Jun 18, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
The Love That Sets Us Free: A Compassionate Path Through OCD OCD can be a torturous experience. Not a quirk or a desire for tidiness, but a dread-filled urgency that demands the elimination of uncertainty. Which is, of course, an impossible task. Living with...
Jun 11, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
The Goodness of a Perfectionist Part I am a perfectionist. And it isn’t all that bad! People tend to trust us perfectionists with responsibilities. We are seen as reliable. We are often praised for our attention to detail, our thoroughness, and our ability to produce...
Jun 4, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
A People Pleasers Guide to Saying Hard Things Saying something hard but true is a people pleasers worst nightmare I’ve laid in bed late at night, paralyzed—heart pounding, throat tight, mind racing—because of the things I’ve been afraid to say. I picture the person I...
May 27, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
Did You Know There Are Two Types Of Narcissism? Why Narcissism Sometimes Sneaks Up On Us. When you hear the word “narcissism,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For many people, it’s an image of someone loud, arrogant, and aggressively...
May 9, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
Habemus Papam! We have a pope, and his name is Leo XIV. White smoke has risen from the Sistine Chapel chimney, and the Catholic world has a new shepherd. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the 267th pontiff and has chosen the name Leo XIV, a choice...
May 8, 2025 | Faith, Femininity, Mental Health Awareness Month
Learning to Mother with Mary: How Her Example Inspires, Intimidates, and Transforms Me When I first became a mother, I knew life would never be the same. I had entered uncharted territory—holy ground—but I didn’t realize how unsteady my footing would often feel. How...
May 2, 2025 | Faith, Mental Health Awareness Month, Popular
A Reflection on May the 4th, the soul and the fallible Mentor Spirituality entered into my consciousness through Star Wars. The original film carried with it the weight of transcendence beyond the material world, and it blew my six-year-old mind. I couldn’t articulate...
Feb 4, 2024 | Depression/Bi-Polar, Mental Health Awareness Month
Confusion around mental health Robin Williams has become more than a suicide victim, he has become a spokesman for depression and suicide. Opinions have been thrown across the interwebs and lots of conflict has emerged. This is what happens when evil happens. Suicide...
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 | 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 | Identity, Mental Health Awareness Month
Selfishness or Narcissism? What exactly is narcissism, especially as it presents in narcissistic personality disorder? We throw around the term “narcissist” and “narcissism” a lot these days, usually when we refer to someone who we believe has...
