to nourish you mind, body, and soul.  -xoxo, JOJOHelp this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

Two things can be true and exist at once. Who says you have to be only one or the other. Be consciously aware of your thoughts. Your thoughts is what shapes/forms your reality. Affirm good thoughts, my friend !Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

In this episode, I lay out the whole mission and purpose of the Interior Integration for Catholics Podcast -- answering the six central questions so that you can make an informed decision about whether this podcast fits you and your needs.  Get the latest in my discernment about this podcast and the Resilient Catholics Community, where we are going.   Lead in:  [cue Sundancer music] Who, What, Where, When, Why and How -- those are the six questions we're addressing today about this podcast.   Why those questions?  It's all about fit.  It's all about being clear about the target audience for this podcast and whether or not you fit.  I'm putting all my cards on the table, total transparency, so that you can make an informed decision about whether you want to engage with me or not.   So let's ask the questions.  Who is this Interior Integration for Catholics podcast for -- yes, it's for Catholics, but it's only for a small number of Catholics, maybe about 3700 Catholics in the world.  How did I get to that number -- stay with me for the calculations later in this episode.   What is this podcast all about -- what is the mission, what is the purpose of the podcast?   Where does this podcast focus?  Spoiler alert:  -- Deep inside you, but you'll have to stay tuned to find out more about that… When:  what is the new frequency and episode length for this podcast? Why:  Why should you listen?  I'm asking you for time, attention, concentration and effort -- why should you engage with this podcast at all?  I'll be fleshing out all the reasons How:  How do we make it all happen with you, for you and in you?   Find out the answer to all of these questions in this episode of Interior Integration for Catholics, number 84, The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the IIC Podcast [cue intro music] Intro: Welcome to the podcast Interior Integration for Catholics, thank you for being here with me, I am honored to be here with you, and today we are discussing you and me and us and this podcast.  We are going to get all relational as we often do here.  Because this is a relational podcast.  I'm not just a talking head in podcastlandia, I'm a real person, you're a real person and I'm into real relationships.   I am clinical psychological Peter Malinoski and you are listening to the Interior Integration for Catholics podcast -- the IIC podcast for short).   Interior Integration for Catholics is part of our broader outreach Souls and Hearts bringing the best of psychology grounded in a Catholic worldview to you and the rest of the English-speaking Catholic world through our website soulsandhearts.com.  Check that out, soulsandhearts.com for so many great resources that bring psychology and Catholicism together in a way that is faithful to the truths of our Faith.   Let's get into answering the questions -- the who, what, where, when, why, and how of this podcast.   Who is the IIC Podcast For?  It's for You.  Ideal listener If you have it all together, if you're sky high on life, if you continually leap from one pinnacle of natural excellence to an even higher summit of human greatness, bounding upward, always with grace and precision and a laser focus on perfection -- good for you. I'm happy for you and in awe of you.   But you don't need this podcast.   Let me put it this way.  This podcast is for the Catholic who admits he or she is hurting, struggling, a lost sheep, in need of help. This podcast is for you who are like me, who are very imperfect, wounded, harmed in various ways, who are confused and frustrated, who are weary, who are lonely, who are burdened in different ways.   It's for your parts. we are a unity but also a multiplicity.  We don't have a single, unified, homogenous, monolithic personality.   We have several or many parts, each one with its own personality.  This concept of parts of us is absolutely central to this podcast.  If this idea of parts does not appeal to you, you probably won't like these episodes.  I believe there were two major discoveries in psychology, one at the end of the 19th Century -- the discovery of the unconscious -- Freud popularized that.  And the other near the end of the 20th century -- the discovery of the multiplicity of self which Richard Schwartz popularized.   Definition of part:  Separate, independently operating personalities within us, each with own unique prominent needs, roles in our lives, emotions, body sensations, guiding beliefs and assumptions, typical thoughts, intentions, desires, attitudes, impulses, interpersonal style, and world view.  Each part also has an image of God and sense of identity, who you are.  Robert Falconer calls them insiders.  You can also think of them as separate modes of operating if that is helpful.   This podcast is especially for your inner outcasts, those parts of us that you reject -- inner lepers, inner tax collectors, inner Pharisees, inner critics, our inner prostitutes, the untouchables within us, our inner rebels, fugitives, inner vagabonds and bums, our inner abused children.  Our refugees, our inner imprisoned convicts the parts that don't get to see the light of day, the parts that may have never been loved by you or any other human being who walks the face of the earth.   As I've discussed in so many previous episodes, especially Episode 71: A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others -- I firmly believe that the concept of a core self and these several or many parts helps us to make so much more sense of our experiences, helps to explain so much.  And as I laid out in Episode 73, Is IFS Really Catholic, I believe that with some modifications, IFS can be harmonized with our Catholic Faith.   St. Augustine, Confessions “My inner self was a house divided against itself.”  That's parts.   Romans 7:15  I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. It's not just about willpower Romans 7:18b  I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.  This isn't about willpower -- Paul had amazing willpower.  It's not about the intellect.  Its about those two discoveries in psychology -- the unconscious and the fact that we have parts.   Openness and receptivity to learning and growing. This podcast is for you, you, the one who deeply desires an intimate, personal relationship with God and with Mary, even if  you struggle with it You who want to be able to come to God our Spiritual Father and Mary our Spiritual Mother with childlike trust and complete confidence Overcoming your natural-level impediments  Anything that compromises our capacity to relate and love in the natural realm will compromise our capacity to relate and love God and Mary.  Period.  Full stop.   Invested in own human formation, and is motivated to grow Psychologically-minded  Embraces the multiplicity/unity aspects of the human person and wants to relate better with self internally.   Willing to tolerate some suffering -- it will cost you to really engage with these podcasts Attention and concentration  Experiential exercises   Wants to love self in a much more ordered way, overcoming shame, overcoming self-absorption Wants to love others in a much more ordered way Orthodox, practicing  Catholics Willing to sacrifice Let's do the numbers There are 70 million Catholics in the US, 13 million in Canada, 5 million in the UK, and 5 million in Australia. Adding in the Catholics of a few other countries, New Zealand and so on, we can round it to about 100 million English speaking Catholics in the entire world.   The Catholic Man Crisis Fact Sheet (pp. 36-41) and the Catholic marketing agency Fuzati both assert that only about 10% of Catholics are committed to their faith and practice it regularly by frequenting the sacraments, praying, and engaging in parish or other community life.  I think that's generous.  Sherry Weddell who does all kinds of work evangelizing in parishes says that 98% of Catholics have no other contact any with Catholic resources other than their parish.  Let's go with one tenth, though, one tenth are committed Catholics.  One tenth of 100 million leaves 10 million English speaking Catholics committed to the Faith and regularly practicing, taking their faith seriously.  Of those, how many really accept that the unconscious exists, and that it has a huge impact on our internal experience, that it affects us in major, unseen ways.  So many Catholics, especially devout Catholics get really uncomfortable with the power of the unconscious.  They don't want to go there.  They want to believe that most of their inner life is in their conscious awareness.  I'm going to estimate that only 30% of the 10 million English Speaking, practicing, serious Catholics are willing to really embrace the unconscious and its implications.  That leaves us with 3 million Catholics worldwide.   Now how many of those 3 million will accept that we have parts, these little personalities within us, how many will accept that we are both a multiplicity and a unity, how many will resonate?  I think about one third of those.  Parts really make many Catholic uncomfortable -- are you saying, Dr. Peter, that I'm like Sybil, with multiple personalities.  Yes I am.  That's exactly what I am saying.  I'm saying we're all like that, not so disconnected and dissociated as those who have been diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, now called Dissociative Identity Disorder, but that multiplicity is within us, we have parts within us.  So one third of 3 million leaves us with 1 million Catholics who might resonate with this podcast.   How many listen to podcasts at least on a monthly basis?  37% of US residents, according to podcasthosting.org's compilation of statistics.    We're down to 370,000.   How many are really committed to human formation?  That are not just looking at the spiritual life, but also at their natural human formation?  Those who really consider the natural realm.  It's not that many.  I figure maybe 10% of those Catholics, and again, that's being generous.  We're down to 37,000.  And how many of those 3700 will find this podcast -- that depends on you, how you spread the word. But let's say that over time, we get to 10%.  We're down to 3,700 potential listeners.  3700 potential listeners.  This is a niche podcast.   We are really a very small percentage of the Catholic population from 100 million to 3,700. We are getting about 4,000 downloads per month.  That's not that many, really.  And our most popular episode had just over 700 downloads total, all-time.   And a download doesn't mean a person actually listened to the podcast.  And some people download the same episode over and over again -- they listen multiple times.   For the last ten episodes that have been up for more than thirty days, we averaged 469 downloads each.  That's not that many!  Transistor.fm, my podcast host, estimates that we have 201 Subscribers, those who listen to each new episode within 24 hours of its release on platforms like Apple Podcast or Spotify.   So we are a niche market.  I'm looking for 3700 out of 100 million English speaking Catholics.  That's .0037 of one percent, or one in 27,000 Catholics.  That's how special you are.  Now maybe I'm underestimating the numbers here. I  hope I am.  You can let me know if you think I'm off base.   Just five days ago, I got this email from a listener and her words capture what I am looking for in those 3700 potential listeners. Here is what she said: First, I just want to share with you that your podcasts (and those of Dr Greg Bottaro) have been earth shattering for me, it's been an absolute revelation in the last 3 months and I can't thank you enough for delving into this 'crying need' to understand ourselves, the mysterious struggle to battle our interior world, and where God (or our image of Him) gets caught in the crossfire.  I realized while listening to several podcasts, they answer nearly everything I experienced for years without even realizing they have names...Until listening to the podcast I was never really open to psychology - I relied and trusted more on a well developed will power to always pull through. It's rather painful to think I could have saved myself a lot of needless angst had I learned about this earlier. I'm very knowledgeable about the Faith and I frequently help others in their own faith but my own issues are hard to combat...the podcast brought all this to the next level.  That is what I want for my listeners.  Real impact, the kind of impact that helps you change your lives.  That's what I am looking for, for you.   So those the qualities of my intended audience -- the who of the six questions This is for you who are a Faithful, orthodox, practicing Catholic -- you who are hurting, struggling, a lost sheep, in need of help.  And you who are invested in your own human formation, willing to accept the unconscious, willing to embrace your inner outcasts, all the parts of you that have been rejected by others, those who may never have been loved by you or your family or any other human being around you.   Openness and receptivity to learning and growing With a willingness to make sacrifices of time, attention, effort.   You who deeply desires an intimate, personal relationship with God and with Mary, even if  you struggle with it. You who want to overcome your natural-level impediments to approaching God our Spiritual Father and Mary our Spiritual Mother with childlike trust and complete confidence Anything that compromises our capacity to relate and love in the natural realm will compromise our capacity to relate and love God and Mary.  Period.  Full stop.   Wants to love self in a much more ordered way, overcoming shame, overcoming self-absorption Wants to love others in a much more ordered way Outer rings -- those who drop in, those who pass by and stay an hour or two with the podcast -- you are welcome. Seekers -- those who want information on a particular topic for themselves or for a loved one -- bipolar disorder, scrupulosity, shame, sexuality, trauma  Take what is helpful to you.   Me -- So we've talked about you, now let's talk about me, just briefly In this podcast, I will never ask you to do something I won't do myself.   I work on myself.  A lot.  Both in the natural realm and in the spiritual realm.  I check in with my parts five to seven times per day.   I have a human formation plan of life I have a spiritual plan of life and a spiritual director Charisms -- exploring these through the Catherine of Siena Institute -- online program Called and Gifted, siena.org, Sherry Wedell founded it decades ago -- impressed with her work.  Jenna Reimersma -- group work IFS grounded in Christianity.   Why am I telling you all this?   Nemo dat quod non habet  You can't give what you don't have.  I can't give you what I don't have.    Lots of discernment going on.  How to guide the podcast, how to guide Souls and Hearts.  I invest in that process of discernment for you.  For you.   Us together Conversation Hours -- every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30 to 5:30 PM Eastern time.  317.567.9594.  I've taken lots of calls from my committed listeners.  Why?  Because I want to be with you, to be together with you in a deep way.  I want us to actually have a relationship.  I want to know what is going on in your lives.  That connection only makes this podcast better and more relevant to you.   Let's talk about me meeting you where you are at: Will I do that?  Depends on where you are at.  That brings us back to the target audience.  Those are the ones I am called to reach out to.  I'll meet them where there are at with this podcast.  Those for whom there really are not that many resources.   More than that, though I'll meet you where you are at, but I will call you to a higher level of human formation.  Anne Lamott in Traveling Mercies:  The secret it that God loves us exactly the way we are…and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this.   John the Baptist -- went out to the desert, inhospitable places -- the people came to him.   Jesus in John 6:  Discourse on the bread of life -- so many people left John 6:60  Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”   John 6:66 After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him. He didn't chase them.  He didn't water anything down.  He let them make a choice.   Jesus with the Rich Young Man -- not meeting him where he was at -- calling him to a higher plane, to being one of the original disciples.  Matthew 19:20-22 The young man said to him, “All these I have observed; what do I still lack?” 21 Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22 When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions. Jesus backpedal, did he reel it in, did he soften his position, did he run ahead of the rich young man and try to smooth out the hard road for him.  No he did not.  He addressed his disciples instead.  Let's pick up the narrative in verse 23.   23 And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”  Ripple effect to others.   Now we are going to address the question of What  What is the IIC Podcast all about"  Your need for human formation grounded in a Catholic Anthropology without Apology Not giving up any of the Truths of the Catholic Faith, not surrendering on the smallest point of dogma or dogma, even when it's uncomfortable   Utilizing the best of what modern psychology has to offer Theory  Research  Clinical Experience  Drawing from all of that.   Topics/Themes  All centers around love.  That's the point  Receiving love From yourself  From others  From God, especially God as your primary Father, your Spiritual Father, to heal father wounds  From Mary, especially Mary as your primary Mother, your Spiritual Mother, to heal mother wounds.    Books My Ideal: Jesus Son of Mary, Fr. Emile Neubert  Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence by Fr. Jean Baptist Saint Jure and Saint Claude de la Columbiere   Our spiritual parents are more our parents than our earthly parents, our natural parents God knew that whatever deficits your parents had, whatever wounds they inflicted He had a plan to make up for that  Only allowed the bad things to happen in order to draw greater good from them  Listeners' testimonies -- would not trade their histories now.   Healing can happen on the natural realm, not just the spiritual realm Model of the Human person Multiplicity and Unity  Parts  Loving oneself.   where we take on the toughest topics, the most difficult and raw themes that many people want to avoid. Fulton J. Sheen  “The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.” Means we use Didactic portion -- a Lecture if you will.   Draws from Secular Sources   Catholic Sources Scripture  Catechism  Lives of Saints   More than two decades of my clinical experience as a Catholic psychologist -- integrating   Story -- dramatization   Literature Quotes  Poetry   Experiential Exercises   What is the goal?   Our Niche:  Solidifying and strengthening our human formation so it can serve as a foundation for a deep, intimate, relational intimacy with God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and Mary our Mother  Spiritual Parents God our Spiritual Father  Mary our Spiritual Mother   Gaping hole of human formation -- human formation as the natural foundation for the spiritual life St. Thomas Aquinas -- Grace perfects nature.   Human formation just starting to be addressed in seminaries -- human formation emphasized there -- see IIC 63:  Human formation: the critical missing element.   A whole section is devoted to human formation in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops document entitled "Program of Priestly Formation, Fifth Edition" which came out in 2006.  pages 29-42 Longest and most complete discussion of human formation I could find in an official church document  14 pages -- but no definition of human formation.   What this podcast is not about Not about priests, bishops, popes, spouses, friends, politicians, Catholic celebrities, not about anyone other than you and your internal world and your relationship with yourself, with God and with Mary your spiritual mother  Not about world peace -- it's about inner peace  It's not about current events -- it's about the events in your inner life, your interior life.   It's not about righting wrongs in our families and our neighborhoods, our parishes, our nation, our world -- it's about right wrongs within us.  That's our starting point, that's what gets neglected in our world.   It's not about social justice -- it's about inner justice, about you being just to you, in all your parts.   It's not about mercy to others -- it's about mercy to your own abandoned, needy, condemned, rejected parts.   It's not about evangelizing others -- it's about evangelizing yourself.   It's not about focusing on the problems of any other human being -- it's about you examining you and you connecting with you -- it's about knowing yourself, as Socrates commanded It's about removing the beam from your own eye as your Lord commanded, so you can see more clearly   This is not about being hip and fashionable in the Catholic world.  I'm not some sort of Catholic star or celebrity or social media influencer.  None of these podcast episodes are ever going to go viral on social media.  I'm not good at being hip or fashionable or one of the cool, popular Catholic media kids on the block.  Trying to be like that would make me look like I was trying to dance the Macarena while intoxicated at your cousin's wedding, and that is not a pretty picture.   We're maintaining the focus on you, especially on the hidden parts of you, where most people do not want to go.  There's a reason why we hide parts of ourselves from ourselves.  We want to bring the light. This is not selfishness.  This is not some kind of self-absorbed navel gazing in a psychological day spa where you have cucumber slices over your eyes and white cream on your face and I tell you how wonderful you are and lament with you about how terribly others treated you.  Engaging with this podcast is more like a boot camp that demands humility and courage and boldness and perseverance that the vast majority of people are not going to demonstrate.  If you really go inside you're going to find things you really don't like.  Things that scare you, things that disgust you, things that could upset you.   Freud 1933 the id is a chaos, a cauldron of seething excitement Bessel van der Kolk “As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”   The Body Keeps the Score Emily Dickenson  One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —One need not be a House —The Brain has Corridors — surpassingMaterial Place — Far safer, of a Midnight MeetingExternal GhostThan its interior Confronting —That Cooler Host. Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,The Stones a'chase —Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounter —In lonesome Place — Ourself behind ourself, concealed —Should startle most —Assassin hid in our ApartmentBe Horror's least. The Body — borrows a Revolver —He bolts the Door —O'erlooking a superior spectre —Or More —   This is a hard road people -- really getting to know yourselves. St. Augustine said: “Humility is a virtue by which a man has a low opinion of himself because he knows himself well.”   And there's nothing so distracting as looking at other people -- attributing our difficulties to other people, pointing the finger at other people.   The London Times once sent out an inquiry to famous authors, asking the question, “What's wrong with the world today?” and Chesterton responded simply, “Dear Sir,  I am. Yours, G.K. Chesterton.”  St Augustine  “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”  Where -- let's tackle the where of this podcast Where is this podcast?   Simple asnwer -- it's on all the major podcast players-- Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Podcast, all of them.   It's also on our website:  Soulsandhearts.com/iic.   The more important question -- where in you does this podcast intend to reach?  Where will we work together?   We work in your heart.  Not just head knowledge -- not just intellectual material.  But in your heart.   Luke 10:27 Jesus answered “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” Start with the heart -- in the body, in the natural realm.  Not with the soul.  With the heart.  With the seat of emotions, with the seat of relational experience.  Before the soul, even.  The heart.  Leading with the heart.  And Our Lord insists on the whole of us --all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, all your mind -- all of us.  All of our parts.  we start in your heart but we also will work with your mind and your soul and your body Feeding your mind with groundbreaking new conceptual material -- integrating IFS concepts with a Catholic worldview.   Another where question -- Where does the podcast fit in the broader Church -- where is our corner of the vineyard? I'm going to sum it up with this term -- Inner pre-evangelization.  This podcast's corner of the vineyard is human formation, specifically Inner pre-evangelization.  What do I mean by that?   Let's start with a Definition of Pre-evangelization from Fr. John Hardon's Catholic Dictionary:  Preparation of a person or people to receive the Gospel. The need for such preparation in the modern world arises from the massive neglect of God and things spiritual. "In the past," the Second Vatican Council explains, "it was the exception to repudiate God and religion to the point of abandoning them, and then only in individual cases; but nowadays it seems a matter of course to reject them as incompatible with scientific progress and a new kind of humanism" (Gaudium et Spes, 8). Through the media of social communication, this spirit of unbelief has permeated whole segments of society. Hence the need for predisposing people even to listen to the Gospel, especially in the once Christian affluent cultures of Euro-America.  USCCB National Directory on Catechesis reads as follows:  Pre-evangelization ordinarily builds on basic human needs, such as security, love, or acceptance, and shows how those basic human needs include a desire for God and his word.  Sherry Widdell:  Fruitful Discipleship, p. 63.  Direct pre-evangelization of individuals includes praying for others, building genuine friendships, fostering personal and spiritual trust, hospitality, the witness of your life and vocation, having threshold and spiritual conversations with individuals, asking thought-provoking questions to stimulate spiritual curiosity, and sharing the story what you've seen God do in your own life. So pre-evangelization is all about preparing a person or a community to be able to receive the Gospel. I argue that we need to pre-evangelize ourselves.  Even those of us faithful, practicing Catholics -- we need to go inside and work with our parts.   We don't want shifting natural foundations -- leads to rickety spiritual edifices that are likely to fall down.   I make the case that we have many parts who are separated, who are isolated, who have terrible, toxic God images, who may be terrified of God, raging at God, disappointed in God.  I make the case that we can't just bring God to them without some preliminary work on the natural realm.  This is what I am calling inner pre-evangelization.   Definition time with Dr. Peter.  Inner pre-evangelization is preparing your parts on the natural, human level through your love for them through bringing them into relationship with your core self so that they can better tolerate being loved by God and Mary and heal.  Then, in a much more integrated way, you can love God, Mary, your neighbor and yourself in a much more intimate, deep, full, and complete way.   I know from clinical experience that a client's exiled part often needs to experience the love from the client's core self before that part can be open to the love of God or love from others.   Love your neighbor as yourself.  Luke 10:27.  We need to love ourselves.  We need to love our parts.  As part of that love, we help our parts with human formation.   So where is our corner of the vineyard -- in your heart.  In your human heart, in the natural recesses, the hidden pockets of your heart.   When -- let's ask when.  Monthly Episodes, 60-90 minutes, they come out the first Monday of the Month.   Reducing frequency -- each episode takes 12-15 hours to produce.  That's a lot of time.  But there's another reason, and I'll address it at the end.   Why?  So you and I can walk this pilgrimage through this life to heaven   Life and Death seriousness about this.  Eternal consequences to how we address these human formation issues.   I want you to have Peace, joy, wellbeing. I want you to fulfill your destiny, accepting your identity as a beloved child of God and Mary, a cherished son or daughter of the Most High God and our Lady.   Finding freedom in that identity as a beloved child Responding in love. How Fulton Sheen 1978:  There is a third approach to an electronic audience which will be in the future. It will not always be the direct, nor even the indirect which I used. It is what might be called the ant biological. I do not use this word in the sense of the science of man's beginning. I merely mean it as the roots of the word imply – a study of man. The presentation of religion had been principally from God to man, but now it will be from man to God. It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself. It will take all the findings of our psychological age and use them as a springboard for the presentation of Divine Truths.   I often wish that I were younger so that I might use this third approach which I have mentioned namely, starting with the unhappiness inside of the human heart. The audience is always there, the opportunities are ever present. There is need to take hold of tortured souls like Peter, agnostics like Thomas and mystics like John and lead them to tears, to their knees or to resting on His Sacred Heart.  How?  By working with your heart -- the unhappiness within your heart, the restlessness within your heart, the pain, the wounds, the trauma, the burdens that your parts carry.   The Resilient Catholics Community Not long after I started this podcast I started getting dozens of requests every month from listeners asking if I would be their individual therapist.  I've turned away hundreds of people, I don't have the bandwidth to take on so many.   But it led to the question -- How can I help?  How can I go beyond the podcast.  How can I do more?  There's a need here, there has got to be more than the one-way communication of the podcast.  More than just the occasional phone calls and emails.   And not all at once, not suddenly, but gradually it came to me.  We needed a community.  I had a deep sense that I was called to pull some of these 3700 potential listeners together and offer you something that went much deeper, much further, and something that brought us all together.  A community.  And so, last year, the Resilient Catholics Community came into being Who  Who is the Resilient Catholics Community for? It's for the minority of our potential 3700 adult listeners who really love this podcast who get this podcast.  This Podcast is a funnel  Who are so invested in their human formation that they are willing to spend time, money, effort on it  Who want to be with other like-minded Catholics on the journey  Who burn with a desire for a deep, intimate relationship with God and with Mary, a real human, personal connection  And who recognize they have some natural-level impediments to that deep relating  and  who are willing to make sacrifices in time, effort, money, humility and courage to grow in human formation and overcome natural-level impediments to being loved and to loving  Who want to become saints.   Who are willing to be pioneers at the cutting edge in this adventure of human formation.  Really at the tip of the spear, the first explorers of this human formation ground for laymen and laywomen.   Who am I in the RCC  First of all the RCC is My Tribe, my people, bringing together two groups into one First, faithful, orthodox, serious Catholics who are wounded and suffering and know it  And Second, who are psychologically minded (or at least want to be psychologically minded), who believe in the unconscious and who embrace the unity and multiplicity of the human person  And who want to see through the lens of a core self and parts.   I don't want to do this alone.   I've spent a lot of time in these last 84 episode, letting you get to know me, what I think and feel, and who I am as a person. Especially in episode 71 A New and Better Way of Understanding Myself and Others -- I described to you all my parts, all those that I know!   I stay in the natural realm -- preparing the way.  John the Baptist.  Arithmetic before algebra.   Not a spiritual director Not a priest I don't claim to understand how grace is moving in your soul   I don't see myself as a leader, as a shepherd.  I see myself more like an Old English Sheepdog Loud distinctive bark   Independent and Strong willed -- so I need your prayers to be small and humble and childlike and responsive to the touches of our Lord and our Lady.   Adaptable and intelligent, like to learn new things Faithful Good family dog Physically pretty big -- like me.   Sociable Protective Love having fun -- clowns, sense of humor.   What of the RCC The Initial Measures Kit -- which generates the Individual Results Sheet and the Personalized Human Formation Plan -- we've done several of these now, and our members are amazed at the results, how accurately we are in helping them identify their parts and how their parts relate to each other, and the why behind their parts' desires and impulses.   Weekly premium podcast, just for RCC community members -- Inner Connections will be starting soon  A complete course for working on your human formation   Daily check ins with your companion -- accountability and structure Weekly company meetings Office hours with me Conversation hours with me Special resources -- for example in my email communication with Derek Scott, he provided me with a trove of his extra resources on grief in a password protected section of his website that he said RCC members could have access to.  That is so cool.   All this for $99 per month.  And we make it financially possible for anyone who is a good fit for the RCC to join through write-offs and scholarships.  The fees are not the tail that wags the dog.   And there also is opportunities for some parts-based individual coaching as well.   Essentially, the What of the RCC is a pilgrimage together.   The When of the ITC   We will reopen in December for a limited number of new members.  It might 100 new members, we don't want to take on more than we can really be with and effectively work with.   Sign upon the waiting list now -- we already have 58 on the waiting list, go to soulsandhearts.com/rcc and register for the waiting list.  Later this week, I will be sending out the first email with extra resources to waiting list members, to give you a sample of some of the resources in the RCC.    Soulsandhearts.com/rcc to register.   The main reason I am reducing frequency of this podcast from weekly to monthly is so that I can spend more time with the RCC members.  It's that simple.  You RCC members are my people.  I have a very strong call to really invest in my connection with you, in my relationships with you.  I want to be with you on your journey of human formation, on your journey of inner pre-evangelization of your parts.  I want to be with you in this part of your work in the natural realm.   The podcast has already met some of its objectives Evergreen content  Giving you a huge sample of my content, my style and who I am to help you discern if you want to take the next step, which is joining the RCC   The Why of the RCC --  It's all about loving with your whole heart -- all of your being.  Getting over all the natural level issues that hold you back.   So sign up for the waiting list.  We'll go through our list from the earliest to the latest joining members, so your ranking matters if we have to limit enrollment.  Soulsandhearts.com/rcc.  Remember, you as a listener can call me on my cell any Tuesday or Thursday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM.  I've set that time aside for you.  317.567.9594.  (repeat) or email me at crisis@soulsandhearts.com.  I want to mention another community for any of you listeners who are Catholic therapists or therapists in training -- If you are really interested in Internal Family System and you want to be with me and other Catholic therapists, working on your human formation with your colleagues, The Interior Therapist Community is for you.  We are finalizing new groups for the fall, so check out all our offerings at soulsandhearts.com/itc.  So tune in next month, on Monday, October 4, 2021 when we will begin our series on perfectionism and scrupulosity.  Several of you have asked me to address those topics, so I will.     Gerry Crete, the cofounder and CEO of Souls and Hearts has a special message for you Catholic men about his community, Catholic Journeymen.  Let's hear from Dr.Gerry:   Invocations of our Lady and St. John the Baptist.   Credit for the Lead in music which is titled Misty Meadow  by George Sundancer at Pixabay.   

My Tesla Stock is up over 100% but I don't see it doubling over the next 24 months.  My Tribe has put me on to a stock that I believe will 5X over the next 24 months.  That's why I'm selling some of my Tesla stock.Welcome back, tribe members! Today I'm discussing "I'm Selling More of My Tesla Stock". If you enjoy this video feel free to SUBSCRIBE! Make sure to follow me on social media for even more coverage of the stock market.The Power of a Tribe: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096TWBDM3/...Get Surfshark VPN at  https://surfshark.deals/INVESTORS and enter promo code INVESTORS for 83% off and 3 extra months for free!  Follow Me: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BestofUSLLC/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bestofusinv...Twitter: https://twitter.com/BestOfUsInvestSubscribe:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-hq...Help Kerry and Nita win the race against Childhood Cancer and keep their daughter Shay's memory alive. Your support makes a direct impact in the fight against Pediatric Cancer at Children's of Alabama by helping advance research in finding a cure for cancer. http://give.childrensal.org/bestofusWe have Up-Graded Our Discord: Kerry's Portfolio, Trades and InsightsThis is the new link: https://discord.io/bestofus. It is now organized by topics and will be easier to navigate and communicate.

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I give you 5 mindful practices you can start implementing into your life regardless of your busy work week.  Tune in to how I manage my time and energy. I challenge you to try these mindful practices, consistently and you WILL start to notice a HUGE difference in the way you feel.Help this podcast grow organically by taking a quick moment to leave us your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm truly grateful for you--- MAHALO, in advance! *My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

Have you ever thought there was someone else in the room with you? Ever seen someone or something that wasn't really there? Ardis Hughes has been connected to the supernatural since she was a young girl, seeing a man in her room at the family farm house. Through hard times and heavy drinking, thankfully Ardis know there could be a better way of living. Now she has an amazing family and farm life! Learning more about herself and her place on this Earth everyday. Filling her life with teachers of many kinds, Ardis has almost formed her own school for your life. Being able to go riding most days and being with nature, clearly does the soul good. Now helping to make the Earth a better place with farming a family business of making an organic fertilizer, which Ardis's father invented! Having the pleasure of being her friend for a few years now I have to say the thing that inspires me the most about Ardis Hughes is the lesson of taking your time and not rushing through life. I find that Ardis does very wonderfully at staying present in the moment. She soaks in every detail she can, and I love it! It is so beneficial to have friends who help you be a better human just by being around them. I am blessed to have you in my tribe Ardis. Let's get well together!Host: Karla Turnerwww.KarlaTurner.caIG: @theansweriselephant & @karlaturner.wellnessadvocateFB: @The Answer is Elephant Podcast & @Karla Turner.Wellness Advocate  Guest: Ardis Hugheswww.soilaid.comIG: @ardyqh  FB: @Ardis HughesSponsored By: reFRESH Food & Drink Offering healthy lunches, smoothies, fresh juices, fresh baked pretzels, juice cleanses, kombucha onWalkers General Store Walkers General Store is a retail store for the whole family. We are not all about "western wear".

Welcome to the Worthy & Enough Podcast. I get  vulnerable sharing a little bit about me and where I come from. I share My goals and vision for the podcast. I am so excited to grow with you all ! Help grow the show Take a quick moment to leave W&E your raving reviews on APPLE Podcast. I'm committed bringing you value and keeping you on track while sticking to your main intentions; finding the perfect balance you need. I'm truly grateful for you and your support--- MAHALO, in advance! https://www.joannacorpuz.com/OR CHECK OUT MY WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO!P.S Your self-discovery journey never ends. This is my third year and I'm still learning AND growing each and every day.♡FIND ME HERE♡--->IG:  @HICOACHJOJO(screenshot this episode and tag me)MY CREATIVE OUTLET --->IG:@JOJO.EMPOWERSYOUTUBE:JOJOBEAN  --->*My Tribe of like minded Souls*(Listen and Rate W&E both on Spotify & Apple Podcast)

A trajetória de uma brilhante arquiteta italiana que traduziu o Brasil; histórias humanas que se conectam em meio a um massacre; a primeira tradução integral dos diários inquietantes de um gênio da literatura; um mergulho nas histórias que revolucionaram a nossa alimentação; a busca pela vingança de um homem que vive um tempo de ruína e barbárie; e um breviário único e imaginativo que mistura poesia e biologia. No primeiro Marca Página do mês, Ana Paula Hisayama apresenta as boas histórias que a Todavia lança em maio. ||Saiba mais:LINA: UMA BIOGRAFIA > https://todavialivros.com.br/livros/lina-uma-biografia||ATOS HUMANOS, de Han Kang >https://todavialivros.com.br/livros/atos-humanos||DIÁRIOS – 1909-1923, de Franz Kafka >https://todavialivros.com.br/livros/diarios-1909-1923||AS REVOLUÇÕES DA COMIDA: O IMPACTO DE NOSSAS ESCOLHAS À MESA, de Rafael Tonon > https://todavialivros.com.br/livros/as-revolucoes-da-comida-o-impacto-de-nossas-escolhas-a-mesa||O RISO DOS RATOS, de Joca Reiners Terron >https://todavialivros.com.br/livros/o-riso-dos-ratos||PEQUENA ENCICLOPÉDIA DE SERES COMUNS, de Maria Esther Maciel >https://todavialivros.com.br/livros/pequena-enciclopedia-de-seres-comuns||// FICHA TÉCNICA:Apresentação e texto final: Ana Paula HisayamaProdução: Ricardo TertoRoteiro: Ana Paula HisayamaEdição: Ricardo TertoArte: Flora Próspero||Crédito músicas utilizadas neste episódio:|| Lamentation de Kevin MacLeod é licenciada de acordo com a licença Atribuição 4.0 da Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Fonte: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100607Artista: http://incompetech.com/ =Constance - The Descent de Kevin MacLeod é licenciada de acordo com a licença Atribuição 4.0 da Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Fonte: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100850Artista: http://incompetech.com/ = Front Porch Sitter de Audionautix é licenciada de acordo com a licença Atribuição 4.0 da Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Artista: http://audionautix.com/ =My Tribe de Ketsa é licenciada de acordo com a licença Atribuição 4.0 da Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artista: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa#contact-artist

Check out Paul's amazing work on his website and Instagram. Get in on the fun with Hold Space for My Tribe to see Paul as a little blue alien. Virtual Realism: an online exhibition produced in partnership between the Art History Babes and Zach Clark of National Monument Press. Attention artists, we want you to submit your work for the exhibition! Follow these two steps to be considered, application deadline is May 1st! Subscribe to the Art History Babe's Patreon for as little as $1 a month Submit your work on Virtual Realism's page by filling out a simple submission form Any inquiries can be submitted via email to arthistorybabes@gmail.com, please put "Virtual Realism" in the subject line. Additionally, you can reach out to Ginny and Zach directly on their Instagram's: @_ginbot & @zachclarkis or @arthistorybabespodcast. Order the Honest Art Dictionary: https://www.arthistorybabes.com/get-our-book AHB YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtHistoryBabes Patreon: www.patreon.com/arthistorybabes Website: www.arthistorybabes.com Insta: @arthistorybabespodcast Tiktok: @arthistorybabes Email: arthistorybabes@gmail.com Theme music by Brendan Dalton: https://www.brendan-dalton.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At CEE, we think a lot about good teaching. This is the fourth episode in our 2021 Teaching Series. And it's the last episode of our first season! Jen Kling is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She's also the Executive Director of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, the largest, most active group of philosophers in the US working on the causes of war and the prospects for peace. In this episode, Jen touches on all the themes of our 2021 teaching series: philosophy as both a skillset and a disposition, finding an entry point for students new to philosophy, and using games to teach social contract theory. Jen has a lot of fun in the classroom. And her students do too! One student, Betty Varland, even adapted an Adele song to Aristotle. You'll get to hear that in the episode. Jen says: "So much of what I do is just to make people laugh. I really think it's genuinely important. I think philosophy is very serious, it can be very important, heavy topics. You have to find your way in to these questions. And for me, humor and movement is the way to do that. And so I try to impart that to my students." Episode transcript Produced by Carrie Welsh. Interview recorded at APA Central, February 2020. Music is My Tribe by Ketsa and Cascades by Podington Bear. Special thanks to Betty Varland for permission to use her song. ---- This is the last episode of our first season. We'd love your feedback on our next podcast season! Survey link here: https://forms.gle/UBvQZo2qoYtRL9Jw6

I'm BACK B*TCHES!!! LOL JK nah but for real, I am very excited to be back recording and publishing episodes. Season 5 of Diary of a Mad Black Man is going to be the the longest running season ever! This season will mostly have exceptional guest who are in the space of raising awareness for mental health and being active in ending stigma and creating support for those who have mental health and wellness challenges. In this diary entry, I speak directly to you. Yes YOU! My Tribe! It is really setting the stage for what is to come with my podcast. I want you to engage with me in the social media world too. Please be sure you're following me on whatever platforms we both use. I plan to be very strategic with what I create moving forward; basically meaning I really care about you, this podcast, my diary, and my journey as a podcaster. At the end of the day, I'm a creative, and I'm sensitive about my sh*t. I am thankful to be at this stage of my healing journey and able say this is episode 101!!!!! [YYYEEEESSSIIIRRRRRRR} I would have never believed you if you told me in October 2019 I would eventually have 101 episodes! I hope you enjoy this, and many more episodes to come. I look forward to connecting with my tribe and making dope memories together. -- Follow me @DIARYOFAMBM on all socials | Fanbase, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Clubhouse, Email: blake@theblackpodcastclub.com www.theblackpodcastclub.com This episode is sponsored by Canna Comforts | CC produces the finest, all-natural products on earth.... Canna Comforts Website. DISCOUNT CODE: diary25 Donate via Cash App: $theblackpodcastclub --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/diaryofamadblackman/message

My Tribe on the rise of music subcultures in Ireland, Irish filmmaker Paul Rice travelled across Russia meeting LGBTQ+ activists along the way who face the threat of extreme physical violence, A Worm In the Heart screens at diff.ie, John Meagher & Andrea Cleary review new albums from the iconic Nick Cave, to the Kings of Leon & Jane Weaver.

This week we've only got Craig and West (with a little cameo from Scott). West struggles to say "narrowboat", we get a pizza delivered, and West quotes Blues Brothers. Remember! You can email us or follow us on https://twitter.com/freemusicdiscs (Twitter). We love to get your feedback. Features this weekScott's Peek of the Week Craig's Peek of the Week North of West / South of Truth News Twitter updates Craig's Smoooooth Mail What happened to JBadge? Songs played in this episodehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Oferta_Especial/Donde_las_Toman_las_Dan/oferta_especial_11_has_pasado (Has pasado by Oferta Especial) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Fog_Lake/Dragonchaser/Fog_Lake_-_dragonchaser_-_04_kerosene (kerosene by Fog Lake) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/1-of-1/my-tribe (My Tribe by Ketsa) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/the-kleptotonic-ep/little-lily-swing (tri-tachyon by little lily swing) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/5f91e09024ca8/fingerlympics (Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/1-of-1/candy (candy by ketsa )

We sit done sit down to talk with Wesley Gregg of Williams Lake, BC. Wes reached out to me this spring, and told me how he wanted to start a podcast related to snow avalanches and then he found The Avalanche Hour. He also has a background in audio engineering! We had a quarantine video chat, and he told me about some of his backcountry ventures. Wes and his ski partners often will sled into remote cabins to go skiing for the weekend. He recounts a couple of close calls that have helped shape his current risk tolerance and communication strategies. This is bits and pieces of our conversation, but I find it to be an honest reflection of a ski touring career thus far. Wes digs into some deep honesty and I think there is something for everyone in this one. Music: In My City by Grammatik, My Tribe by Ketsa, and SkankingEasy Dub by Shoalin Dub. https://beaconreviews.com/Specs_PiepsDSP_switch.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4E2uPY8IX0

#44 The dynamic market continues to dominate the U. S. residential real estate landscape.. In this episode, I share 1. The most current data on the state of the real estate market from NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS and MLS Listings, as well as my day-to-day insights. 2. Why this is a good time to list your home, if you're thinking of selling within a year. 3. My unique buyer program to help you get in the right home for you. 4. The best strategy for first-time home buyers to get into home ownership right now. 5. How to get the best deal on new construction. 6. How to join MY TRIBE and get highly curated best content for what you need right now. 7. Announcement on the new episode, coming soon: Lender update: What is the best, fastest, and most secure way to apply for purchase or refinancing online. 8. BONUS: Celebrating HALLOWEEN ONLINE?

“Coming back from the second child, I actually experienced, what I call, the maternal world bias happening in the corporate company that I worked for which is really not about my capacity as a mother (...) but they just felt that for some reason now that I have children, I’m not as capable as I was before.”Imagine a world where women would have to sometimes choose their family over their career… Oh wait, we’re living in this kind of world! Starting a family and also keeping your career going should be a compatible way of living, however, some companies don’t see this issue women face and choose to ignore it. For women who find themselves not being as valued in their jobs after they start having kids, it’s a breaking point where they decide to change something, and some of them even start their own businesses in order to create a life where family and work go hand in hand.Today’s guests Jessica Osborn. She is a business coach and marketing consultant for female coaches, consultants, and service professionals who want to grow and scale their business while achieving the lifestyle they aspire to. As an active host of the 1,000-strong online business community My Tribe, Jessica shows her passion for supporting women to overcome limiting beliefs, command their worth and succeed in business. Over the last 10 years, Jessica has also founded two successful online businesses of her own.In this episode, we will be talking about how to develop that ideal customer avatar, how to pivot your messaging during this time of uncertainty, Jess will also give great advice on how to go easy on yourself when you don’t feel as productive as you normally are and much more.Let’s jump in!WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:Who is Jessica Osborn and what she doesHow Jess got into coaching other service based businessesAre women still finding it difficult to come back to work after having kidsHow to get around having young kids and building your businessHow to separate home life and work life when working from homeJess’s advice on structuring your work dayOnline tools recommendations for planningThe process behind figuring out who your ideal client isResources to help you build your ideal client avatarDo businesses need to pivot their marketing messaging during the pandemicRESOURCES:Website: https://jessicaosborn.com/Customer Avatar Worksheet Freebie: https://jessicaosborn.com/customer-avatar/Online Masterclass: https://jessicaosborn.com/define-your-ideal-customer-workshop/Facebook: https://facebook.com/jessicaosborn.bxcoachInstagram: https://instagram.com/jessica.osborn/LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessicaaosborn/Kaity on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaitygriffin_/Kaity Griffin Website

My Tribe! by Low Mein

This message is for the King Men of My Tribe! The Great Feminine Salutes You!

It is a season of wishes and making wishes come true. And that is exactly what I hope to be able to do for you, I call My People, My Tribe, those who are out there daring to dream each and every day. Those who have followed me, those who have responded to calls, those who have encouraged me with words, I want to encourage you just a little bit right now. Plan for your 2019, that you're able to have your best year ever. Best year ever in 2019. Because that's what I'm hoping for myself, and I really want nothing less than that for you. So, I'm going to let you in on a secret, next year I am claiming it right now in 2018 - 2019 will be my best year ever. 2019 is the year of my best year ever! And I hope that you're able to go along on the journey with me.  So, let me tell you why making wishes come true is so important. Just like last week, I was with a client, we were in a coaching session online, and she said to me that she wished she had had this information last year, or even earlier this year. And so, then I remark to myself I wish that I had someone to work with me as I work with my clients, to help them achieve their dream jobs sooner than they could on their own. And I do concur with that. And so, her which was literally in our conversation, that she could have had this sooner. So, my wish for you is that you can have it sooner than you thought. You really can! And so, let me tell you a little bit about this program. So, Manifest Your 6-Figure Dream Job - I know all of you have heard something about it, if you haven’t and you’re hearing it for the very first time, I am happy to be sharing my blessing with you before 2018 turns to 2019. So, I want you to know that it is a one-on-one Dare2Dream Coaching Program to help you land your six-figure job sooner than you could on your own. So, my lifelong goal has always been to leave this world a better place than I found it, and that's really part of the reason why I'm doing this work, is to help me to honor my purpose and my call, by sharing with you my blessing. So, what I realized that in my nine-to-five job, I was not able to really fulfill and answer my call. I was limited by the constraints established by the position, due to no fault of their own, but I decided to take a leap of faith, and I founded Dare2Dream earlier this year, and so I have no regrets. I do sometimes get anxious and have some fears, but I remind myself every single day of the conversations, like the one I should have with you, that I get to do this, I get to live out my purpose, I get to share my blessing every single day. So, in the spirit of making wishes come true, my one wish for you is that you have no regrets, and you are able to live your six-figure dream job by landing in this program and live your six-figure dream job and life now. You might be wondering how can that happen? I have to answer for you. Right now, I want to help you to take advantage, and to stop wishing and start doing. And I'm offering you an opportunity to take advantage of the blessing that I have been given to share with the world. And this is for you if you're looking to have your best year ever in 2019. It's for you if you're tired of wasting your time in the wrong job, you're sick of not having enough money, you're ready to take a vacation, you're embarrassed to even by your job title, or the lack of a job title, you are feeling like a failure, you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. You see the Dare2Dream 5-day Dream Job Challenge you'll learn how to manifest your six-figure mindset, be intentional and proactive, get clarity, get unstuck, discover your dream job, and get on track with your dream job search in 2019. So, if you're like many of us, we have time off coming up - what are you going to do with your time off? You might have even received some gifts. Better yet you might be wondering do you need another pair of shoes? Do you need another purse? Another anything? No. It is time for you to take hold and have your best year ever. I'm sure, I am sure in fact, that you might even be searching for an answer, and if you find yourself in that place, and you're looking for something to help you get on track to where you know you deserve to be, and if you are thinking that you wish you had someone earlier this year, last year, or like me, in your twenties, to help you get on the right track with your dream job, and to get your six figures now, then the link below, or above, or in my bio, you can connect with me at Lisa@Dare2DreamCareers.com and I will send you the information. If you can't find the link below or above, check it out, I will say to you that stop wishing and start doing. But take hold and make sure that in 2019 that you get started with your best year ever. I'm so glad you took the time to listen to this if you have any questions check out my website. I have a podcast and a bunch of things that are going to be happening in 2019, and I'm just so excited that I get to do this work, and you get to be on the journey with me.   Take care, see you soon.   Connect with Us: www.dare2dreamcareers.com Work with Us: https://bit.ly/2rIJ462 Real Girlfriends Prayer Devotional: https://amzn.to/2U23GlV Join the Dare2Dream FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/CoachLisaEaly/

"FIND YOUR TRIBE! You know, the ones that make you feel like the most YOU! The ones that lift you up and help you remember who you really are. The ones that remind you that a blip in the road is just that, a blip. They are the ones that when you walk out of a room, they make you feel like a better person then when you walked in. They are the ones that even though you don't see them as often as you like, you see them heart to heart. You know, THAT kind of tribe! Who is YOUR tribe?"Jennifer Pastiloff “A Date with Destiny” is designed to help motivate, inspire and EMPOWER you to live your life in the highest context of love, peace and joy! It will help you to take a closer look within yourself and discover the great, “I AM” that dwells there. It will help you to have a better understanding of the Laws of the Universe-“God's Laws,” and how it was designed just for YOU to have all you could ever want. Tune in as I talk with MY TRIBE about what the importance of belonging to a strong and supportive village.    Visit us: www.yourdestinyawaits.net; - twitter-@lyse101; facebook.com/ adatewithdestiny101#itsallaboutthelove;www.yourdestinyawaits.tumblr.com

"FIND YOUR TRIBE! You know, the ones that make you feel like the most YOU! The ones that lift you up and help you remember who you really are. The ones that remind you that a blip in the road is just that, a blip. They are the ones that when you walk out of a room, they make you feel like a better person then when you walked in. They are the ones that even though you don't see them as often as you like, you see them heart to heart. You know, THAT kind of tribe! Who is YOUR tribe?"Jennifer Pastiloff “A Date with Destiny” is designed to help motivate, inspire and EMPOWER you to live your life in the highest context of love, peace and joy! It will help you to take a closer look within yourself and discover the great, “I AM” that dwells there. It will help you to have a better understanding of the Laws of the Universe-“God's Laws,” and how it was designed just for YOU to have all you could ever want. Tune in as I talk with MY TRIBE about what the importance of belonging to a strong and supportive village.    Visit us: www.yourdestinyawaits.net; - twitter-@lyse101; facebook.com/ adatewithdestiny101#itsallaboutthelove;www.yourdestinyawaits.tumblr.com

Spiritual Homegirl caught up with Cultural Ambassador and RocNation Artist Young Paris while on a trip to New York! They discuss Afrobeats, why Africa is not just a "trend", the symbolism of his face paint, his mission beyond entertainment, cultural appropriation, and love. Young Paris' also has a new project coming out on May 16 entitled "My Tribe", check out a snippet of his song "Runaway": audiomack.com/song/afrobeats-1/runaway-snippet --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spiritualhomegirl/support

Hello Everybody! Welcome to Episode 66 of Save It For The Breakdown. On this episode I had the opportunity to speak with Rad Rich from Houston, Texas. Rich has been a part of the Houston, Texas punk/hardcore scene since 1984. We talk about his experiences and contributions to the Houston scene. Thank you for listening. Enjoy the show. Code Of Honor - "Code Of Honor" - Complete Studio Recordings 1982-1984 Government Issue - "No Rights" - Legless Bull Government Issue - "Anarchy Is Dead" - Legless Bull Swiz - "Lie" - No Punches Pulled Thug Boots - "My Tribe" - Elite Breed Demo Bad Brains - "I Against I" - I Against I Black Flag - "Modern Man" - Loose Nut Agnostic Front - "Crucified" - Something's Gotta Give

Yellow presents its Yellow Cup Party. Saturday 28 February at My Tribe , Old Kent Road, London. 10- 4 am (last entry) 1.30 am Here is a Dj Able 60 minute mix of music from past , present and future Djs on the night: Kismet Able Sef Kombo Aplus Tippa