Welcome to Episode 19 of the Being Human Podcast: Is It Your Parents' Fault? 

In this episode, we talk about:

• The stereotype of “blaming parents” in therapy
• How dualism affects how how we get help
• Understanding why we think the way we do
• Seeing both nature and nurture in the ways we learn to be human

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• 1 John 4:19
• The Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat
• Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph
• To find out how the CatholicPsych Institute can...

Welcome to Episode 18 of the Being Human Podcast: Should You Just “Pray More”?

In this episode, we talk about:

• Integrating our physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual lives
• The fallacy that you should “just pray more”
• Why we seek healing alongside prayer

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• The Mindful Catholic book 
• The Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat
• Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph
• To find out how the CatholicPsych Institute can help you,...

Welcome to Episode 17 of the Being Human Podcast: Boundaries and Safety

In this episode, we talk about:

• Boundaries as appropriate relationships
• Getting hurt
• What is an appropriate relationship with God?
• Sitting with what God has promised and what he has proven
• The foundation for safety, security, happiness, and peace

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Matthew 16:24-26
• The Mindful Catholic book 
• The Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat
• Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph
• To...

Welcome to Episode 16 of the Being Human Podcast: Changing How You Feel

In this episode, we talk about:

• Emotion regulation and emotion modulation (and what those are)
• The ability to change how you express your feelings
• The ability to change how intensely we feel an emotion to begin with
• How this connects to our search for peace
• The false assumption that it’s inauthentic to change how you feel
• My theory about parenting and “inconvenient” emotional expression from children
• ...

Welcome to Episode 15 of the Being Human Podcast: Getting the Full Set of Tools

In this episode, we talk about:

• The plan for complementarity between men and women
• How holiness and happiness are connected
• Why a mom and dad are needed for a child
• What comes more naturally to moms
• What comes more naturally to dads
• How the masculine and feminine dimensions bless, affirm, complement, and develop each other

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• LETTER TO THE BISHOPS of the Catholic Church...

Welcome to Episode 14 of the Being Human Podcast: Five Qualities of the Feminine Genius

In this episode, we talk about:

• How the female brain differs from the male brain
• Five qualities of the feminine genius: qualities that the female brain accesses more easily, due to brain chemistry
• 1. Intuition
• 2. Empathy
• 3. Collaboration
• 4. Impulse control 
• 5. A little bit of anxiety

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• LETTER TO THE BISHOPS of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men...

Welcome to Episode 13 of the Being Human Podcast: St. Joseph’s Masculine Genius

In this episode, we talk about:

• St. Joseph and the masculine genius
• Differences in male and female brains, and what that reveals about male and female persons
• Seven qualities of St. Joseph that can teach us about the Masculine Genius (see below)

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Men have more testosterone, more intra-hemispheric neural connectivity, less progesterone, and less cross-hemispheric neural connectivity.

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Welcome to Episode 12 of the Being Human Podcast: Different by Design

In this episode, we talk about:

• The complementarity of the masculine and feminine genius
• The reverence we owe to each other
• Jesus and Mary as examples of the masculine and feminine

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph
• To learn more about therapy offered by the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.
• To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
• For more resources from the...

Welcome to Episode 11 of the Being Human Podcast: Needing a Mom and Dad

In this episode, we talk about:

• The family as the “school of love”
• We learn who we are and how we are to behave
• The necessity of mother and father
• The roles of St. Joseph and Mary in our lives and salvation

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• The Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph
• To learn more about therapy offered by the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.
• To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
...

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Being Human Podcast: Why Failure is a Good Thing

In this episode, we talk about:

• The fear of failure
• Faith as the source of our peace
• Failure as the way to make progress

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• To learn more about therapy offered by the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.
• To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
• For more resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

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