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**Being Human**

At the CatholicPsych Institute, we’re doing something new when it comes to therapy. In the Being Human podcast, Dr. Greg Bottaro, Founder and Director of the CatholicPsych Institute, shares with you his vision for Catholic therapy and a revolutionary approach that is focused, finally, on what it means to be human.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 20: A Look at Trauma (Mental Health Awareness Series, Part 1) May 04, 2021

Show notes

In this episode, we talk about:

How the framework for looking at trauma can help us understand ourselves
Understanding trauma in light of the many facets of the human person
How trauma can affect our relationship with the present
Noticing how trauma limits our faculties (to see the bigger picture, to have empathy, etc.)
What it means that Christ makes all things "new"
Why memory matters in healing

Resources mentioned or relevant:

Revelations 21:5
The Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat
Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Episode 19: Is It Your Parents' Fault? Apr 27, 2021

Show notes

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

Resources mentioned or relevant:

1 John 4:19
The Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat;
Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

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Episode 18: Should You Just "Pray More"? Apr 20, 2021

Show notes

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

Resources mentioned or relevant:

The Mindful Catholic book
The Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat;
Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Episode 17: Boundaries and Safety Apr 13, 2021

Show notes

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

Resources mentioned or relevant:

Matthew 16:24-26
The Mindful Catholic book
The Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat;
Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Episode 16: Changing How You Feel Apr 06, 2021

Show notes

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
The freedom of being able to say "I don't have to feel this way."

Resources mentioned or relevant:

The Mindful Catholic book
The Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat;
Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Rate, review, and subscribe

Please help us in our mission to integrate the Faith with Psychology by hitting subscribe and also sharing this podcast with your friends.

Please consider rating or leaving a review of our show. It helps us reach other Catholics just like you who want to become more integrated, whole, and happy human beings.

For Apple podcasts, click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate 5 stars, and choose "write a review". Then type your sincere thoughts about the show!

If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any episodes. Subscribe to the podcast now!

Episode 15: Getting the Full Set of Tools Mar 30, 2021

Show notes

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

Resources mentioned or relevant:

LETTER TO THE BISHOPS of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World – Pope Benedict XVI
Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Episode 14: Five Qualities of the Feminine Genius Mar 23, 2021

Show notes

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

Resources mentioned or relevant:

LETTER TO THE BISHOPS of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World – Pope Benedict XVI
Mulieris Dignitatem – Pope St. John Paul II
Unleash the Power of the Female Brain - Dr. Daniel G. Amen
Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Rate, review, and subscribe

Please help us in our mission to integrate the Faith with Psychology by hitting subscribe and also sharing this podcast with your friends.

Please consider rating or leaving a review of our show. It helps us reach other Catholics just like you who want to become more integrated, whole, and happy human beings.

For Apple podcasts, click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate 5 stars, and choose "write a review". Then type your sincere thoughts about the show!

If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any episodes. Subscribe to the podcast now!

Episode 13: St. Joseph's Masculine Genius Mar 16, 2021

Show notes

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)

St Joseph

Men have more testosterone, more intra-hemispheric neural connectivity, less progesterone, and less cross-hemispheric neural connectivity

St. Joseph was a man of:

Courage
1. Requires aggression, lower consideration of immediate consequences;
2. Sometimes held in suspicion, especially when used without prudence
3. (Takes out anger on loved ones; speaks badly about neighbors and co-workers even family or friends)
1. Requires structured time and processing, sometimes less time with people, and sense of duty that isn't connected to immediate relational value
2. Sometimes laziness and lack of connection lead to isolation
3. (Reckless waste of time; video games, partying, endless hobbies and projects around house)
Prayer
1. Requires courage to not be in charge
2. Distortion of this leads to weakness, lack of leadership, giving in to immediate gratification
3. (Can't recognize need to worship God, acts as if he's the god of his own life)
Obedience
1. Requires structured order on when to be aggressive and when to die to self
2. Distortion again is weakness
3. (Can't stand up for what's right, poor example of self-care, hygiene, drive and discipline)
Gentleness
1. Recognizes the gift of serving and whom he serves; holds duty in high regard
2. Distortion is to give emphasis to the wrong things to reverence at the expense of whom he is actually called to reverence.
3. (Enmeshment, cares more about other people's approval than his own stewardship of what he's truly given charge over; pays more attention to other women or other endeavors that might be worthy in themselves but not for him)
Reverence
1. Hold the big picture of the family as contrasted from the immediate family
2. Can be distorted by misaligning allegiances and imbalance of devotion and attention
3. (Too much obedience to family of origin)
Tradition
1. Purposeful discernment that weighs all aspects of situation both subjective and objective; sometimes detached from particular relationships to ultimately serve in the bigger picture
2. Can be distorted by selfish garnering of approval or lack of discernment
3. (Stubborn men who are using willfulness to steamroll over spouse and family)
Intention

Resources mentioned or relevant:

On the Masculine Genius (article for Humanum Review)
The Male Brain and The Female Brain by Dr. Louann Brizendine
Redemptoris Custos (Guardian of the Redeemer) - apostolic exhortation from Pope St. John Paul II
Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Rate, review, and subscribe

Please help us in our mission to integrate the Faith with Psychology by hitting subscribe and also sharing this podcast with your friends.

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If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any episodes. Subscribe to the podcast now!

Episode 12: Different by Design Mar 09, 2021

Show notes

In this episode, we talk about:

The complementarity of the masculine feminine genius
The reverence we owe to each other
Jesus and Mary as examples of masculine and feminine

Resources mentioned or relevant:

Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Rate, review, and subscribe

Please help us in our mission to integrate the Faith with Psychology by hitting subscribe and also sharing this podcast with your friends.

Please consider rating or leaving a review of our show. It helps us reach other Catholics just like you who want to become more integrated, whole, and happy human beings.

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If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any episodes. Subscribe to the podcast now!

Episode 11: Needing a Mom and Dad Mar 02, 2021

Show notes

In this episode, we talk about:

The family as the "school of love"
Learning 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

Resources mentioned or relevant:

Download The Integrated App for access to audio exercises, the Catholic Mindfulness Virtual Retreat, and more;
Consecration to Jesus through St. Joseph;
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Being Human, to keep up with all the exciting things happening at CatholicPsych.
To find out how Dr. Greg's team can help you, click here.
To read the CatholicPsych blog, click here.
For resources from the CatholicPsych Institute, click here.

If there is a topic or a question you would like Dr. Greg to address, please email your request to beinghuman@catholicpsych.com! We would love to hear from you.

Rate, review, and subscribe

Please help us in our mission to integrate the Faith with Psychology by hitting subscribe and also sharing this podcast with your friends.

Please consider rating or leaving a review of our show. It helps us reach other Catholics just like you who want to become more integrated, whole, and happy human beings.

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If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any episodes. Subscribe to the podcast now!

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