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...
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 | 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 18, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Faith
I have been thinking and praying about how God is calling me to be a witness, and as a result, have decided it’s time to do something new. A broken culture Most people don’t believe me when I say this, but it’s true: I don’t watch the news. So...
Feb 12, 2024 | Anxiety, Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Mindfulness, Catholic Psychology, Popular, Trust
We aren’t just spiritual beings. Rather, we’re human beings, which means we have both a spirit and a body. And that is why body spirit integration is so important for our growth. Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things are passing...
Feb 6, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Femininity
Healthy vs excessive worry You might be surprised to learn that the final post in the series about feminine brain strengths is actually about worry! As a psychologist, I rarely talk about worry as a strength. I should qualify here that I am talking about a little...
Feb 6, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Femininity
What exactly does stayin’ alive mean when it comes to our next superpower of the female brain? Female strength statistics Before diving in to the next “superpower” of the female brain, let’s go through a few statistical facts about women: A...
Feb 6, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Femininity
Female collaboration as a superpower One day while riding on the train on the way to my office, there was a female conductor. I’ve travelled with a female conductor once before, and both times ended the same way. On the intercom as we reached our...
Feb 6, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Faith, Relationships
Profound Mystery of the Incarnation in Christianity “Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in...
Feb 4, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Healing
What is Catholic Psychology? People often ask me, “What do you mean by Catholic Psychology?” There are lots of questions people have regarding my work because it is a field that is relatively new. The Catholic part has been around for millennia and the...
Feb 4, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Mindfulness, Healing
Is healing a spiritual or physical experience? Let’s talk about the unity of our being and how mindfulness can play a part in our healing. Unity of body and spirit There is a false dichotomy, an error in thinking, that runs deep in the veins of our sense of...
Feb 3, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Femininity
We’ve talked about intuition, now let’s talk about empathy in women. Females Exhibit Stronger Empathic Abilities In the first article in this series on differences in the female brain that give it an edge over the male brain in certain functions, I talked...
Feb 3, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Healthy Living, Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental health and mental illness – The following is an excerpt edited from a live presentation and Q&A with Dr. Greg Bottaro. Q. We hear about mental illness all the time. But how do we arrive at mental health? Can you give a working concept of what...
Feb 3, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Mindfulness, Catholic Psychology
I want to offer my perspective on Catholic mindfulness, given there is a lot of misinformation surrounding this topic. Misconception of Coffee and Mindfulness Coffee aficionados often claim that the spread of its popularity among Catholics is due to Pope Clement...
Feb 3, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Mindfulness, Prayer
Outside the present moment – the power of imagination As humans, we possess the capability to encounter in the present moment something that is outside of the present moment in a way that physically changes our brains. It’s a little like having a...
Feb 1, 2024 | Body-Spirit Integration, Catholic Psychology, Femininity
Female Brain vs Male Brain With this post, I’m opening up a short series focusing on the female brain and a few of the ways that it differs from the male brain. Fortunately there is a ton of research out there to rely on instead of just offering musings from my...
