Interior Integration for Catholics

In this episode, I lay out the whole mission and purpose of the Interior Integration for Catholics Podcast -- answering the six central questions so that you can make an informed decision about whether this podcast fits you and your needs.  Get the latest in my discernment about this podcast and the Resilient Catholics Community, where we are going.   Lead in:  [cue Sundancer music] Who, What, Whe...

Join me for a deep exploration of the ways our parts process grief in healthy ways, the back-and-forth alternating between focusing on the loss and looking at restoration.  Guided by the work of IFS therapist and author Derek Scott and by using a dramatized example of loss with resulting grief, we will explore the internal interactions among our parts that lead to such a multifaceted experience of...

Through a dramatic representation, quotes, and examples, I walk you through how six dimensions of what it means for you to love yourself and others.  By bringing in the pioneering work of IFS therapist Derek Scott, we will explore how different parts within you respond to grief and loss in so many different ways.   Lead in:   Lead-in Intro   Letter   Ron's reactions   Intro   We are together in th...

If we love deeply, we're going to grieve deeply.  It's inevitable.  And it's that simple.  So together, let's understand and experience grief better in order to love better.  In this episode, I review the popular models of grief with their strengths and limitations, illustrating them through poetry, quotes, and evaluating them with the best of the psychological research.  Lead-in:  We are going to...

Through dramatic reenactments, experiential exercises and the best of available resources, Dr. Peter brings you critical information to help you better love those near you who are struggling with suicidal thoughts and impulses.  Learn how to be a much better first responder in these situations and to be a bridge to additional resources for your loved ones who are considering suicide.    Lead-in: ...

Dr. Peter brings you inside the inner world of so many parents, spouses, children, and siblings of those who died by suicide.  Through an imagination exercise, research, quotes from family members, and the Internal Family Systems model of the person, he invites you to a deeper understanding of other others experience a loved one's suicide.   Lead-in   The world is full of ‘friends’ of suicide vict...

Lead-in   Almost no one understands suicide very well.  Almost no one.   Some of you might say -- but Dr. Peter, I've been really down and out.  I've been really suicidal.  I've been there.  I lived it.   Not gonna argue with you about having been suicidal. But having intense feelings, almost irresistible impulses toward suicide, constant suicidal thoughts  -- that doesn't mean you understand suic...

Dr. Peter walks with you through what Sacred Scripture has to teach us about suicide, exploring the major episodes of suicide in the Bible from a historical and psychological perspective, grounded in a Catholic worldview.

Storytime  I want to take you back, back in time to a hot June night in 1980 and tell you a story about that time. [cue sound effect] I’m 11 years old and I'm recovering from a third spinal surgery after two previous cervical fusions failed.  I’m feeling terrible.  I'm in a dark, cold hospital room in a university hospital, just out of post-op and back on the pediatric unit 104 miles from home, im...

And depression manifests itself in different ways depending on roles or functions that different parts   Three major roles   Exiles --  most sensitive -- these exiles have been exploited, rejected, abandoned in external relationships They have suffered relational traumas or attachment injuries They hold the painful experiences that have been isolated from conscious awareness to protect the person...

Intro:  It is good to be together, thank you for joining me today in this podcast episode I want to take you back 40 years with me, more than 40 years, to 1981, and share with you an experience I had as a lad, share with you a story and images of that story that will help us understand the topic of today's podcast.  So, without any further delays, its Story Time with Dr. Peter  Its early July 1981...

Introduction The Goals:  We Catholics are to love God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.   With every fiber of our being, every last little bit of ourselves.   To love God in every internal experience -- every thought, emotion, body sensation, intention, impulse attitude, belief, assumption, every desire -- every internal experience ori...

  The Pitch -- Opening   Set the Scene Two Great Commandments   What is the whole point of your life? What is your mission and purpose? What is the most important thing for you to do?  Really think about that for a minute.  What is your ultimate goal on this planet as a Catholic man or woman?   All of us serious Catholics want to love God and neighbor.    36 “Teacher, which is the great commandmen...

Introduction  Very autobiographical today, I'm going to tell you a lot about me and the mistakes I've made and how those mistakes have brought me to do this episode.   I don't really like talking about myself -- not a lot of autobiographical material in previous episodes I especially don't like talking about myself all by myself in my little studio -- not being interviewed by a host -- the really...

Intro:   This is it, this is the last episode in our 21 episode series on sexuality , our last episode of 14 in our subseries on sexuality in Catholic marriages, it has been a long run, thank you for being here We are finishing up with our metaphor of the canopied Catholic Marriage Bed  And today we'll be discussing the four bedposts, the canopy, and the bedskirt, bedspread and the shams with more...

Opening Questions (connect to vignettes)   Cindy wants to know, "Is oral sex okay in marriage? -- My husband every now and then likes it if I give him a blowjob, just for some variety in our sex life and he says there's no moral problem with that and it turns him on, but I'm not sure what I think and feel about that."     Barbara asks "In episode 61, in the story of Jeff and Joanne, you seemed to...

Dr. Peter tells a story of a Catholic couple to show how they were able to recognize, take ownership of and work toward resolution of their sexual issues. The audience is encouraged to engage in active listening and be interested in what the story brings up inside, as a way of identifying potential issues in one's own life.

IIC 67:  Catholic and UnCatholic Sex in Catholic Marriages Saturday, May 8, 2021 10:27 AM The Windup – our common ground, a quick summary of where we are today   Let's get down to it.   Most of us Catholic married folk have deep desires within us for authentic, loving, joyful, intimate sexual sharing with our spouses   We want to be loving our spouses, we want to make love to our spouses in ways t...

Intro   It is good to have you with us,   Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist   Weekly Podcast Interior Integration for Catholics  Part of our Online outreach Souls and Hearts and soulsandhearts.com   Which is all about your human formation, all about shoring up your natural foundation for a solid Catholic spiritual life.   Episode 66 Acceptance vs. Endorsement: A Critical Difference in Catholi...

Intro   It is good to have you with us,   Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist   Weekly Podcast Interior Integration for Catholics  Part of our Online outreach Souls and Hearts and soulsandhearts.com   Episode 65  Why Catholic Spouses Find it Hard to Empathize with Each Other, Especially About Sex -- with Solutions.  -- we are in the middle of a series on Sexuality in Catholic Marriages, but don...

Intro   It is good to have you with us,   Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist   Interior Integration for Catholics  Part of our Online outreach Souls and Hearts and soulsandhearts.com   Episode 64 released April 19, 2021   Subtle Ways Catholics Cheat on their Spouses:  How and Why.   Getting into natural level issues around our commitment, the covenant a husband and a wife make in a Catholic sa...

Intro:  I am clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski, and you are listening to the weekly podcast Interior Integration for Catholics   Today in episode 63, we are discussing human formation -- what is it?  What do you mine it's missing for many people?   Windup: I am going to start with a bold claim and a controversial claim.   For many, many Catholic adults in our day and age, in our culture, there...

Intro:  This is Interior Integration for Catholics, it's great that you can join us, and today we are wrestling with the deep attachment needs and the deep integrity needs that Catholic spouses have.  In this life, we all have deep attachment needs and deep integrity needs We all struggle with deep attachment needs and deep integrity needs -- whether we realize it or not.   And some of those needs...

Dr. Peter walks you through an example of how the parts of a Catholic husband and wife blend and take over, leading to fractured, fragmented sex that is ultimately disordered and unsatisfying.

Intro : Welcome to the podcast Interior Integration for Catholics  Interior Integration for Catholics brings to you in each episode the best psychological information essential for your human formation, knowledge that is fundamental in shoring up the natural foundation for your Catholic spiritual life.   This podcast helps you focus inward on your interior integration -- to help you bring together...