Oct 22, 2024 | Gender and Sexuality
Hello and welcome to the Being Human Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Greg Bottaro, and today is a really special day. This is being released on the Feast of St. John Paul II. So, happy Feast Day St. John Paul II. Pray for us. AI-Generated transcript of this episode:...
Oct 16, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Podcast
Transcript Dr. Greg:Hello and welcome to the Being Human Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Greg Bottaro, and today I have a co-host with me for this episode, Fr. Louis Merosne. He is a being human friend and favorite. Today, actually, we’re doing something...
Oct 2, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Podcast
Dr. Greg:Hello and welcome to the Being Human Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Greg Bottaro, and today I’ve got an amazing guest, another graduate from the CPMAP certification. And the day this episode is getting released, it’s a really special day...
Sep 24, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Podcast
Transcript Dr. Greg:Hello and welcome to the Being Human Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Greg Bottaro, and we are continuing our series of insider baseball here. A look at the Catholic Psych CPMAP certification through the lens of graduates, students who...
Sep 18, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Podcast
Transcript Dr. Greg: Hello and welcome to the Being Human Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Greg Bottaro, and today I have another amazing guest, a graduate from the CPMAP Certification Program. We’re doing this little series of graduates in...
Mar 5, 2024 | Catholic Mindfulness, Healthy Living
Dreaming big is what God expects of us! I’m sharing 3 tips for dreaming if it’s been a while and you don’t know where to start. “If you don’t use it, you lose it” This clichéd phrase has commonly been used to explain how, if you don’t exercise...
Mar 5, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Positive Psychology, Trauma
Catholic Psychology recognizes the Resurrection of Christ as a reason to hope while we suffer our own traumas. The Resurrection of Christ is our source of hope Integrating the field of psychology into a Catholic framework is not an easy task when you consider that...
Mar 5, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Healing, Trauma
Maura Preszler, author and non-profit leader, promotes healing after trauma and the idea that spiritual and mental health are connected. Mental illness does not mean you don’t pray enough On the CatholicPsych Facebook page, I once shared a post that ended...
Mar 4, 2024 | Femininity, Masculinity, Parenting
Modern culture seems to no longer see why men and women need each other, especially when it comes to the structure of a family. God designed the family so that both men and women’s contributions are needed. You probably already know by now that I have a weekly...
Mar 4, 2024 | Pornography, Relationships
There are two types of pornography: physical and emotional. Let’s talk about what emotional pornography is and why it tends to target and hurt women. Sex sells Marketing in our culture is almost exclusively based on sex. We have known this for years, and...
Mar 1, 2024 | Anxiety, Faith
Though He doesn’t always take away our problems, Jesus is the light that dispels our fears and uncertainties. Change can be scary The year 2020 reminded us that it’s really scary to not be in control; to live in time where things can change rapidly from moment...
Feb 29, 2024 | Faith, Gender and Sexuality, Suffering
Misguided ideas about gender and sexuality have infiltrated schools, homes, families, marriages, parishes, and communities, causing many Catholics to feel lost in how to approach conversations related to those topics. How do we react? The possibility for conflict and...
Feb 27, 2024 | Faith, Human Dignity, Identity
Are you waiting for life to look a certain way before focusing on faith? The truth is, you have everything you need right now to become who you are – a saint! Once/Then Reasoning It’s easy to fall into thinking in “once/then” terms when it comes to...
Feb 27, 2024 | Catholic Mindfulness, Communication, Relationships
Conflict in relationships is unfortunately unavoidable. But how we get through said conflict is a skill we can try to develop. Here are my thoughts on how to get better at resolving conflict. Consider the last argument or disagreement you had with a loved one During...
Feb 27, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Human Dignity, Identity
What do you think of when you consider who “you” are? Do you feel like you are a spiritual being, living in a body but separate from it? Do you have a positive or negative view of your body? While it’s true that there is a...
Feb 27, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Healing, Prayer
Shawn van der Linden, IDDM Master Mentor & CatholicPsych International Programs Consultant, shares how your “inner spiritualizer” can have more of an impact on your psychological life in this article! Unearthing the “inner...
Feb 27, 2024 | Anxiety, Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Mindfulness
Human experience is fraught with a multitude of problems, most of which stem from doubt. Our lives begin without much complication until we start to worry if everything is really going to be okay. Are we doomed to live in anxious doubt for the rest of our lives? No!...
Feb 27, 2024 | Faith, Healthy Living, Human Dignity, Identity
Catholic guilt gets a bad rap. But guilt is actually an amazing spiritual survival instinct that God built into our humanity to reorient us back to our proper identity – back to who we really are. In other words, the fact that you feel guilt is because...
