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“Do Not Be Afraid … You Are My Dearest Friends”*

Toxic Fear is perhaps life’s greatest hostage-taker. One psychiatrist calls it a “disease of the imagination.” Fear and disabling Worry can start off like a tiny seed and, watered by thoughts that emphasize worst-case scenarios, grow into a virus-like fiend that ends up dominating our mental state. It then holds us back from our ability to enjoy nearly every dimension of our life: our talents, our work, our love, our play, and our approach to a life in the Spirit.

This website is dedicated to three major Defense Systems that can be effective in helping us overcome the insidious nature of fear, as well as other mental health demons like depression. It will also focus on how we can better live out our lives free of those persistent foragers that roam throughout the corners of our minds… relentlessly haunting us.

Those three Defense Systems are: Spirituality, Psychology and Addiction. All three of these provide newly developed means of delving into the root causes of fear and depression and other mental health disorders, and assisting people in finding improved pathways to freedom, joy, and peace.

“Do not be afraid” – a phrase found 365 times in Sacred Scripture!

*Luke 12:32; translation found in The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eugene H. Peterson

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Spirituality Found in the Obvious?

May 25, 2023

An online ad for a book on spiritual practices reads: “We all have a spiritual side, but for many of us, it’s something we don’t quite understand. We may...

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(note: This feast is often observed on the Seventh Sunday of Easter instead of the Thursday before) “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky?”...

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The Seventh Sunday of Easter

May 19, 2023

“As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.” Jn.17:18 “If you want to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.” These words...

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Taking Another Look

May 18, 2023

First, a disclosure: this blog – as many of my blogs – uses the experience of a Catholic to illustrate its purpose. I believe, however, that people of any...

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The Sixth Sunday of Easter

May 13, 2023

In today’s gospel, the disciples – the ones who had put all their hopes and trust in Jesus – are scared. Very, very scared. Jesus was having his last...

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Viewing “Our Universe”

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May 08, 2023

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