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,...