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Welcome to Episode 129 of the Being Human Podcast: The Importance of Staying Close to the Poor

What can we learn by staying close to the poor? Find out in this week's episode! We're sharing part of a lecture from our new CPMAP Certification Program in which Dr. Greg opens up about the powerful impact of the life and work of Fr. Benedict Groeschel, including how he exemplified recognizing the presence of Christ in the poor and why it's important for us to do the same.

Discussed in the episode:

• The danger of believing we can create solutions for every discomfort;

• Self-sufficiency as a roadblock to dependence on God;

• Being close to the poor as an important aspect of following Christ;

• What we can learn from Fr. Benedict Groeschel's example of living out the gift of poverty;

• Fr. Benedict's attempts to reform the Fransicans and the suffering at the end of his life due to dementia;

• How suffering can purify us is we allow it;

• A reflection and meditation from Fr. Benedict Groeschel with journaling questions from Dr. Greg.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• What is the CPMAP?

• Episode #82: Changing the Rules: Creating a Catholic Standard for Mental Health

• Listen to the first episode in our 12-part series breaking open the content in the CPMAP curriculum;

• Spiritual Passages: The Psychology of Spiritual Development by Fr. Benedict Groeschel;

• Need help? Schedule a free 30-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Join the waitlist to be notified about our next Open House to learn more about the new CPMAP certification!

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

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Welcome to Episode 128 of the Being Human Podcast: Can I Just Pray It Away? (A Mentorship Message)

Is it possible to "pray away" the difficulties in our life? This week, Dr. Greg opens up the archives to share audio from a Mentorship** message addressing this question. In the episode, he offers insight on how we can best approach suffering using principles from St. Ignatius of Loyola's discernment of spirits.

**For those new to Integrated Daily Dialogic Mentorship (IDDM or "Mentorship"), our model offers daily accompaniment through the exchange of private, voice-recorded messages shared between you and a trained Mentor. This message from Dr. Greg to his client is shared with permission.

Discussed in the episode:

• Distinguishing between spiritual and non-spiritual desolation;

• The importance of initiating small changes to improve non-spiritual desolation;

• Looking for moments when change can be made vs. waiting for change to happen;

• How ruminations add weight to our burdens and increase suffering;

• A reminder that change does not happen overnight;

• Noticing the reaction of the different parts within ourselves.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Interested in IDDM (Mentorship)? Schedule a free consultation call with someone on our team to learn more and discuss how we can support you!

• Discover more about how IDDM (Mentorship) works;

• One Simple Way to Deal With Feeling Overwhelmed blog article;

• Read The Mindful Catholic by Dr. Greg Bottaro;

• More on Healing Through Catholic Mindfulness on the blog;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

• Join the waitlist to be notified about our next Open House to learn more about the new CPMAP certification!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Episode 127 of the Being Human Podcast: "I'm Gonna Want to Divorce You At Some Point," w/ Barbra Bottaro

In this week's episode, Dr. Greg gets personal on the podcast! His wife Barbra joins him to discuss some of the difficulties they grappled with as they entered marriage, highlighting the need for awareness of how our own family of origin issues can impact our vocations.

Discussed in the episode:

• Being aware of the "language" one learns in one's family of origin;

• How experiences in our life teach us what to expect when relationships get difficult;

• The importance of open communication;

• Specific hurdles Dr. Greg and Barbra overcame during their engagement;

• The temptation to self-reliance in marriage;

• Importance of seeking healing from family of origin wounds;

• The sacrament of marriage as a purification of one's self-centeredness.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Respond to let us know if you want to hear more from Dr. Greg and Barbra!

• Download The Integrated App to access the free Marriage Mini-Course;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to A Marriage Built to Last - Dr. Greg's relationships course;

• Read Living the Sacrament of Marriage on the blog;

• Watch How Mindfulness Can Impact Relationships on YouTube;

• Need help? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Join the waitlist to be notified about our next Open House to learn more about the new CPMAP certification!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Episode 126 of the Being Human Podcast: Part 2 of Following the Holy Spirit, Theology of the Body, CatholicPsych…and Other Tangents: An Interview w/ Dr. Greg

Continued from last week, here's Part Two of Dr. Greg's conversation with Fr. Sam Kachuba and co-host Matt Sperrazza on The Tangent podcast! In this episode, the group dives deep into discussion on topics ranging from death anxiety, Matt's ADHD, Catholic mindfulness, Fr. Sam's experience in Mentorship, and how Dr. Greg was able to publish the early plays of Pope St. John Paul II.

Discussed in the episode:

• Fr. Sam's comparison of the sacrament of confession and Mentorship;

• IDDM as more personal and requiring more vulnerability than regular therapy despite being a voice-only modality;

• The spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola;

• Overview of the CPMAP and Dr. Greg's business "plan";

• How do I follow the Holy Spirit if paying attention is intrinsically hard?

• Misconceptions about mindfulness and what paying attention actually looks like;

• The goal of Catholic Mindfulness and how it differs from the Buddhist notion of mindfulness;

• How death anxiety is at the root of every defense mechanism, personality disorder, and negative psychological experience;

• The resurrection of the body as the antidote and solution to our deepest fear;

• The importance of becoming aware of your interior life without judgement;

• Overview of Pope St. John Paul II's personalism and what it means to "become who you are."

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• The Tangent w/ Fr. Sam Kachuba - a podcast by Veritas;

• Setting the Stage: Early Plays of St. John Paul II;

• Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat;

• Being Human Episode 119: The Trouble with TikTok;

• Books by Dr. Greg: The Mindful Catholic, Consecration to Jesus Through St. Joseph, and Sitting Like a Saint;

• Need help? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

• Join the waitlist to be notified about our next Open House to learn more about the new CPMAP certification!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Episode 125 of the Being Human Podcast: Following the Holy Spirit, Theology of the Body, CatholicPsych…and Other Tangents: An Interview w/ Dr. Greg (Part 1)

In this week's episode, Dr. Greg goes on a tangent (lots of them actually)! As a recent guest on his pastor's podcast, The Tangent with Fr. Sam Kachuba, Dr. Greg shared his thoughts about the field of psychology, why integration is important, what we can learn from brain research, and much more. Here's part one of the re-published conversation with Fr. Sam Kachuba and co-host Matt Sperrazza!

Discussed in the episode:

• Do people rooted in their faith tend to avoid therapy?

• The need to balance incorporating one's faith into therapy while also avoiding over-spiritualization of issues;

• Resistance that happens when your therapist's beliefs don't align with your own;

• The path toward perfection as being in and through our humanity;

• The integrated, incarnational way to approach problems (you are your body, but you are not JUST your body);

• What is a telomere (and what can it tell us about the faith)?

• Why integrating scientific research into an understanding of psychology can help us in how we live out the Catholic faith;

• The history of the CatholicPsych Institute and the development of IDDM.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• The Tangent w/ Fr. Sam Kachuba podcast;

• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis;

• Books by Dr. Greg: The Mindful Catholic, Consecration to Jesus Through St. Joseph, and Sitting Like a Saint;

• Need help? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

• Join the waitlist to be notified about our next Open House to learn more about the new CPMAP certification!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Episode 124 of the Being Human Podcast: A Letter to Catholic Mental Health Professionals It's time to clear the air! In this episode, Dr. Greg extends a peace offering while sharing a heartfelt message with Catholic mental health professionals.

Discussed in this episode:

• A mea culpa from Dr. Greg;

• Why it's important to acknowledge the morally questionable developments in the field of secular psychology in order to determine a way forward for Catholic professionals;

• Isolation and loneliness as one of the many challenges that mental health professionals encounter in their field;

• The siloing effect that happens in ministry and mental health care and the importance of maintaining connection and collaboration with one another;

• Recognition that more support is something Catholic mental health professionals are in need of;

• Dr. Greg's desire to nurture deep engagement and conversation around an approach to Catholic mental health care;

• What's needed to build a truly Catholic approach to psychology;

• Faith, reason, and science as three parts of a whole that bring us to the truth about the human person;

• A call for older Catholic professionals in the field of psychology to acknowledge recent developments that have made it difficult for younger generations to pursue a career in mental health;

• Dr. Greg's goal of providing aid and support to all Catholics in vocations or careers in which they are bearing the emotional burdens of others.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Past Being Human Episodes:

• Episode 123: Fake Science and Real Compassion;

• Episode 122: There Is No Real Marriage Therapy;

• Episode 121: How the APA is Schizophrenic;

• Episode 81: The Lies of the American Psychological Association;

• Episode 72: The DSM Disease (Part One);

• Catholic Psychotherapy Association;

• Join the waitlist to be notified about our next Open House to learn more about the new CPMAP certification!

• Need help? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Episode 123 of the Being Human Podcast: Fake Science and Real Compassion In this week's episode, Dr. Greg is launching grenades at organizational evils in the field of secular psychology! In it, he outlines the need for both philosophy and science in discovering objective truth while also reminding us all about the importance of compassion and mercy towards individual persons. Discussed in this episode:

• Who gets to decide what is defined as ordered for the human person?

• The error of secular culture's ascribing the fullness of truth as that which comes through science;

• The role of philosophy in arriving at objective truth;

• Why we need both reason and faith to arrive at eternal, immaterial and invisible truths;

• The APA as a political, pseudo-scientific organization fueled by cultural sentiment;

• The lack of objectivity in the social sciences;

• Rejecting state-defined paths and modalities as the only way to help those who are suffering from mental health burdens;

• The core distinction between a Catholic worldview vs. a secular worldview;

• How the courage to decry organizational evils needs to be balanced with a recognition and reverence for the dignity and goodness of the individual person;

• The call of Christians to stand up for truth, even to the point of death, while remaining loving until the end.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Past Being Human Podcast Episodes:

• Episode 121: How the APA is Schizophrenic;

• Episode 81: The Lies of the American Psychological Association;

• Episode 72: The DSM Disease (Part One);

• What Is A Woman? documentary by Matt Walsh;

• Join the waitlist to be notified about our next Open House to learn more about the new CPMAP certification!

• Need help? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Episode 122 of the Being Human Podcast: There Is No Real Marriage Therapy

On this week's podcast, Dr. Greg continues to uncover issues in the secular field of psychology by breaking open ways that marriage therapy as it exists today lacks what is necessary to truly support married couples. First on the list? Lack of a proper understanding of marriage.

Discussed in this episode:

• The purpose of marriage;

• How all "marriage therapy" research, publications, modalities, and techniques are not actually focused on marriage;

• The lack of understanding about what it means to be a man or woman made in God's image in a vocation leading to union with Him;

• What's missing from Relationship Enhancement Therapy, Gottman Institute research, and Imago Institute theory;

• Catholic magisterial teaching on marriage vs. misinformation commonly taught;

• What does it mean that through marriage we're called to become saints?

• How errors in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas related to women have impacted our understanding of gender roles;

• The current demonization of masculinity as a retaliation against the demonization of women in the past;

• The importance of the complementarity between men and women in marriage;

• What does a truly Catholic marriage therapy look like?

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Register for our upcoming Open House to learn more about the new CPMAP certification!

• Church documents referenced:

• Mulieris Dignitatum by Pope St. John Paul II

• Amoris Laetitia by Pope Francis

• Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World, by Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

• The Theology of the Body by Pope St. John Paul II

• Sections of the Summa Theologiae referenced:

• The production of the woman (Prima Pars, Q. 92)

• The vices opposed to perseverance (Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 138)

• Episode #96: Yes, I Was Wrong (Dialectic w/ Brian Butler);

• Episode #75: Gender Fluidity or Complementarity (part one of a four-part series);

• The Gottman Institute, Imago Relationship Therapy, Relationship Enhancement Model;

• Need help? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Episode 121 of the Being Human Podcast: How the APA is Schizophrenic

This week, Dr. Greg blasts the APA and reveals how, through their promotion of moral relativism in the secular field of psychology, they are causing confusion and chaos.

Discussed in this episode:

• How the diagnostic system of the mental health field is at the forefront of the push towards radical moral relativism;

• The problem with Catholic mental health practitioners participating in a system that does not have a true understanding of what it is to be human;

• The implications of homosexuality being removed from the DSM in 1980;

• The need to be bold in calling out ideas misaligned with the Faith while also remaining charitable towards the persons engaged in conversation;

• How the acceptance of a definition of being human grounded on moral relativism and absent of objective, transcendent truth is harming our culture;

• Schizophrenia as a diagnosis of detachment from reality;

• The impact of parental mental illness on a child;

• The contradiction between supporting embodiment while also promoting transgenderism as healthy;

• Speaking the truth as the most compassionate response.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Register for our upcoming, free Open House!

• Learn more about the CPMAP Certification Program;

• Being Human Episode #72: The DSM Disease (Part One);

• Being Human Episode #81: The Lies of the American Psychological Association;

• Check out Dr. Peter Attia's website;

• Need help? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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Welcome to Episode 120 of the Being Human Podcast: Leading with Vulnerability: A Visit w/ Fr. Louis Merosne

Dr. Greg sits down with long-time friend Fr. Louis Merosne for an engaging conversation focused around vulnerability, friendship, the importance of authenticity and finding strength in our weaknesses. Fr. Louis also shares his experience of being in Mentorship and going through the CPMAP Certification program.

Discussed in this episode:

• What are the hallmarks of true friendship?

• Love as the necessary environment for transformation;

• The issue with the lack of personal relationship and accompaniment in education;

• The infinite mystery and depth of a human person;

• The dangers of being inauthentic and lacking in vulnerability when preparing for a vocation as a priest or mental health professional;

• Fr. Louis' reflections on his experience as a CPMAP Certification student and of being in Mentorship;

• Advice to seminarians about the value of authenticity and honesty in discernment;

• The power of leading with vulnerability and imperfections;

• The meaning of a corrective emotional experience;

• The process of learning to receive as a way to be able to keep giving;

• A Mentors' role in being the face of the unconditional love of God to those with whom they are working.

Resources mentioned or relevant:

• Register for our upcoming Open House!

• More about the CPMAP Certification Program;

• USCCB Program of Priestly Formation;

• Need help? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call with someone on our team to discuss how we can support you;

• Learn about IDDM (Mentorship), our new model of accompaniment;

• Sign up for Being Human, our weekly newsletter, to stay up to date on the exciting developments at CatholicPsych;

• Visit our website to read the CatholicPsych blog, shop in the CatholicPsych bookshop, or discover other resources we have available;

• Download The Integrated App for access to free audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, courses, prayer resources, and more;

• Become a member of the Integrated Life Community to get access to every course Dr. Greg has created, plus the opportunity to participate in Integrated LIVE's - weekly, Mentor hosted Q&As covering topics like boundaries, communication, trauma, forgiveness, and more!

Contact us! Have a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address on the podcast? Want to give some feedback about this episode? Email us at [email protected] - we would love to hear from you!

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