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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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Addiction Treatment Grew Under Health Law. Now What?

Feb 11, 2017

Article posted in the New York Times. Click the link below to view: Addiction Treatment Grew Under Health Law. Now What?

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What Makes Us Happy?

Feb 09, 2017

What was the happiest day of your life? The “politically correct” answers would be, “the day I got married,” or “the day my children were born.” Fact is, I...

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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Feb 09, 2017

“Do not think I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.” Mt. 5:17   Some of you may...

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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Feb 02, 2017

“You are the salt of the earth …. You are the light of the world. Mt. 5: 13-14 “Let there be light.” The first words God ever spoke. To...

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Can We Live in God’s Presence?

Feb 02, 2017

Many people are uncomfortable, even embarrassed, by personal expressions of religious belief or practice. So be warned, I’m about to engage in such an expression. About a year ago,...

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What is the Catholic response to the rise of nationalism?

Jan 31, 2017

Article posted by America Magazine. Click the link below to view: What is the Catholic response to the rise of nationalism?

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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jan 31, 2017

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Mt. 5:2   Really? The meek and the merciful are “blessed”? The grief-stricken are “comforted”? “Blessed”...

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Sweeping Health Measure, Backed by Obama, Passes Senate

Jan 31, 2017

Article posted in the New York Times. Click the link below to view: Sweeping Health Measure, Backed by Obama, Passes Senate