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Healing the Unresolved — 152 episodes
Surprised by the Love of God
The Stewardship of Having Children
The Safe Presence of Self in the Spiritual Life
The Great Doubter: Religious Scrupulosity OCD
Surviving an Enmeshed Family
The Robbery of Rescuing
The Empty Tomb Apology
EFT Tapping: Friend or Foe?
Growing Our Mustard Seed Moments
To Parent or Not to Parent
A Deeper Confession: Combining the Healing Work and Repentance
Be Wise as a Serpent: Spotting Unhealthy Systems
An Encounter with the Holy Spirit is a Test of Patience
Somatic Experiencing Therapy: Is it Spiritually Safe?
Where we Begin and Leave off: Awareness of Spiritual Boundaries
A Most Beautiful Inheritance: Simple Grief
Self-Abandonment vs Self-Denial
The Courage to Try Again
Humility and Healing: A Beautiful Synergy
Seeing Blessings: Expanding our Perception Box
When Unspoken Fears Define our Lives
When our Spouse doesn’t want Faith or Healing
A Healing Fast: Giving up Trauma Responses for Lent
When Fear of Rejection becomes Self-Rejection
The Hidden Temptations of the Prodigal Son
When we Retreat to Familiar Territory
Is it okay to pray for healing?
Finding Normal Again after Trauma
He Knows: Our Struggle to Perceive God’s Love
A New Year’s Audit of our Life
Self-Abandonment: The Door to Despondency and Despair
Syncing up our Chronological Age and Emotional Age
The Synergy between Self-Denial and Self-Acceptance
Family Visits: To Go or Not to Go
Revealing Secrets: Turning Darkness to Light
Yearnings: Blessings or Hindrances to Salvation?
When Despondency becomes Sensual
When we Become Emotional Lint Brushes
Photos for Another Time
Growing Mercy in the Healing Work
It Takes Two: Parishioner-Parish Relationship Health
Turning the Page Towards A Peaceful Passing
Staying Balanced in the Face of Imbalance
Exercising our Free Will’s Healing Power
When it’s Okay to Leave
An Inheritance We didn’t ask For: Understanding Epigenetics
When our Body Speaks a Story we do not Understand
Friendships: An Endangered Species
Praying for One who Committed Suicide
Grace and Struggle can Coexist
When Home Keeps Calling: Reversing Emotional Muscle Memory
When the Opposite Gender becomes Unsafe
Healthy Accountability in a Parish Setting
When the Self is a Passage to Selflessness
Parenting our Kids towards Dignity
Finding Strength in the Humble Places
Waiting for the Perfect Life
Asperger’s and Orthodox: Now What?
When Need for Control makes us Out of Control
When Friendship is Elusive
Walking out of the Prison of Self-Blame
The Healing Work: Our Cross and Inner Ascetic
When I Don’t Trust Myself to Talk
When we Feel Like a Stray Human
When the Monastic Path is not Linear
Rediscovering God‘s easy Yoke in the Wake of Trauma
When Confession Feels Unsafe
A Hard Earned Peace
Does the Body need closure?
Accepting the Sunshine After the Storm
When Goodbyes Hurt Too Much
Having a Balanced Spirit
Disenfranchised Grief: Finding the Beginning and the End
Do I have to go?: Healthy Avoidance vs Unhealthy Avoidance
When We Outheal our Friends
Empathy: The Oil and Wine of Today
How much to focus on the present or the past?
Gratitude, Self-Acceptance, and Peace
Trying to be Good Enough: When we tread Water for Life
It Takes Two: When A Cross Needs to be Carried by both in the Marriage
Honoring Thy Mother and Father in the Wake of Family Pain
Faithful unto Death: When Children Bear the Guilt of their Parents
Protecting Ourselves when Others want us Weak
Narcissism: Spotting the Great Deceiver
The Great Escape: Living a New Narrative and Leaving the Past Behind
The Transfiguration of Trauma
Finding and Resolving our Hidden Story
When Envy Consumes Us
When being Rejected is a Victory
Setting Boundaries as the Start of Forgiveness
Accepting the Life God has given Us
A Child in Adult Clothing: Resolving Age Regression
Learning to Use the Magnification of Our Mind's Eye
When fear of abandonment threatens our relationships
When Our Growth Threatens our Spouse
Depression as a Sign of Health
What the Resurrection Teaches us about the Healing of Trauma
Knowing Our Attachment Style and Bringing Stability to our Ourselves and Relationships
When Hidden Anger Speaks in the Present: Learning to Know that Life is not that Bad
I thought it was Love: Dealing with the Pain of Trauma Bonding
When Running from Ourselves Makes Us Feel like We've Regressed
Confronting our Inner Jonah: Facing the Healing Work, Time, and Age
When the Past Causes us to See our Spouse as Unsafe
When our Parish Work Makes us Resentful: Discovering and Resolving its Origins
Forgiving the Departed: They’ve Been There all Along
Finding our Courage in the Face of Conflict
The Healing Power of the Divine Liturgy
When We didn’t Know Normal: Overcoming this Hidden Source of Chronic Doubt
Breaking Orbit: Healing from Giving Up our Identity for Another
Caught between Two Families: Which one do I parent?
Parenting from Afar: When our Adult Children get Stuck
When People Disappoint: Staying Balanced and Maintaining the Relationship
Embracing the Opportunity of Perceived Setbacks in the Healing Work.
The Nativity X-Ray of our Soul
The Robber of Gratitude and all that is Good: Identifying and Resolving Hypervigilance.
Letting Go of Avoidance: Bringing the Present and Future back Online
Healing When we are Alone in Sickness
Healing Work during the Nativity Light: Mending Relationships with both the Living and the Departed.
Silver Linings: When Pain Transfigures into Gifts
The Temptation of Busyness: Learning to Regain Control
Complicated Grief: Grieving the Unfilled Parental Relationship
Memory Makers: Don’t be the Jenga block
Turning off the Song of the Past so I can more Effectively Discern the Present
Navigating an Abusive Parent: Knowing When We Have Done Enough
When Life Doesn’t Cooperate: Addressing Trauma’s Unrealistic Expectations
Chasing our Fathers: Knowing when to Stop Seeking the Missing Parts of our Parents in Others
Taking the Blame: Spiritual Medicine or Spiritual Harm?
The Life I Could Have Had: Navigating the “If Only’s”
Seeking Answers from God: Navigating the Pain of a Stillbirth
When Trauma or Past Pain Affects Our Prayer Life
The Trauma of Infidelity: Knowing when Time and Talking are not Enough
Navigating the Quiet Aftermath
Bringing God into our Healing Work: A Prayer and Activity
Finding Acceptance: Rooting Out the Most Destructive of Beliefs
Over-Control: Finding Our Way Out
Dignity: A companion of humility and necessity in the healing work
Anxiety: Is it our protective Ally or our Foe?
When the Past Prevents Us from Living Out Our Faith
The Strained Sibling Relationship: Knowing When a Rescue Mission to the Past is Needed
Finding God and Ourselves: Navigating the Emotional Space between Anger and Happiness
Tolerating uncomfortable emotions in the present
When Movies Resonate: Seeing our Pain in another’s Story
Navigating Painful Parish Experiences
Wielding Forgiveness
When the Calendar Hurts: Navigating the Anniversary Effect
Sharing our Story, Safety, and Real Forgiveness
The Healing Work as a valuable part of the Praxis of our Faith
Tricking grief, rooting out shame, and a healing paradigm
Self-denial and self-acceptance: a peaceful and necessary coexistence
When the Past Reappears
Holding on to Hope
Dealing with Trauma