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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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The Nuncio Cometh?

Mar 15, 2016

Article posted by National Catholic Reporter http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/nuncio-cometh

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Three years on, pope leaves Catholic conservatives feeling marginalized

Mar 15, 2016

Posted by National Catholic Reporter http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/three-years-pope-leaves-catholic-conservatives-feeling-marginalized

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Sr Rachel Bergschneider: Fifth Sunday of Lent

Mar 12, 2016

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The Fifth Sunday of Lent

Mar 11, 2016

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Crux: Let’s drop the obsession with criticism of Pope Francis

Mar 11, 2016

Article posted in National Catholic Reporter Let’s drop the obsession with criticism of Pope Francis

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Trust

Mar 10, 2016

As a section editor at a newspaper, I occasionally received calls from people complaining that the paper was filled with “bad news.” They wanted “good news,” they said. I...

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Richard Rohr: Unitive Consciousness

Mar 08, 2016

After conversion, self-consciousness (in the negative sense) slowly falls away and is replaced by what the mystics call pure consciousness or unitive consciousness–which is love. Self-consciousness implies a dualistic...

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Richard Rohr: What Is Conversion?

Mar 07, 2016

“Suddenly, while he was traveling to Damascus and just before he reached the city, there came a light from heaven all around him. He fell to the ground and...