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.
We have space for 100 for our live recording of Interior Integration for Catholics podcast episode 165, which will have an experiential exercise and lots of Q&A and discussion. Join Catholic IFS therapists Marion Moreland, David Edwards, and me on Zoom on the evening of Thursday, April 24, 2025 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Eastern Time. Registration is free, but required here. We will be answering questions, and going deeper into the content from IIC episodes 157 to 164.
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IIC 164: What are Internal Systems in Catholic Parts Work?
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Summary
Question: What do improvisational jazz bands, 8-man rowing shells, the Catholic Church, and a nuclear family all have in common? Answer: They are all human systems. Systems have three components: 1) elements (or parts); 2) interconnections (relationships among elements); and 3) a function or purpose. John David Edwards and Dr. Peter as we explore systems. Understanding yourself as a system, with an innermost self, parts, internal relationships among your innermost self and parts (e.g. polarizations, alignments, suppressions, etc.), and that each unintegrated part has an agenda – a purpose it desires – all that helps us understand ourselves and each other. And that understanding helps so much in being able to receive and give love as Catholics.
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Past Episodes
- IIC 163: You Are One and Many: Unity, Multiplicity, and Internal Systems
- IIC 162: Your Body and Your Parts
- IIC 161: Integrity: That You Be One Inside
- IIC 160: Your Parts Have These Six Attachment Needs
- IIC 159: Who Are My Parts and Why Do They Battle Within Me?
- IIC 158: Who is Your Inmost Self?
- IIC 157: Overview of Internal Family Systems -- Catholic Style
- IIC 156: Attachment, Love, God, and Parts: Q&A with Dr. Peter Martin
- IIC 155: You Evangelizing You – “Internal Evangelization”
- IIC 154: Attachment and Learning How to Love with Dr. Peter Martin
- IIC 153: The ARRR Prayer and Integrated Human Formation with Fr. John Horn
- IIC 152: Internal Family Systems Demonstrations Part II with Marion Moreland
- IIC 151: Catholic Parts Work: IFS Demonstrations with Dr. Peter
- IIC 150: Money, Personal Formation, and WalletWin Coaching
- IIC 149: The Integration of Personal Formation in NET Ministries with Pete Burds