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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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Stephanie Carnes – Adolescents and web porn: a new era of sexuality

Aug 14, 2015

According to Stephanie Carnes, PhD, CSAT-S, the full text on this article on teen porn use is not available yet, but the abstract’s findings are stunning. for example, it...

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Phyllis Zagano – Women’s Lives Matter

Aug 14, 2015

Phyllis Zagano, a senior research associate at Hofstra University, published the following article in the August 1 issue of National Catholic Reporter. It’s entitled Women’s Lives Matter: http://ncronline.org/blogs/just-catholic/womens-lives-matter.

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God and Sex, Part III

Aug 13, 2015

Among my earlier blogs were two I posted in the summer of 2013 about “God and sex.” I feel the need to write about it again because I believe...

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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Aug 07, 2015

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the...

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A God of Extraterrestrial Life?

Aug 06, 2015

NASA recently said its Kepler spacecraft spotted “earth’s bigger, older cousin,” the first nearly earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our...

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NYTimes.com: Teenagers, Medication and Suicide

Aug 04, 2015

Very important article in the New York Times by the psychiatrist Richard A. Friedman. It concerns the issue of teenagers struggling with mental health issues and suicide.  Find the...

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Tom Doyle addresses priest sex abuse survivors

Aug 03, 2015

Dominican priest Father Tom Doyle, who has worked with survivors of priest sexual abuse for some 30 years, made a powerful address recently concerning his work and the tragedies...

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Why Do People Still Go to Church?

Jul 30, 2015

A May 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center shows that 23 percent of Americans identified as “religiously unaffiliated,” up from 16.1 percent seven years earlier. And a third...