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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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Attitude, the Last of Human Freedoms

May 21, 2020

I recently mentioned to my wife, Amparo, that the self-quarantine during the pandemic feels like house arrest. Admittedly, it’s not quite that severe, but like many people, we haven’t...

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Sixth Sunday of Easter

May 15, 2020

“I will not leave you orphans …. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father.”  In today’s gospel, the disciples – the ones who had put all their...

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Calming Life’s Violent Storms

May 14, 2020

One of my favorite gospel passages, probably because it’s easy to see in the mind’s eye, is the story of Jesus and his disciples crossing the Sea of Galilee....

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So Hard to Trust

May 07, 2020

Like many families during this pandemic, my wife, Amparo, and I have had many Facetime sessions with our children and grandchildren. In one recent session, our grandchild, Leo, who...

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Fourth Sunday of Easter

May 01, 2020

“I came so that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” Jn. 10:10 “Stuff.”  The famous comedian, George Carlin, used to do a routine called “Stuff” –...

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The World Hidden Beneath This One

Apr 30, 2020

In her apparently successful search for God, Author Heather King experienced “that stab of joy that hints at a world hidden within this one.” But she didn’t come to...

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Third Sunday of Easter

Apr 24, 2020

“The Lord has truly been raised.” Lk: 24:34 The Emmaus story, described only in the gospel of Luke, can easily be read as the story of our individual faith...

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The Fresco Painter

Apr 23, 2020

While he was painting frescoes in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, the artist James Thornhill became so excited about his fresco that he stepped back to see it better...