Sarah and Taylor conclude not only their reflection on pride but the whole deadly sins season in this final episode on the twelve steps of humility. This episode includes an emotion that sounds like a Harry Potter spell, commitments to the bit and their consequences, and, perhaps too much, ready laughter. This episode marks the end of our second season. We’ll be back in the future with our third season and more psychoanalytic and monastic reflections on contemporary life! We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Taylor and Sarah begin the end of our season of the vices with a reflection on the special sin of pride, exploring the themes of exception, finitude, and idolatry. This episode includes a distracted Walt Whitman quoter, a sadboi Church Father, and a cheese-hungry songwriter. We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Sarah and Taylor conclude their discussion of envy by exploring its counter virtue: gratitude—an emotional response to the meeting of a need with no strings attached. This episode includes transcontinental communication, an envious doc who struggles with trainwrecks, and a fast talking mother daughter duo. (“Why did you drop out of Yale?!”) We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Taylor and Sarah continue their discussion of envy delving deep into psychoanalytic theory to explore how our earliest relationships, and our dependency on them, create the conditions for envy later on in life. This episode includes itches being scratched, existential infants, and peacocking. We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Sarah and Taylor begin their discussion of envy by exploring how the early Christian tradition understood this vice and distinguished it from jealousy and covetousness. This episode includes a series of bad jokes, Sarah’s new BMW, and delight in knocking another person down a peg. We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Taylor and Sarah conclude their discussion of vainglory by identifying the narcissistic needs we all have and sharing practices to help cultivate the counter virtue of humility. This episode includes pies and cheesecakes, British punk bands, and a reference to a misunderstood green witch. We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Sarah and Taylor begin their exploration of the complexities of the vice of vainglory—a vice most tempting for the holiest among us—and its connection to the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism. This episode includes AMRAPs, EMOMs, and WODs as well as hotdog loving interviewees and Augustinian locker room talk.  We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Taylor and Sarah conclude their discussion of acedia with an exploration of the psychoanalytic concept of resistance and the promotion of the counter-virtue of perseverance. This episode includes wannabe standup comedians, the fantasy of homesteading, and ogres? Also there might be a Marvel-style end credit if you stay to the end. ;) We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Sarah and Taylor begin their discussion of acedia with an analysis of listlessness, restlessness, and sadness as the noonday demon tempts us to act or not act in order to avoid spiritual work. This episode includes international fan mail, FOMO! in the Monastery, and pink buckets of KFC chicken. We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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Taylor and Sarah give us something different with this episode—our first ever interview with Jeremy Arnold as he shares his move from pastoral ministry to psychotherapy. This episode includes the heart-wrenching tale of the sale of an emotional support dog, the worst improv ever, and the power of asking “why not?” We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please send us an email at [email protected]  

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