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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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What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?

Sep 04, 2016

Article posted in New York Times (click link below to view) What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?

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Family Stories

Sep 02, 2016

Back in my parochial school, we sometimes told Bible jokes – not in the presence of the nuns, of course, although they probably would have enjoyed them as much...

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How God as Trinity Dissolves Racism

Sep 02, 2016

Read this Article on the God’s Politics blog (click link below) https://sojo.net/articles/how-god-trinity-dissolves-racism

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Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sep 02, 2016

   “… anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions, cannot be my disciple.” Lk 14:33   Several years ago a movie directed by Clint Eastwood featured...

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Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Aug 29, 2016

“ … when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.” Lk:...

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How Trolls are Ruining the Internet

Aug 29, 2016

Article published by Time magazine. Click the link below to view How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet

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The Gospel of The Little Prince

Aug 25, 2016

Attention all those concerned only with “matters of great consequence:” Is it possible that you’ve become someone you didn’t want to be, having strayed far from the innocence and...

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A New Therapy for Insomnia: No More Negative Thoughts

Aug 21, 2016

Article published by the New York Times. Click the link below to view A New Therapy for Insomnia: No More Negative Thoughts