The Interior Integration for Catholics Podcast
The mission of the Interior Integration for Catholics podcast is the formation of your heart in love and for love, Together, we shore up the natural, human foundation for your spiritual formation as a Catholic. St. Thomas Aquinas asserts that without this inner unity, without this interior integration, without ordered self-love, you cannot enter loving union with God, your Blessed Mother, or your neighbor. Informed by Internal Family Systems approaches and grounded firmly in a Catholic understanding of the human person, this podcast brings you the best information, the illuminating stories, and the experiential exercises you need to become more whole in the natural realm. This restored human formation then frees you to better live out the three loves in the two Great Commandments – loving God, your neighbor, and yourself. Check out the Resilient Catholics Community which grew up around this podcast here.
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Check our latest podcast
IIC 134: Looking at Integrated Personal Formation Through a Mathematical Lens
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss how models help us more fully understand Catholic personal formation by showing distinctions and relationships among human formation, spiritual formation, intellectual formation, and pastoral formation. Next, we examine my new model that views formation through a mathematical lens. I explain these each dimension of formation, likening it to a branch of mathematics, and draw from a Pastores Dabo Vobis and other Church documents to illuminate the inter-dimensional relationships in personal formation. Finally, I tell a fictional story that illustrates how deficits in one domain of formation can negatively impact all the other dimensions of formation.
Past Episodes
- IIC 133: Models of Integrated Personal Formation -- Catholic Style, with Matthew Walz, Ph.D.
- IIC 132: Live Q&A with Dr. Gerry on His Book, "Litanies of the Heart"
- IIC 131: On God's Role in your Human Formation
- IIC 130: Grounding IFS in Catholicism-- Litanies of the Heart by Dr. Gerry Crete
- IIC 129: Relating Well with "Borderline" Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete
- IIC 128: Recovering from "Borderline Personality" with IFS
- IIC 127: Understanding Borderline Personalities through Internal Family Systems
- IIC 126: Borderline "Personalities": Your Questions Answered by Dr. Greg Bottaro
- IIC 125: Borderline Personality According to the Conventional Secular Experts
- IIC 124: Your Parts, IFS, And War: An Experiential Exercise
- IIC 123: Relating Well with Narcissistic Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete
- IIC 122: Narcissism and Gaslighting--What Catholics Should Know
- IIC 121: Connecting with Your Own Narcissistic Parts: Experiential Exercise
- IIC 120: Understanding Narcissism More Deeply with IFS
- IIC 119: Narcissism: Q & A with Dr. Peter Martin