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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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Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

Aug 28, 2018

“Do you also want to leave?” Jn 6: 68 Many years ago, when I was a student seeking a graduate degree in Psychology, I was honored to take a...

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I recently listened to an episode of the National Public Radio program, This American Life, in which a couple of commentators discussed the Fermi Paradox. One of them said...

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After Pennsylvania, What Pope Francis Should Say in Ireland. Click the link below to read on the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/after-pennsylvania-what-pope-francis-should-say-in-ireland

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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  “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” Jn 6:41   Bread. Today, in the world that we live in, bread is often served at meals, but...

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” Jn: 6:35 No one can ever accuse the...