Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Sometimes a week off just doesn’t pan out. I am back this week despite my planned break. My writer part couldn’t resist, and a self-led desire to share the fruits of my own interior work has inspired this week’s reflection. Three...
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Internal Family Systems
How to Help Your Parts Get Their Needs Met by Working with Daydreams
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, In last week’s reflection, The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams, we reviewed a structured way to discover our parts’ underlying unmet attachment and integrity needs which so often fuel our daydreams...
The Three Essential Relationships (Part 2: Myself) with Dr. Peter Malinoski
The Eight Steps to Understand Your Parts Through Exploring Your Daydreams
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Last week’s reflection shed light on the deep interior work of St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose lengthy convalescence from a cannon ball wound grounded his temporal affairs and offered him an opportunity to re-evaluate his modus operandi. ...
Gently Approaching What Underlies Problematic Daydreams
Dear Souls and Hearts members, Over the past several weeks, we have journeyed together through a seriously Catholic exploration of daydreams from many different angles. Thank you for traveling with me. Let’s briefly review our course thus far: July 19, 2023 Daydreams:...
IIC 120: Understanding Narcissism More Deeply with IFS
Does Jesus Have Parts?
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, We are pleased to be able to engage with our Souls and Hearts community members on the intersection and the interplay between the natural and the spiritual. Recently Dr. Gerry answered questions from Helen Young, a Resilient Catholic...
Sin, Self, Free Will, Hell, and IFS: A Conversation
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, What a gift to receive a variety of reader responses to our recent series by Dr. Gerry on understanding IFS work and parts of the human person with the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. One exchange stood out as an opportunity for us to...
The Institution of the Eucharist: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries
Dear Souls and Hearts members, In this series, Dr Gerry Crete explores a Christian approach to working with our parts using the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. Reflecting on these five Gospel accounts from the typological or allegorical sense rather than the literal...
The Transfiguration of Jesus: Illuminating Parts Through the Luminous Mysteries
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, I am so glad to bring you Dr. Gerry’s fifth weekly reflection in his series on the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary, as he brings together the psychological and spiritual in ways that support both human formation and spiritual growth. In...