Catholic Evangelista, Sonja Corbitt
Sonja Corbitt, known as the Catholic Evangelista, hosts this podcast that helps listeners hear and experience God, guard their peace, love with boundaries, and heal deeply. The show offers spiritual guidance and practical advice for living a faith-filled life.
Episodes
Ep 05 #553 Why love feels unavailable
Because it is.
The people you're trying to get love from are wounded, just like you. But the problem is not that you're not loved. It's that you're expending creative energy desperately grasping at it.
Wounded love is the root of self-medication and other toxic behaviors and relationships. But even in the best relationships - such as with God Himself - others feel distant, often when we need them
Ep 04 #552 Undoing Inner Masculine & Feminine Knots – Dreams Series
So he's "just like your father"?
What if he's supposed to be, so you and the Holy Spirit can work out your issues together?
And what if you're "just like" your mother?
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In this episode we're talking about undoing inner masculine and feminine knots. I'll show you how the Holy Spirit uses pop quizzes, Scripture, and dream symbols to help us integrate two powerful, often conflicting, masculine and f
Ep 03 #551 How to Integrate Inner Opposites to Heal Self-medication
"Sin will have no dominion over you" (Rom 6:14). Do you believe this?
This episode is a two-month “road trip” through biblical and psychological archetypes in dreams and Scripture in January and February's daily Catholic readings.
I show you how God has been speaking on the dangers and dualities of unintegrated inner father/mother and male/female (animus/anima).
I illustrate how He is also speak
Ep 2 #550 Dream Symbols & Archetypes
What if your dreams are speaking in the language of the Bible, because the Bible speaks in the language of dreams?
Dreams aren’t random noise. They’re self-knowledge rising from your subconscious through symbolic language. Dreams speak in symbols because some truths can't be reached by logic alone. And with Scripture and prayer, they can reveal truths for growth, healing, and deeper authenticity i
Ep 1 #549 DREAMS: Why Your Dreams Aren’t Sinful (and Might Be Sacred)
Ever wake up disturbed by a dream and wonder, What does this say about me—or my faith?
The Church has an answer, and it’s wiser than you think. From Aquinas to Augustine, from Joseph the Dreamer to Pope Francis, Catholic tradition teaches that dreams are involuntary, symbolic, and morally neutral—not sins, not prophecies on demand, but invitations to understanding. “Interpretation belongs to God”
Ep 02 #548 Get to the root with Confession, ‘Tis the Season
If you’re already in spiraling self-medication mode, this episode is your rescue plan.
Continually confessing “I drank too much," "I yelled,” or “I ate the whole pie” will never fix what’s really broken. Using real-life examples and Scripture, I'll walk you straight past the surface symptoms to the root your holiday triggers are screaming about: wounded love showing up in fear, control, unforgiven
Ep 01 #547 ‘Tis the Season! Boundaries that save the holidays
If the mere thought of Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s gatherings already has your stomach in knots, your heart racing, or your temper flaring weeks in advance—this episode is your lifeline.
We're kicking off a brand-new holiday survival series, Tis the Season, with the one thing that actually works when family triggers, old wounds, and impossible expectations threaten to steal your peace:
Ep 08 #546 Free to play! God “wants” you to play?
What if He *made* you to do the stuff that feels the most like play to you?
What’s holding you back from "playing" - living fully alive? In this series finale, we wrap up Free Indeed with the ultimate freedom: play as God’s child.
From Peter’s recommissioning, to pop quizzes, to healing from fear, discover how God's divine judgment isn’t wrath—it’s gentle transformation. Break free from scruples,
Ep 07 #545 Freedom from Fear of Deprivation: Why is God “late” on purpose?
Wondering how to turn life’s dry seasons into growth?
Through Sonja’s story of (what seemed like) a shattered ministry promise, church splits, and learning to rest amid fear, discover how pop quizzes expose the roots of your fear, how to silence complaints and multiply provision with thanksgiving, and why “God is late on purpose” in a crisis of faith.
This seventh episode of Free Indeed: "Thrive i
Ep 06 #544 Freedom from Fear of Purgatory: Was everything you learned about purgatory wrong?
Is purgatory a place or a Person? Afraid of suffering and purification?
Be free from the fear of God's punishment and delve into the mysteries of sanctification with me in this episode of our series on Christian freedom.
Discover purgatory not as a fiery torture chamber of punishment, but as God's purifying love, as I share how our Heavenly Father healed me from a rage-fueled father wound in this
Ep 05 #543 Freedom from Fear of Death: Reincarnation? Pre-existing souls? Why do we die? What happens after?
Should we fear death? Why do we?"Memento Mori" is the ancient practice of remembering death, and how Christ’s resurrection turns it into a hopeful transition (Phil 1:21, "to die is gain"). Probe the mystery of Jesus’ descent to the dead, the Church’s teachings on near-death experiences, reincarnation, pre-existing souls, and a cautious perspective on psychedelics, marrying centuries of timeless wi
Ep 04 #542 Freedom from God’s Wrath: Is God Angry at Me?
Does God want to scare us?
Death. Judgment. Hell. My own or someone else's. This is what most Christians fear the most. But fear of God and The Last Things is about punishment. And the Bible says there is no punishment in love.
What does it mean to "fear" God, if "there is no fear in love" (1 Jn 4:18)?Unpack the shift from fear to love, exploring death, judgment, heaven, and purgatory as a journe
Ep 03 #541 Freedom from Sin: How to Escape Habitual Sin, Free Indeed Series
If you're confessing the same sin over and over, you probably feel like you're never going to be free of it. But that's a lie of the enemy, meant to keep you enslaved.
Let's strategize with St. Augustine’s three stages of sin (suggestion, pleasure, consent) and Sonja's proven 4-step STOP method, and get you free in Jesus!Conquer addictions like porn, anxiety, or overeating. Learn to walk in the Sp
Ep 02 #540 Freedom from Indecision: Gratification or Edification? Free Indeed series
How do I make godly decisions when my needs or preferences clash with someone else's, especially someone who is important to me, such as my spouse or parents? Using the principle of edification over gratification from 1 Corinthians 8, we learn when to put others’ spiritual growth (e.g., avoiding scandal with meat offered to idols) above self-interest, and when to LEAN IN to self-interest (e.g., do
Ep 01 #539 Freedom from Scruples: Am I a bad Christian? Breaking the Rules While Living for God, Free Indeed Series
What’s okay to eat and drink? Can I EVER eat cake if I’m diabetic, or drink alcohol if I struggle with temperance? Should I veil or not? Charismatic or traditional? TLM or Novus Ordo? How does a Christian make godly decisions in specific situations when the Bible and the church are unclear, or such "rules" are imposed by others?
If you’re stuck in your own or someone else’s spiritual minutiae of
Ep 10 #538 “Spiritual bypassing” is the name for that stuckness and confusion
Get your copy of Love Heals here and participate with us in the Book Club.
There’s a word for that Jesus-confusion you’re feeling that's keeping you stuck: it’s called spiritual bypassing. It's pretty rare to see or hear about spiritual bypassing in Catholic clerical or professional circles. It’s often completely unheard of and/or misunderstood by those of us with faith who are trying to heal, a
Ep 09 #537 Where are you in the stages of prayer and faith?
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These stages of prayer and faith can save your sanity throughout your spiritual life.
When you feel lost in darkness and dryness and like God has suddenly "left the building" after an extended time of fruitful prayer; when you don't understand your neighbor's rude rigid faith and she is criticizing your Christian freedom
Ep 08 #536 This is what your body is saying through its symptoms
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Benedict XVI said healing is the entire content of redemption. John Paul the Great told us, "In treating the human person as a psychological and physical 'whole', the Old Testament often links 'moral' sufferings with the pain of specific parts of the body: the bones, kidneys, liver, viscera, heart. In fact one cannot deny
Ep 07 #535 Here’s the #1 reason you think God has abandoned you
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Notice the word "think" in the title?
Your mind is the battlefield, and if you don't fight the lies you came to believe about yourself in your suffering - if they reign unchallenged - God will let you keep them. Yes, He is that respectful of your free will.
Your mind is the battlefield, and if you don't fight, the lies
Ep 06 #534 What’s the difference in “fixing” and “healing”?
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In Love Heals I state, "You don't need to be fixed; you just need to be healed." What's the difference? Freedom. Gentleness. Patience. Peace. Love.
Don't you need that?
It seems too obvious to state, but machines and organisms differ fundamentally. We don’t “heal” machines, we “fix” them. Living things heal according to th
Ep 05 #533 The #1 Hack to Healing
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If 80-90% of all physical issues have emotional and spiritual roots as research indicates, then it's imperative to address those in healing the whole person. Besides unforgiveness, judgments are - in my opinion - the biggest block to healing, because they blind us to inherent contradictory truths in ourselves and others th
Ep 04 #532 What’s the Point of “Healing,” Anyway?
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Ever wonder what your purgatory and heaven will be like, assuming you'll get there? Where we end here limits and determines our "there..." (Eccl 11:3).
Bracing against and ignoring pain does not protect you from it.
It simply delays and compounds the inevitable confrontation and makes the struggle more difficult. In the me
Ep 03 #531 How to Process Your Emotions Properly
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We're talking about emotions, especially for those of us who tend to push them down or ignore them. As Catholics, we know that God gave us our hearts and our emotions for a reason. But what do we do when those dark, negative feelings bubble up, especially in a pop quiz when they're super strong?.Eruptions? Vomit? Pretendin
Ep 02 #530 Love Heals Your Mind and Body – Book Club Overview Pt. 2
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Feelings and thoughts are energy that affect the body and vice versa.
When confronted with difficult emotions, most people employ maladaptive ways for coping with undesirable feelings, such as self-medicating or denial.
Although maladaptive coping mechanisms offer relief in the moment, they lead to illness; they do not fa
Ep 01 #529 Love Heals, Heart & Soul – Book Club, Overview Pt. 1
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Love saves us. We are healed by love; we are healed for love. Healing is your rightful inheritance as a child of God through Jesus Christ. We must learn to receive and give authentic love--heart, soul, mind, and strength--the first and greatest commandment according to Jesus in Mark 12:30.
"Healing is an essential dimensio
Ep 02 #528 How specific parts of the body often express pain
In order to finally and fully heal from pain and illness we must all become consciously aware of various issues in our personal development, subconscious conflicts, and how we have learned to deal with stress. Thoughts and emotions are energy. If they aren’t processed and able to flow freely through us, they accumulate. And where they accumulate in the body is the message in our pain.
Here are a f
Ep 01 #527 Don’t just “offer it up”! Get real relief!
Let me guess.
You terrorize yourself with this type of catastrophizing thought on a frequent or regular basis:
I’m going to feel this way forever.
I will never be out of pain/fatigue/sickness.
The pain will never end.
I have GOT to figure this out.
I’ve tried everything and nothing works.
What is my pain level? Is it worse or better? What about now?
I feel a little better, but what about t
Ep 01 #520 ‘Tis the season … for pop quizzes
I've heard from many of you who are already experiencing pop quizzes related to holiday celebrations, so here are six Ps for navigating the holidays and making them more peaceful and happy: Predict, Prepare, Plan, Priorities, Peace, Pivot.
And here's how to elevate your base-line happiness, because thanksgiving is a multiplier!
Don't all of your issues seem to be exacerbated by the holiday season
Ep 08 #518 Here’s why you feel so invisible and spiritually depleted
Why do you feel so invisible and spiritually depleted? You need a daily LOVE encounter with Jesus. You need daily nourishment from the "one table of the Lord" (CCC 103).
“You are invited to an encounter with Jesus, Word of God made flesh, as an event of grace that runs through the reading and the hearing of the Sacred Scriptures” (The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church).
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07 Ep# 517 If you miss this, you miss heaven altogether
Faith cannot simply be belief – in God, or in a set of teachings – for “even the demons believe and tremble” (James 2:19). In this show, we discern what faith is, by looking at what it isn’t.
This show is from the previous LOVE the Word® series, the Entrust episode, available here.
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Thank you with all my heart to my newest Friends of the Show, Lisa S, Sandy M, Janette S, and Katy M, f
03 Ep# 513 Listen…Is Your Silence Enflamed?
"Silence is the language of God - sanctity's mother tongue" (Lawrence Lovasik, SVD).
Learning to be comfortable and still in silence is possibly the most important thing we can foster in the spiritual life, because Mary shows us that listening comes first in prayer - not speaking - and true listening can only happen in silence.
Is listening simply reading the scriptures? If I read passage after pa
02 Ep# 512 Want to “Experience” God?
NOTE: The new 2025 Mary journal I spoke about in this episode will be out in a few weeks at Advent. Until then, you can download a free 2024 journal and guide page in the margin to the right.
The book I mentioned in the podcast that I wrote with Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, Ignite, Read the Bible Like Never Before, is also available in the right margin.
This is a re-released, vintage podcast from
01 Ep#511 How Do I Hear God Speak?
NOTE: The new 2025 Mary journal I spoke about in this episode will be out in a few weeks at Advent. Until then, you can download a free 2024 journal and guide page in the margin to the right.
I mentioned Unleashed in this re-released, vintage podcast from 2017, but the complete resource on LOVE the Word® is How to Pray Like Mary, available in the right margin, in which you'll learn to approach Scr
04 Ep#508 The Shield of Faith: What Is Faith?
Faith cannot simply be belief – in God, or in a set of teachings – for “even the demons believe and tremble” (James 2:19). In this show, we discern what faith is, by looking at what it isn’t.
This show is from the previous LOVE the Word® series, the Entrust episode, available here.
Thank you with all my heart to my newest Friends of the Show, Carolyn McG, Rosella De T, and Maria H, for loving and
01 Ep#505 Protecting Your Family and Descendants During Times of Delusion: Belt of Truth
This series, The Armor of God for Healing, is based on Ephesians 6:10-18.
Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual h
11 Ep#504 Full Length Inner Child Visualization
Dedicated to Max.
Sometimes a podcast episode feels like a pure supernatural gift from the Holy Spirit to me, and then to you. This episode is such a gift.
This technique has the power to heal at the heart level like nothing else I've used. Ask Little Therese for that grace.
In Episode #495, I offered a short version of The Little Way Visualization technique. It was short because I ran out of
10 Ep#503 Pharisaism, Narcissism, and Worthlessness
Before we can truly become "little," we must confront the Pharisee in ourselves. Pharisaism is religious narcissism. The Bible calls it "insolent pride."
The label "narcissist" is widely deployed to refer to people who appear to be too full of themselves, but the truth is, we all have selfish, narcissistic tendencies to some degree that we must wrestle with. I believe this "spirit of judgment" is
09 Ep#502 Back to Thérèse & the Series Takeaway
The point in "healing the inner child" is illustrated and affirmed by an ancient psychological/mythological idea that the way to full maturity is to find what you lost as a child and regain it. The recovery of the child revivifies the adult by teaching the adult how to play, trust, and wonder without judgment again, but with the added maturity and knowledge of being an adult who knows how to organ
08 Ep#501 How Pharisaism Blocks Healing Communion
Listen, Pharisee, the reason you're lonely, the reason you don't feel "chosen," the reason God hasn't thrown you a party (Parable of the Prodigal), is because you're full of judgments that block communion within yourself and between you and the Father, so that you can't feel comfortable enough with Him to even ask for a party. And if he threw you one now, in the state of Pharisaism you're in, you'
07 Ep#500 Acknowledging the Darkness
All of our spiritual and emotional issues stem from an unconscious unwillingness to acknowledge the darkness in ourselves. In order to resist conscious "seeing" and acknowledging and doing something about the ugly truths in ourselves, we project them onto others, we distract ourselves, and in doing so, we disown parts of ourselves and those parts begin their tyranny. When enough of us do this, our
06 Ep#499 Rescuing the Lost Sheep: Fraternal Correction
Somehow I suspect you've either recently been in a conflict where you were corrected or have seen a need or opportunity to offer correction to another. If not, perhaps it's just around the corner. How about some guidelines from Jesus about that?
Because we are God's children, and He warns us sternly against "despising the little ones." After radical detachment, we have to "turn back" to rescue t
05 Ep#498 The Child as a Flesh & Blood Parable
Using Matthew 18 as a touch point for discussion of the inner child is what we call using a "spiritual sense" of Scripture.
It's fascinating to me that Jesus emphasized His teaching in 18 and part of 19 by placing children before Him (remember that chapter and verse numbers were not in the original writings, but added for our convenience).
Like flesh and blood parables, children bookend His te
04 Ep#497 Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety is when someone fears being apart from or losing a person or other attachment figure, a place, or even an animal. Adults can experience separation anxiety, although it is more common in children. Learning necessary, healthy detachment from parents, relatives, friends, and trauma bonds provokes "separation anxiety," does it not? Severe SA can manifest in physical symptoms, such a
03 Ep #496 The Distressed Inner Child and a Holiday Navigation Guide
Don't all of your issues seem to be exacerbated by the holiday season? We're spending increased amounts of time with people and/or family who may have wounded us or still do. We may feel pressured and obligated by Great Expectations for how things "should" be. Perhaps we labor under the financial burden such expectations add; the sometimes extreme changes in environment, sleep, and schedules at wo
02 Ep #495 The Little Way Visualization Exercise for Your Inner Child
Are you curious? What does your inner child's voice sound like?
This episode, perhaps more than any other I've ever done, has the power to change your life. Ask Little Therese for that grace.
When we protect and provide love and radical acceptance for our inner child, she glows and warms up inside. We have the inner freedom to breathe more easily and try new things. We know we can tolerate failure
01 Ep #494 St. Thérèse of Lisieux and The Little Way
Healing the heart is about memory and emotion. Whatever and wherever our painful memories and emotions from the past are, they influence our present and future through our inner child. Learning to love the demanding, controlling little you that still screams for attention and protection in your present and future can be challenging, but it is possible, and Jesus teaches it is necessary.
"Unless
Ep #487_”Who” Heals You through Scripture?
For us the Bible is a single book, but it's really a Book of Books. The Bible is a library of books, from "biblios," meaning books. These books were written at different times that are sometimes separated by millennia; by different authors with various writing styles, proficiencies, and personalities; to different audiences. Is it any wonder that it can be hard to read and understand?
This episo
Ep# 486_How to Heal with Scripture & Love the Word®
No matter how well you know the Bible, Ignite will offer you something new, both as a hermeneutic and in its practical, personal approach to Scripture. The first chapter is Lectio Divina (meaning holy reading). It covers the ancient Christian practice of daily prayer with Scripture that we Baptist's called the "daily quiet time." We start with lectio divina in the book, because that's the usual wa
05_Our Rule of Life, Discernment
Discernment of spirits used to solely mean "diagnosing" whether someone was led by the Holy Spirit or the enemy. But it's more complicated than that, isn't it? The same person, even holy people, can be influenced by both the Holy Spirit and the enemy.
Ignatius of Loyola compiled and systematized the Desert Fathers' tradition of discernment, so that now we understand "discernment of spirits" to mea
01_The Mystery of the Holy Spirit, God Who Is Still Concealed
In this hour of all-but-universal darkness, we need a spiritual deepening that makes us really dare to live out the power of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Nothing less will save us or our world. This series is an invitation to step into the fire of the Burning Bush, a fire that burns without consuming, without scorching, without singeing; a fire that arrives on the wind, is fed by the wind, and
07_Angels Series Takeaway
For this last, summary episode in the Angels series, I am offering the best concise 48-minute synopsis on angels and spiritual warfare I know of. Ha! The Bible shows us that the spiritual battle we are all engaged in is centered on fear versus faith. So please enjoy the first chapter of my book Fearless, without interruption.
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06_Spiritual Warfare
'Spiritual combat' is another element of life which needs to be taught anew and proposed once more to all Christians today. It is a secret and interior art, an invisible struggle in which [we] engage every day against the temptations, the evil suggestions that the demon tries to plant in [our] hearts" (St. JPII, Apostolic Visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Azerbaijan and Bulgaria).
Thank
05_Fallen Angels
As the very first sentence of Fr. Ripperger's book Dominion, states, "Since the very nature of the spiritual battle is to engage fallen angels, it is necessary to discuss the nature of angels, their attributes, etc., since the fallen angels are still angels."
Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Laura B; Dana G; Mandy W; Karen P; and Barbara C, for loving and lifting me! Friends of the S
04_Nothing Happens without the Angels
I finished last week's episode a little bit unsettled, because with all the detailed information St. Thomas, Dionysius, Augustine, and John of Damascus give us about angels throughout Church history, I wondered how they came up with such detail and what it all means. This episode is an "aha!" moment I had the night I finished last week's show (that I also found confirmed in Aquinas), about the ang
03_Angelic Hierarchy
We know from the Bible that angels are a heavenly army called the "heavenly hosts" (host means army), and are organized into ranks, choirs or divisions, that make up the angelic hierarchy. In this episode we learn the names and tasks of each division and probe what the Bible says about each division.
Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Mary C; Nicole G; Verna S; Sheila S; Gabriela C; Tre
02_Angels’ Relationship to Us
Angels are messengers from God to humans. What does it mean that "angel is the name of the office"? If each angel is its own species according to its task, what do angels do? How many are there? How do we know that each of us has a guardian angel?
Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Amy H; Kialee B; Melissa B; Anne K; and Tiffany H, for loving and lifting me! Friends of the Show get all
01_Angels Are Spiritual Creatures
This series probes what the Bible, the Catechism, Church Fathers, St. Thomas Aquinas, and contemporary exorcists reveal about angels, their relationship to God, one another, and the human race. Episode 1 explores what it means to say angels are "spiritual and incorporeal beings" and the extraordinary powers and abilities they employ in their tasks.
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Who Is Sonja Corbitt? An Introduction
New around here? Welcome!
Woops! I just tripped myself trying to curtsy for you in my schlepping boots (seriously, the html keeps kicking out my left arrow, curtsy, right arrow). No problem. I’m more flaming Bible teacher than Southern belle anyway, hence the “evangelista” moniker. Yes, I made up a word, but it’s entirely applicable, since by definition an evangelist simply shares the good news of
04_How & Why Gratitude Heals
Gratitude is the only thing that has been found to actually increase your baseline happiness, called dispositional happiness. Other things, such as self-medication, will cause a temporary increase in happiness, but then you return to the baseline. But over time gratitude increases dispositional well-being, or happiness, permanently!
Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Jennifer M; Deborah
03_Thanksgiving Is the Multiplier
According to the Scriptures, complaining and thanksgiving are both multipliers. Complaining multiplies scarcity, fear, futility, and purposelessness; while thanksgiving multiplies a few loaves and fishes to feed all who are present, with plenty left over.
Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Jannifer S, and Carolyn McK, for loving and lifting me! Friends of the Show get all Premium Conte
02_Life Is a Benediction
Once, when wallowing in suffering and complaining to God, "Why me?", He answered me with, "Why not you?"
It was a sobering question that re-ordered my negative thinking toward thankfulness for all the terrible things I didn't have that I could. That was when I realized it can always be worse, a reality I remind myself of every time something "bad" happens.
The Jewish practice of praying the Eight
01_The Number One Reason to Be Grateful
Gratitude is a worldview, but is it a secular worldview or a sacred one? If gratitude is so obviously good for us, emotionally and physically, why are we so ungrateful? And why are Christians who have so much to be grateful for as negative and as physically unhealthy as the godless?
Biblical gratitude helps us return our hearts to the eternal. Living in the midst of so many evils, temptations, an
05_Elevation of the Body, Physical Healing & Faith Series
Just in time for the All Hallow's Eve and All Saints feasts: the resurrection of the dead "in their own proper bodies which they now bear" is an infallible dogma, necessary to the Christian faith and handed down to us and confirmed repeatedly in the Scriptures, the Councils, the Creeds, and the Fathers. At the second coming, Jesus “will judge the living and the dead, to render to every person acco
4.4_How To Work thru Pop Quizzes for Physical Healing, Physical Healing & Faith Series
You will need the Step-By-Step Guide to Working through Pop Quizzes (updated STOP Tool)* to work through the content of this episode.
Animals do not hold and store trauma. They do not have the capacity, because they do not have a soul (emotion, intellect, will). Because the human person is a soul-body, humans often hold on to the emotion, lies, and self-medication of memories and their stored tra
4.3_Healing Physical Memories, Physical Healing & Faith Series
Now that we know physical symptoms are information -- that they are the body's way of communicating a need for healing and what needs to be healed -- we can proceed to the how of the actual healing of physical memories.
To heal the body's physical memories (compacted stress/traumas responses), we listen to and follow the physical symptom in our pop quizzes to 1) the theme emotion, 2) the memory/im
04.2_Four Stress Responses, Physical Healing & Faith Series
Physical symptoms are information; they are the body's way of communicating a need for healing, what needs to be healed, and even how to heal. Much of the automatic physical reaction we experience in stressful situations is ultimately ignored because we mark it down to "stress" (unavoidable!) without actually listening to what it's trying to tell us. But dismissing physical symptoms because they a
04.1_Revelation of the Body, Physical Healing & Faith Series
Perhaps a negative view of the human body has been construed from St. Paul's remarks about "crucifying the flesh." But Paul is simply pointing out that the flesh fell with the soul in the Garden, must be restored, and will be elevated even higher to the image of Christ. Jesus reveals the Gospel of the Body.
"Only in reference to the human person in his 'unified totality', that is, as 'a soul which
03_Degradation of the Body, Physical Healing and Faith Series
Perhaps we think back to the Garden of Eden and imagine how glorious it would be to live like Adam and Eve in Paradise before the fall, with our souls clear and free and full of light, and in full and immediate control of the appetites of the body. Or we try to imagine our lives without the darkness and difficulties of the suffering we have personally endured? What kind of healthy, happy person "m
02_Creation of the Body, Physical Healing and Faith Series
The Church Fathers teach that the body is not the "container" for the soul, but the soul is the "container" of the body, and is everywhere throughout the body. This view is reflected in Jesus' statements, "The eye [the soul, according to the Fathers] is the light of the body. So, if your eye is sound [integrated, one], your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole
01_Somata, Meaning “Bodies” – Physical Healing and Faith Series
It's hard to impossible to be physically healthy when you hate your body. Media, trauma, disease, pregnancies, abuse, ageing, bullying - how a person perceives her appearance and feels in his body directly impacts his or her physical health. What is the truth about your body?
"The human body shares in the dignity of "the image of God": it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiri
07_Cherished Takes Time, Cherished Series
Unity, permanence, holiness, reverence, glory: "For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the church" (Eph 5:29-32).
This is w
06_Mutual Submission, Cherished Series
I've hit "wives submit to your husbands" pretty hard, but now it's time for "the rest of the story," "husbands, love your wives." Love is the center of everything, after all, and the wife's submission is only rational and only makes sense if her husband submits to her in love, by love, for love, and with love - the love of Christ Himself.
Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Jean I; Anita
05_Authentic Love & Boundaries, Cherished Series
Relationships (especially in our vocations) are Providentially meant to teach us authentic love - how to give it, and how to receive it. As a matter of charity, aggressive personalities must learn to respect others' proper boundaries, and passive personalities must learn to erect proper boundaries. And all of us must learn authentic forgiveness.
Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Julie
04_It’s About You, Not Them, Cherished Series
When pop quizzes come to us to through people we love, especially people we're married to, the temptation is to focus on them - their faults, their meanness, their motives. But those pop quizzes are about us, not them. The Holy Spirit is trying to heal us of wounds that are deeper and older than the offense in front of us.
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03_Your Maker Is Your Husband, Cherished Series
Healing is the "science of love," as Therese of Lisieux framed it. Because all healing comes from God, and God is relationship, we are healed in the measure that we know God intimately. We cannot love God when other things are prioritized over our time and attention. We cannot know Him if we are not consciously connecting to Him. We cannot expect to experience His unconditional love while holding
02_The Divine Romance, Cherished Series
Love is the ultimate mystery, isn't it? Love is both the primary human need and the fundamental motivation of every human act: we're always, always, always either trying to get love or trying to give love. It's that basic. We need to be cherished and to cherish.
Because it's as fundamental as the philosopher's "first cause," when our attempts to love or be loved are rejected or twisted, or when w
01_So You’re Needy?, Cherished Series
So you're needy? You were created to be needy. In fact, you were created with an abyss of neediness because your neediness was meant to be satisfied. You were created to be cherished.
Adam and Eve were created needy: they needed food, water, work, and intimate relationship before sin ever entered the Garden. The tragedy of sin was that it separated Adam and Eve from the Source that was meant to s
07_The Greatest of These Is Love, Spiritual Gifts Series
Sandwiched between St. Paul's sermon on spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12, and his correction of abuses of sign gifts in chapter 14, is perhaps the most beautiful treatise on love ever written. Should you have all the "best," most visible gifts, should you know and understand everything there is to know and understand, should you be martyred -- none of it profits you nor anyone else a thing, if
06_Sign Gifts | Gift Clusters, Spiritual Gifts Series
Sign gifts validate the authenticity of the messenger and message. Miracles, healings, tongues and interpretation of tongues all show that God is real and present in power. In this episode, we explore the sign gifts cluster and the individual sign gifts.
Take the spiritual gifts inventory quiz and learn about the gifts.
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05_Service Gifts | Gift Clusters, Spiritual Gifts Series
While those with "equipping gifts" prepare others' heads and hearts for the work of ministry through discipleship, those with "service gifts" do the hands-and-feet work of ministry. Most of us have several spiritual gifts that the Holy Spirit arranges in "clusters" that help us minister effectively to others in the Church. In this episode, we explore types of service clusters and begin unpacking t
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