Interior Integration for Catholics
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Interior Integration for Catholics
The mission of this podcast is the formation of your heart in love and for love, Together, we shore up the natural, human foundation for your spiritual formation as a Catholic. St. Thomas Aquinas asserts that without this inner unity, without this interior integration, without ordered self-love, yo...
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175 IFS, Parts Work, Vatican II, and Your Conscience
“Man is divided within himself.” So says the Vatican II document Gaudium et Spes. Sins – original sin, the sins of others, and your own personal sin...

174 Richard Schwartz and IFS Meet St. Thomas Aquinas
We explore the surprising compatibility of Internal Family Systems with a Thomistic understanding of the human person. The modern pioneer of parts wor...

173 Aristotle and Aquinas on Proper Self-Love
How do we love with the three loves in the two Great Commandments? And what are the relationships among love of God, love of neighbor, and love of se...

172 Questions About Catholicism and Parts Work Answered
We have answers to your questions about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Catholicism. From the experts. That’s what this episode is all about. Dr....

171 Know Thyself, Love Thyself, Govern Thyself: Socrates and Plato Discuss Parts Work
Both Socrates and Plato were deeply concerned with the questions 1) Who is the human person? and 2) How does one flourish in living the best life poss...

170 St. Bonaventure Anticipates Catholic Parts Work
Q: What can St. Bonaventure teach us about our inner life? A: More than you might imagine. Writing in the 13th century, St. Bonaventure emphasized the...

169 St. Maximus the Confessor and Catholic Parts Work
Q: Did St. Maximus anticipate Internal Family Systems thinking by 13 centuries? A: In a word, Yes. Maximus, writing in the seventh century, describe...

168 Restless Hearts: St. Augustine and Catholic Parts Work
You can think of St. Augustine’s heart as an “open book” titled “Confessions.” In this episode, we go deep into his restless heart, sharing with you h...

167 Early Church Fathers and Catholic Parts Work
What can the Early Church Fathers teach us about our inner worlds, the complexity of our psyches? Actually, very much, if we are willing to listen. ...

166 Can IFS and Parts Work Be Catholic? Listening to Scripture
Internal Family Systems is extremely popular not only as a therapy model, but as a way of making sense of our inner experience. IFS does not have spe...

165 Your Questions About IFS and Catholicism Answered
You have got questions, we have answers – all about IFS and parts work, Catholic style. Join Marion Moreland, David Edwards, Bridget Adams, and Dr. Pe...

164 What are Internal Systems in Catholic Parts Work?
Question: What do improvisational jazz bands, 8-man rowing shells, the Catholic Church, and a nuclear family all have in common? Answer: They are all...

163 You Are One and Many: Unity, Multiplicity, and Internal Systems
Fearfully and wonderfully made – that is what you are. And made not just as a single, homogeneous personality – but as a system. But what is a syste...

162 Your Body and Your Parts
“The body remembers what the mind forgets,” psychiatrist Jacob Levy Moreno tells us. And Bessel van der Kolk takes it a step further – the body not o...

161 Integrity: That You Be One Inside
Survival. Importance. Agency. Goodness. Mission. Authentic expression. These are the six integrity needs that Dr. Peter came up with over decades...

160 Your Parts Have These Six Attachment Needs
Feeling safe. Feeling seen and heard. Feeling reassured, soothed. Feeling cherished and delighted in. Feeling loved. Feeling that I belong. We all hav...

159 Who Are My Parts and Why Do They Battle Within Me?
Dr. Gerry Crete helps us unravel the confusion within us, why we have such deep internal conflicts and tensions that pull us in different directions a...

158 Who is Your Inmost Self?
Who are you, deep inside, at the core of your being? Who lives in the inmost chamber of your personhood? Join us on an adventure to discover your co...

157 Overview of Internal Family Systems -- Catholic Style
We offer you a new and better way of understanding yourself and others – Internal Family Systems (IFS). But what is IFS? What are “parts”? Who are...

156 Attachment, Love, God, and Parts: Q&A with Dr. Peter Martin
Real people, real questions. Parts, attachment, human formation, marriage, conscience, intimacy with God, connection with your innermost self… Dr. P...

155 You Evangelizing You – “Internal Evangelization”
You loving you. You bringing each of your parts closer to God, in a gentle, merciful way. Dr. Peter Martin shares his insights on how we can love ou...

154 Attachment and Learning How to Love with Dr. Peter Martin
Attachment needs, problematic God images, parts, systems, love, and security – no one brings these together quite like seasoned Catholic psychologist...

153 The ARRR Prayer and Integrated Human Formation with Fr. John Horn
“Lord, teach us to pray,” the apostles entreated Jesus. And He did. In this episode, we explore the integration of personal formation in prayer, with...

152 Internal Family Systems Demonstrations Part II with Marion Moreland
For another take on Catholic parts work look like in action, join Marion Moreland as she accompanies Caris in connecting, understanding, and loving Ca...

151 Catholic Parts Work: IFS Demonstrations with Dr. Peter
What does Catholic parts work look like in action? Join Dr. Peter as he accompanies David and Ian as they connect with not only their manager parts bu...

150 Money, Personal Formation, and WalletWin Coaching
Jonathan Teixeira shares how 2000 years of Catholic wisdom on money can inform how you react to, respond to, and manage your financial issues. He dive...

149 The Integration of Personal Formation in NET Ministries with Pete Burds
Pete Burds, vice president of mission at NET joins us to help explore and understand human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral formation of the 18-...

148 The Integration of Personal Formation at Franciscan University
Fr. Dave Pivonka TOR, president of Franciscan University joins us to discuss the integration of personal formation for college students. We address t...

147 Exodus 90: The Integration of Personal Formation with Dr. Jared Staudt
Join Dr. Jared Staudt, the Director of Content at Exodus 90 and guest host Dr. Gerry Crete to discuss the integration of personal formation in Exodus....

146 Restored: Personal Formation for Teen and Young Adult Children of Divorce with Joey Pontarelli
Joey Pontarelli joins guest host Dr. Gerry Crete to share the impact of his parents’ divorce on him as a child, the ways that divorce rocked his world...

145 Dr. Edward Sri on Personal Formation and FOCUS
Dr. Edward Sri, Catholic theologian co-founder of FOCUS shares with us the origin story, how young Catholic adults are starving for love and truth. He...

144 Jason Evert, Chastity.com, and the Integration of Formation
Jason Evert of the Chastity Project joins Dr. Gerry and me to discuss the integration of personal formation and chastity. We begin this episode with a...

143 Fr. Mike Schmitz, Sr. Josephine Garrett, and Archbishop Cordileone on Personal Formation
Fr. Mike Schmitz, Sr. Josephine Garret, and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone engage us in discussing integrated personal formation at the National Euch...

142 Your Story and Your Personal Formation
Dr. Peter Malinoski shares some dark moments of his story of medical trauma from when he was 11 years old in 1980 with Kathryn Wessling and Gabriel Cr...

141 Integrated Personal Formation at the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress
Tim Glemkowski and Joel Stepanek, key planners and executives for the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress, join Dr. Peter Malinoski on this episode to...

140 Your Personal Formation: Experiential Exercises and Q&A
Join Dr. Peter and our audience members to experience a guided meditation on your parts’ needs for integrated formation. Guided by John Paul II’s four...

139 Personal Formation with Dr. Bob Schuchts
Our guest, Dr. Bob Schuchts, shares with us his decades of experience as a healer through his discussion of his four identities of love, the four dime...

138 Personal Formation with Jake Khym: Restore the Glory and Life Restoration
Catholic thought leader, human formation specialist, and podcaster Jake Khym has more than 20 years of experience in a wide variety of ministry settin...

137 Live Q&A with Fr. Boniface Hicks on Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation
Fr. Boniface Hicks joins us once again as we continue our series on integrated personal formation, this time with a Q&A from our live audience. Fr. Bo...

136 Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation with Fr. Boniface Hicks
What makes good spiritual direction? What makes good spiritual directors? And what gets in the way in spiritual direction? To answers these questio...