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 | 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 13, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Healing
How can we better come to understand the ways we hide ourselves to protect against the pain we’ve experienced – but which end up causing other problems? Where do we find emotional healing? Strength in relationship God designed our humanity in such a way...
Feb 6, 2024 | Healing, Human Dignity, Relationships
Guest author Sean Faulkner, a CatholicPsych Institute psychotherapist, shares how empathy can be a powerful tool in healing and dealing with conflict. Empathy heals wounds and connects hearts There is little more hurtful than to not feel seen, known, or understood....
Feb 6, 2024 | Dating, Healing, Healthy Living, Relationships
Just because infatuation isn’t always love, that doesn’t mean it’s not important when it comes to relationships. Let’s talk about why. Infatuation vs. Love It’s pretty obvious to anyone with a pulse over the age of 12 that there is a major...
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 | Healing, Healthy Living, Positive Psychology, Stress
One effective way to manage stress is change your perspective on it! How Pressure Leads to Stress My first job fresh out of graduate school was as a mental health counselor in a prison. My days were spent listening to the inmates talk about their intense levels of...
Feb 3, 2024 | Catholic Psychology, Healing, Mental Health Awareness Month
In this interview with a therapist, get to know Dr. Bryan Violette! This month has been designated as Mental Health Awareness month. During May, I’ve decided to shine a light on various common mental health issues in the upcoming Being Human...
Jan 31, 2024 | Catholic Mindfulness, Healing, Healthy Living
Guest blog post by Lindsey Peppers, continued from Part One… How I found Catholic Mindfulness Some of the meditation authors/speakers I listened to dabbled in eastern or New Age spiritualities that I knew were often in contradiction with my Catholic faith. I had...
Jan 31, 2024 | Catholic Mindfulness, Healing, Healthy Living
Guest blogger Lindsey Peppers shares her journey to finding hope and healing through Catholic Mindfulness. (This is part 1 of a 2-part series.) Hitting a low point It was an otherwise unremarkable weekday in the fall of 2016 when I sat across from my neurologist,...
