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...
Feb 22, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Healthy Living
When we view failure through the lens of our faith, it becomes possible to see how failure can actually be a doorway to growth, development, and conversion. Failure The word itself is enough to give some of us a mild panic attack. Generally seen as something to avoid...
Feb 22, 2024 | Healthy Living, Positive Psychology
Every New Years the blog posts sound the same. If I hadn’t learned a few game-changers in the last year, I wouldn’t be adding to the noise. I want to share with you a few simple brain hacks that, if put into practice, will help you not only win at your New...
Feb 22, 2024 | Relationships
I want to give some tips for online dating, to the very large population of single men and women using the same means to find their vocation that Barbra and I did. The love of my life I married the love of my life. I met the one woman in the world chosen for me from...
Feb 22, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Trust
Living a faithful life comes down to one thing: trust. It all comes down to trust. I suppose I shouldn’t start with that if it all comes down to it so I will back up. So many things stem from distrust Anxiety, Neuroticism, Eating Disorders, Phobias, Depression,...
Feb 21, 2024 | Anxiety, Faith, Trust
St. Therese is generally regarded as a cute saint. But there was much more to her as found in her writing and way of thinking that we can apply to our lives today. St. Therese’s not-so-cute writing In her autobiography, she wrote the types of things that might...
Feb 21, 2024 | Pregnancy and Life Issues
In a world of culture wars and absence of thinking, it is vital that we preserve culture and civilization in ourselves. This is true as a group wherever possible, but primarily and most importantly as individuals. What I’ve learned about culture wars from The...
Feb 21, 2024 | Parenting
My wife gave birth to our first son, Elijah. This event has turned my life upside down. Here are some of my thoughts on having a baby. 3 thoughts I’ve had over the past year What I thought I knew before was only a shadow of knowledge, and what I felt before...
Feb 21, 2024 | Catholic Psychology
Catholic Psychology is built on the premise that we are on a journey for purpose, and we can find happiness if we look in the right place. In the image and likeness of God Catholic Anthropology (the study of human beings) is built on the principle that human...
Feb 21, 2024 | Anxiety, Faith, Trust
Though we are limited by our mortal understanding, our souls can find reassurance when we remember the promises of God and Jesus Christ, who is the light of our faith. Light and darkness In his encyclical Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis talks about faith as...
Feb 21, 2024 | Masculinity
If we know it or not, the natural need for male role models is inside all of us. Awe-inspiring men Every day I take the subway to my office and I spend a few minutes staring at the ads in the train. On the NYC trains, one company sometimes buys all of the ad space in...
