Being Human Podcast - Episode 19: Is It Your Parents' Fault?

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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

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Being Human Podcast - Episode 18: Should You Just “Pray More”?

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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

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Being Human Podcast - Episode 17: Boundaries and Safety

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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

 

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Being Human Podcast - Episode 16: Changing How You Feel

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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

 

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

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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

 

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Being Human Podcast - Episode 13: St. Joseph's Masculine Genius

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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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Being Human Podcast - Episode 12: Different by Design

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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

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Being Human Podcast - Episode 11: Needing a Mom and Dad

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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

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Being Human Podcast - Episode 10: Why Failure is a Good Thing

podcast Dec 31, 2019

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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