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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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How to Help Save the Mentally Ill From Themselves

Nov 18, 2015

Norman J. Ornstein writes a provocative article in the New York Times concerning the world of mental health: How to Help Save the Mentally Ill From Themselves

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Francis’ priorities vs. the priorities of the U.S. bishops

Nov 17, 2015

Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J. discusses this pertinent issue in article in National Catholic Reporter. Francis’ priorities vs. the priorities of the U.S. bishops

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Why Vatican conspiracy theories never go out of style

Nov 15, 2015

John Allen reports on Why Vatican Conspiracy Theories Never Go Out of Style. Why Vatican conspiracy theories never go out of style

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Pope: Religious justification for Paris attacks ‘blasphemy,’ love of neighbor needed

Nov 15, 2015

Article just posted by the National Catholic Reporter concerning the horrific tragedy in Paris. Pope: Religious justification for Paris attacks ‘blasphemy,’ love of neighbor needed

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Secret ‘Catacombs Pact’ emerges after 50 years, and Francis gives it new life

Nov 14, 2015

David Gibson writes about an issue in the National Catholic Reporter that is startling and provocative. Secret ‘Catacombs Pact’ emerges after 50 years, and Francis gives it new life

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Three ways to improve the synod of bishops

Nov 13, 2015

An article by Thomas Reese, S.J. in The National Catholic Reporter: Three ways to improve the synod of bishops

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What Good Is Faith That Doesn’t Challenge Us?

Nov 12, 2015

The Catholic Church, to which I belong, has just finished a meeting of church leaders in Rome called the Synod on the Family. It started on Oct. 4 and...

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Francis: Lay people not ‘second class’ members of Catholic church

Nov 12, 2015

Francis: Lay people not ‘second class’ members of Catholic church