Sep 23, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Popular
What does it take to effectively accompany another person on the journey to Heaven? Most people would agree that two of the essential ingredients are compassion and truth. But which one comes first? Let’s look to Padre Pio (and Jesus) for the answer. Padre Pio...
Aug 15, 2025 | Catholic Mindfulness, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Podcast
How does the new Fantastic Four movie reflect the Catholic vision of life, family, and moral responsibility? Lately, Marvel hasn’t exactly been delivering its best. The golden age of the Infinity Stones, Tony Stark, and Steve Rogers feels like a distant memory. Since...
Aug 12, 2025 | Catholic Mindfulness, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Podcast
Why slowing down might be the most countercultural—and fruitful—thing you do today. If you’re anything like me, your day is ruled by a calendar. Meetings. Calls. Google reminders. Maybe even time-blocking your lunch break because otherwise, it disappears. I...
Aug 6, 2025 | Anxiety, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
Panic attacks can be terrifying. If you’ve had one, you know what I mean: your heart’s racing, your chest tightens, your thoughts spiral, and for a second—or several minutes—it feels like you’re going to die. Or like you’re going crazy. Or both. The good news is...
Aug 5, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
Let me start with something surprising: AI therapy works. We’re now seeing clinical outcomes from AI-driven counseling tools that are comparable to—and sometimes even better than—traditional therapy. That’s not science fiction. That’s current reality. Whether it’s...
Aug 4, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
The key to taking the next step forward in your life may be a deeper understanding and application of a singular word: watchfulness. As legend has it, the devil spent a lot of time harassing St. John Vianney. He would light the saint’s bed on fire. He would fill the...
Aug 1, 2025 | Addiction, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
How to settle anxiety in the heart and mind of someone with OCD On a spectrum from discomfort to the loudest of alarm bells, OCD longs, sometimes shouts, for more. It always wants, needs, more. More proof, more evidence, more certainty, more clarity, more...
Jul 29, 2025 | Addiction, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content
How Adultery Happens: An Integrated Psychological Perspective Recently, a video surfaced online that took the country by storm: Andy Byron, the now-former CEO of Astronomer, caught on camera at a Coldplay concert with a woman who wasn’t his wife—the company’s head of...
Jul 24, 2025 | Addiction, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Trauma
Oof. That question. No one really wants to ask it—and certainly no one wants to answer it. But if we’re honest? Most of us are probably somewhere on the yes spectrum. And listen—no judgment if that’s you. Because it’s me, too. I have ADHD.I didn’t stand a chance.I...
Jul 22, 2025 | Addiction, Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Trauma
When we think of addiction, our minds often go straight to the behavior: the bottle, the pills, the porn, the gambling. We focus on the what. But if we stop there, we miss the deeper truth—the why. The reality is this: every addiction is a trauma story. I’ve...
Jul 16, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
Recently, I called a friend of mine to ask for some wisdom. I don’t know about you, but I have a tendency to overcomplicate things and overcommit myself. So I reached out and shared the challenge I was facing—one I was confident he had encountered before—hoping he...
Jul 15, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
And for many dads, this constant state of responsiveness comes with a hidden cost: the slow disappearance of their inner life. When Every Moment Belongs to Someone Else If you’re a father, your life is no longer your own. That’s not a complaint—it’s a vocation. But...
Jul 11, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
I was heading down to the basement to work out. That was the plan. But as I descended the stairs, I passed the storage closet—recently emptied of a few boxes—and noticed how disorganized it had become. And suddenly, reorganizing that closet felt… necessary. Urgent,...
Jul 4, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
As we celebrate the Fourth of July, it’s worth asking a question most Catholics probably haven’t considered: Can you be holy and still be American? Or more pointedly, does the American mindset help or hinder the spiritual life? In 1899, Pope Leo XIII wrote...
Jun 28, 2025 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
For a long time, Jesus’ mother meant nothing to me I knew Mary was important—she had a statue in the church, she was in the prayers—but she wasn’t for me. I grew up Catholic, but Mary wasn’t emphasized much in my formal formation. I never disliked her, but I never...
Dec 10, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Podcast
Transcript Hello and welcome to The Being Human Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Greg Bottaro, and today, I’m going to share a secret with you — the secret for self-compassion. Now, this might sound fluffy or easy, something you can just roll past, but wait a...
Dec 4, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Podcast
Transcript Hello and welcome to the Being Human Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Greg Bottaro, and today I’m going to share with you another continuation of this little series we’re doing on man and woman. Specifically, I’m sharing with you the...
Nov 20, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Podcast
Transcript Dr. Greg:Hello and welcome to the Being Human Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Greg Botarro. Today, I’ve got my favorite special guest ever. She’s my wife, and we always get great reviews whenever she’s on. I really should learn more...
