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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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The Year of Conquering Negative Thinking

Jan 31, 2017

Article posted in the New York Times. Click the link below to view The Year of Conquering Negative Thinking

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Religion a Way of Seeing

Jan 26, 2017

In his book, “Who Needs God?” Rabbi Harold Kushner tells this story. A man receives a message that a relative died and left him valuable property. He was to...

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Selflessness Part of Who We Are?

Jan 19, 2017

When I was a reporter, I did a story about Ed, a man in his 80s who took round-the-clock care of his demented wife. Alzheimer’s disease had already attacked...

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Young Victims of the Opioid Epidemic

Jan 17, 2017

Article posted in New York Times. Click the link below to view the article:  Young Victims of the Opioid Epidemic

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Rage against God

Jan 12, 2017

Ellie Wiesel, author, Nobel Peace winner and survivor of the Holocaust, experienced the worst of what life can throw at a human being. The camps created by the Nazis...

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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jan 12, 2017

“Behold the Lamb of God” (Jn. 1, 29)   “A lot of church-going people never really got baptized.” That sentence jumped out at me from a very provocative article...

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The Benefits of Trust in God

Jan 05, 2017

The Vatican recently named the first-ever American-born person to be an official “martyr,” considered to be a step in the process to be declared a saint. Though a Catholic,...

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Epiphany of the Lord

Jan 05, 2017

  “We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.” Mt. 2:1   Epiphany, a word meaning a divine manifestation within human history, is...