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Interior Integration
IIC 104: Connecting with your Angry Parts — Experiential Exercise
Why We Resist Change – And Especially Radical Transformation
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, So how do we love ourselves better, in a more ordered way? I ended our last weekly reflection titled Examples of Bad Self-Love and the Consequences with this question. In the next several weeks, we will be exploring ordered love, with...
Examples of Bad Self-Love and the Consequences
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, In our last two weekly reflections (the archive is here) and in the last Interior Integration for Catholics podcast episode, we have been exploring the importance of ordered self-love. In agreement with St. Thomas Aquinas, I have been...
Why Is Interior Integration Crucial for Union with God?
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Recap: Proper self-love is indispensable In last week’s reflection, titled St. Thomas Aquinas: You Must Love You. First., I laid out the arguments from our Angelic Doctor about why proper self-love is essential to being able to love your...
St. Thomas Aquinas: You Must Love You. First.
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Love was of the highest importance to St. Thomas Aquinas. He identified love as “the source and summit” of the life of each person. Catholic philosopher Anthony Flood, in his masterful book The Metaphysical Foundations of Love summarizes...
The Top 10 Needs That Fuel Modern-Day Idol Worship
Dear Souls & Hearts Community, So often we hear homilies, sermons or read spiritual writings about idols in the modern day. And that is a good thing, it makes sense. The first commandment of the Decalogue in Deuteronomy reads as follows: I am the Lord your God,...
Caiaphas and Interior Integration
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All Is Gift — Unrecognized Gifts from God
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