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Wholeness and Holiness PodcastIntroduction to Trauma Series: Avoiding Spiritual Identity TheftEpisode #2 – Introduction to Trauma Series (Avoiding Spiritual Identity Theft!)
Have you or someone you love endured sufferings in which you continue to feel stuck? Does this leave you feeling confused or even fearful, perhaps even rejected or abandoned by God? Unfortunately, there are so many types of trauma and such experiences are so prevalent that it’s difficult to imagine someone who hasn’t been traumatized at one time or another.
Have you ever been told or thought that if you only had greater faith you’d be able to overcome feelings of abandonment...2024-12-0325 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastKnowing & Being KnownKnowing & Being Known
In choosing how we relate to others, we start at the heart, that is, we start with believing the other to be very good and made in God’s image and likeness. This is a central tenet of our faith as Catholics and is the heart of our respect for human life. As human beings, we are all works in progress. Since this is the truth of the Lord’s relationship to us, why would it be any less true for someone else? If we stop at the fact that he sees us this way...2024-06-1900 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastValuing and Being ValuedValuing & Being Valued
To value another the way God values them means seeing them as they truly are, a treasure of immeasurable worth. People are not a means to an end. In other words, whether we agree or disagree with someone has nothing to do with their inherent value. I could disagree with someone’s opinions, beliefs, or actions, but it shouldn’t change the acceptance I have for them as a human being and the dignity with which I regard them. Remember, our dignity comes from the fact that God is who he is and that he s...2024-06-1200 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastOpenness from OthersOpenness from Others
A number of years ago, I was supervising a team of therapists, and at the end of the workday, I received a call from one of them wanting to consult about a teenager she was treating in a weeklong intensive program. The therapist said she didn’t think the child was appropriate for the week of treatment and thought she would need more time to build rapport. She told me for their three-hour session that day the girl had insisted she didn’t believe in emotions. She said that she thought they were an arti...2024-06-0508 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastOpenness With OthersOpenness with Others
Being open with others is something that requires great courage. Hopefully, by this point, we can begin to put the pieces of connection together and see how they interplay. We have looked at how having a foundation of being known deeply and treasured dearly by God gives us the highest authority upon which to base our identity. Also, we have discussed viewing other people as precious to the Lord and not basing our contentment on their thoughts or actions. It is from this vantage point we can engage with others, knowing their response to...2024-05-2910 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastRespecting the Boundaries of OthersRespecting the Boundaries of Others
Everyone is unique and has their own body, mind, and spirit. Each of us has the responsibility for setting our own boundaries in these areas. We all are required to obey the laws set out by rightful authority (not going against our informed consciences). Within those parameters, we are all called to be good stewards. Our first duty of stewardship is to honor the gift of self that God has given to each of us. Each of us has a different personality, temperament, and life experiences that come together to form who...2024-05-2208 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastBoundaries for OthersBoundaries for Others
Good fences make good neighbors.
– Robert Frost
As a therapist, I’ve noticed that not many people, at least not many who come to therapy, have been taught good things about boundaries. In fact, some people have been directly or indirectly sent very negative messages about them. Many have been given the idea boundaries are a sign of entitlement, artificial walls, or unhealthy distance. Others have set boundaries only to have them continually criticized and have been shamed for them. Still others have never been taught there is such a thin...2024-05-1507 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastConnection to OthersConnection to Others
There can be an imbalance in parenting when a child is taught he’s very special, but isn’t taught everyone else is, too. This quickly plays itself out in behavioral issues and entitlement. There is a danger in connection to ourselves and the Lord without this third leg of connection to others to balance the tripod. Being called to love and lay down our lives for each other draws us out of the self-centeredness of how special we are and into the trenches of sandpaper ministry, where we are all refined and our roug...2024-05-0805 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastBody, Mind, SpiritBody, Mind, Spirit
God created man. He didn’t create spirit, soul, and body separately and then somehow weave them together. In the scripture quote above, St. Paul refers to all three of these aspects as what makes us an entire person. Because of the great expanse of knowledge regarding the different facets of the person, they have become artificially divvied up into distinct areas of study. The truth, however, is there is a continual interplay between them. Maximizing our pursuit of holiness also requires seeking wholeness, and vice versa. We are body, mind, and spirit. We ca...2024-05-0105 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastOpenness with MyselfOpenness with Myself
Like any relationship, your relationship to yourself is a process. When you look at a baby or small child, do you think they have a grasp on the fullness of who they are as an individual? No! Rather, it is through the process of being loved by their parents, discovering their strengths and weaknesses, growing in compassion for others, and beginning to understand who they are to their parents and to God that they begin to know and value themselves, see themselves as gift and learn to return that gift to the Lord. As...2024-04-2406 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastMy Boundaries for MyselfMy Boundaries for Myself
Boundaries are protective limits to ensure safety, health, and right order. They aren’t just a right, but a responsibility, because they are an essential component of being good stewards of ourselves. We put gates up in homes with babies and toddlers to protect them from dangerous situations. They also protect caregivers from having to fear for a child’s every move. I have a fence up around my yard, which protects my dog from getting lost, stolen, or hit by a car. It also protects me from worrying about her, having to go l...2024-04-1707 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastValuing MyselfValuing Myself
How common is it for us to find value in our performance, talents, skills, physical appearance, wealth, or status? The scripture at the beginning of this section puts our value in right perspective because it reveals God’s perspective. Jonah was sent by God to preach repentance to the Ninevites and, when they did repent and God had mercy, Jonah was angry about it. We take a look at the scripture above and find how God saw them. They were clueless! He said they couldn’t tell their left hands from their right hands! That’s not...2024-04-1007 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastConnection to SelfConnection to Self
Healthy confidence and self-worth are fruits of personal integration. The same factors that are essential for connection to God are also essential for connection to self – being known, valued, and open, and having healthy boundaries. Ideally, a child experiences being known, valued, accepted, and protected by good and loving parents. When this happens, it’s a natural bridge to having self-knowledge and self-acceptance.
So, why is it important to talk about this? Did we just move from talking about spirituality in the previous section to selfishness and being self-consumed? Not at all! Take...2024-03-2009 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGoing DeeperGoing Deeper
When we take a moment to look at nature, we find that life is always a process. Whether it is the acorn becoming a mighty oak, an egg hatching into a duckling, or a baby growing into an adult, life is a process. Since physical life is a process, why would emotional and spiritual life be any different? We would never look at a toddler and think they are wrong or bad for not being an adult. The very idea is outrageous and would deny the beauty of the child and the process God has...2024-03-1306 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastPowerlessnessPowerlessness
The common denominator throughout almost every experience that causes us suffering is that of powerlessness. As people, we have limited ability to affect change in situations that are difficult for us or for those we care about. This in no way diminishes our fundamental value; it simply part of the human condition. We come into the world almost totally powerless. As we grow and develop and gain power, we have to learn to navigate our abilities without running over others, literally and metaphorically. Even though our ability to cause change increases as time goes by, we st...2024-03-0610 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastKnowing MyselfKnowing Myself
What is the truth of who we are as God sees us? In creating us he made us in his own image and likeness and called us very good. (Genesis 1:31) He called us his own and bound himself in covenant with us. He has a plan for our good. He sent his only Son to reveal the depths of his love and mercy to us and to adopt us as his children. He has every hair of our head counted. (Luke 12:7) He gives himself to us intimately through the Eucharist and runs to embrace us...2024-02-2806 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastSufferingSuffering
There are times in all our lives when we go through trials: illness, rejection, abuse, death of a loved one, or loss of a dream, just to name a few. When such things happen, it can be difficult to stay rooted in the truth of God’s connection to us. Even if we’ve had mountaintop experiences of God’s love, sufferings such as these can cause us to feel isolated, disconnected, or abandoned, even from our all-loving creator.
Let’s take a look at the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary when the archange...2024-02-2205 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastEmbracing God’s BoundariesEmbracing God’s Boundaries
In our connection to God and fully seeking to respond to his love for us, we now come to the concept of embracing the boundaries he sets for us. We’ve discussed morality as God’s protection over us since he is our all-loving creator. The Ten Commandments are the starting point of these boundaries. They lay out for us, in the most foundational way, how to live under the umbrella of God’s protection. He’s not lying in wait for us to break his law so he can zap us. Rather, as the goo...2024-02-1412 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastValuing GodValuing God
In taking up this section on valuing God, something a friend of mine once said to me comes to mind, “God can’t be a priority.” Her point was that he is all; he is the only priority. Consider the passion of our Lord: if Jesus’ commitment to us wasn’t absolute, things could have turned out radically different. He could have abandoned the cross at any point. However, because he is consumed with love for us, there was nothing to evaluate or reconsider. He didn’t need to do a cost/benefit analysis as to whether w...2024-02-0710 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastKnowing GodKnowing God
Knowing God is crucial. We’ve already been discussing connection to God and mostly it’s been about who he is and how he is toward us. We see he is personal, knows us perfectly, desires for us to experience profound intimacy with him, cherishes us beyond measure, and operates in our best interest, (which is far better than we could ever hope for or imagine). He protects us and provides for us always and perfectly in the ways necessary to draw us to him. When we stay within his loving boundaries, we remain in him and...2024-01-3113 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastOpenness with GodOpenness with God
The human body is made up of about seventy percent water. Water is necessary for healthy energy levels and flushing toxins and plays a key role in the proper functioning of our whole system. We need it for refreshment on a hot day, for cleansing of dirt and sweat, and it is essential to our lives and the lives of the plants and animals we consume for nutrition. Water is crucial. When a water source is stagnant, we know to be suspicious of it because it can more likely be a breeding ground for...2024-01-2408 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGod’s OpennessGod’s Openness
The God of the entire universe, who is all-knowing and all-powerful, is open in relating to us. One of my favorite scripture verses is from the short little book Baruch, “Blessed are we, O Israel; for what pleases God is known to us!” (Baruch 4:4). How amazing it is that he chooses to make himself known to us! Not only does he reveal who he is, but also what pleases him. There is tenderness in his self-revelation and, given our free will, vulnerability. What if we didn’t know how to please him who loves us so pe...2024-01-1709 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGod Provides BoundariesGod Provides Boundaries
The reason we started with the concept of connection to God was so we could have a clear understanding of the fact he is with us, knows us intimately, values us for who we are and sent his Son to save us by emptying himself on the Cross. He is continually emptying himself in the Eucharist and pouring his graces and mercy upon us, which draw us into the life of the Trinity. He makes his home in us through baptism and animates us by his Spirit. We cannot let go of this foundation...2024-01-1009 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastPrayerPrayer
Personal prayer is essential to internalizing the radical, profound intimacy the living God wants to experience with us. His love for us is infinite. It might be easy to read the last line and agree with it in our head, but in our heart still feel less than adequate, rejected, or forgotten. Our mind might be able to quickly categorize the statement as true, especially if we grew up in church, have studied Theology, or are religious or clergy. Yet, absorbing the Truth – God – is a lifelong process, one we will likely continue throughout eternity. It is n...2024-01-0313 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastValued by GodValued by God
God’s love for us is unlike any other. As covered in the previous section, God created us and so knows us and loves us intimately. Now consider he does so knowing he will always be giving to us far more than we could ever begin to repay, far more than we will even be able to comprehend. He is not just a good father. He is our heavenly Father. He is God and adopts us as his own. This means he chooses us freely, knowing everything about us, good, bad, and ugly.
...2023-12-2709 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastKnown by GodKnown by God
As we begin to take a look at our connection to the Lord, we start with the fact that he deeply and personally knows us. Ideally, we would have had a sense of being known (seen and heard as an individual who is very good) by our parents and caregivers as children. When that happens, it naturally creates a schema in our minds by which we are able to mature more smoothly and with a positive self-concept. The experience of being regarded as an individual who is seen and heard personally as very good...2023-12-2013 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastChosen for Divine IntimacyChosen for Divine Intimacy
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you… – John 15:16
FEARLESS Chapter 3 Chosen for Divine Intimacy. God chose each of us individually out of all the possibilities of people to create, redeem, sanctify, and call into a relationship with himself for all eternity. I remember hearing that there is a one in 400 quadrillion chance for each one of us to be created. Yet, it wasn’t by chance but by the intentional choice of the Lord of all creation. Not only did he choose for us to exist, but to...2023-12-1316 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastConnection to GodConnection to God
FEARLESS Chapter 2 Connection to God. Jesus is the bread of life. He is the food for which we are made. What does food do? It nourishes us, gives us energy. Good food makes us healthy, bad food makes us sick, poisoned food can even kill us, but without food we would die a painful death. Fundamentally, food satisfies us. We eat so that we can live.
Communion – deep, personal, intimate connection with God – is essential to being healthy and vivacious rather than sick, malnourished, and dying. If our connection to God is only...2023-12-0606 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastConnection OverviewConnection Overview
FEARLESS: Chapter 1 Connection Overview. What is so important about connection and why pair it together with the concept of holiness? We don’t have to look far to see how God regards community. He models it for us in the Holy Trinity. We see their love, unity and order in relationship to each other. Each knows, values and respects the others. There is diversity and perfect unity. When God the Father sent his Son into the world, Jesus did only what he saw the Father do (John 5:19). After his Ascension Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, the...2023-11-2912 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastFEARLESSFEARLESS
Preface
FEARLESS Preface & Intro. Many years ago, I noticed that healthy connections to God, self, and others are the foundation of peace and fulfillment in life. Without these connections, we perpetuate lies in our minds that become the basis for our self-talk and how we relate to others. These lies chip away at our ability to perceive and receive the truth of God’s love for us and leave us feeling like he is far away. With a faith rendered full of holes, we are anxiety-ridden and depressed; we find ourselves perpetuating a cy...2023-11-2211 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastVocations and IntegrationVocations and Integration
Vocations and Integration with Fr. Jonathan McElhone, TOR.
Margaret: Do/how do you see a lack of human and spiritual integration in people today?
Fr. Jonathan McElhone, TOR: People are afraid to make mistakes. At times, I’ve seen people confuse their vocation with their salvation. Vocation is tied to our mission, our path toward holiness. Salvation is connected to how I receive God’s love and mercy in my life. Confusing these leads to the belief that God will be disappointed with me if I choose the wrong vocation.
...2023-11-1549 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastTeaching Self-Talk to ChildrenTeaching Self-Talk to Children
Teaching Self-Talk to Children. Positive self-talk is one of the most important interior skills a person can have. Unfortunately, it rarely, if ever, gets taught. Since we listen to ourselves far more than we listen to anyone else, it’s an essential skill to have. When we have positive self-talk, almost any situation can be handled with confidence and peace. When we lack it, we can quickly become dependent on others for affirmation and validation. At best, that positions a child to be a follower in the crowd and, at worst, leaves a child v...2023-11-0814 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastInterconnected Psychology & SpiritualityInterconnected Psychology & Spirituality
Have you ever wondered if psychology and spirituality are interconnected? I hope so! Sadly, some people actually think that they are at odds with each other. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The Lord made us body, mind, and spirit. He made us as a whole person. We are the ones who separate these fields from each other. That happens in academia because each one of those areas – the physical, emotional, and spiritual – have so much content to learn and understand. It can take a lifetime of education to specialize in one. Then, the areas...2023-11-0117 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastHow to Talk to Mean VoicesHow to Talk to Mean Voices
In the last episode, we discussed the importance of compassionate self-talk. So, what do we do with that pesky self-commentary that can be mean or discouraging? Should I ignore it and think happy thoughts? NO! That voice will fester like a splinter, getting more painful. Ignoring it won’t solve things and may exacerbate the situation.
Have you ever been around a toddler and seen how they are when they are ignored? They get louder. They can be quite resolute in their dedication to being heard. It’s amazing, though it ca...2023-10-2515 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastHow to Talk to YourselfHow to Talk to Yourself
How to Talk to Yourself. When most of us hear about communication workshops and the like, we immediately think of how to relate to others peacefully and effectively. Would you believe that is actually the end point of communication, not the beginning? Two critical steps come before speaking with others. Without these two parts of the foundation, relating to others will only be so effective for so long. These two essential ingredients are listening to the Lord and talking to ourselves with the same compassion He has toward us.
God is l...2023-10-1812 min
Open Doors: Conversations with Heart of the FatherFree to Be What I Am Made For: Overcoming Trauma with Rachel Lozano and Margaret Vasquez LPCC-SHave you ever wondered why some of us get stuck, as in really stuck?Did you know that sometimes we are held back from living our best selves, the person we were made to be, by our past hurts and traumatic experiences?Back in the spring, our Heart of the Father team had the opportunity to attend a workshop on trauma informed care in ministry, hosted by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Office of the New Evangelization.This two day workshop was led by the brilliant professional counselor and trauma therapist Margaret...2023-10-1235 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastThe Struggle is Real!The Struggle is Real!
I grew up in the Deep South and learned to drive a stick shift when I was eight years old; for those under 50, some cars had manual transmissions, meaning that the driver had to change the gears. In most cars nowadays, that happens automatically. It was on old, unmarked dirt roads. Driving underage and without a license isn’t something for which I’m advocating, but it was a great experience. I loved everything about it. Learning a new skill was fun, but in particular, there was something about the challenge itself that was excit...2023-10-1118 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastHaving a Ministry MindsetA Ministry Mindset
Having a Ministry Mindset. In Genesis, God put a man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it. That was not a result of the fall of man. It was laboring that resulted from man’s transgression. God worked for 6 days as He created for six days, contrasting with Him resting on the seventh day. Work is not a bad, but a beautiful thing in and of itself. It can even be a glorious thing when we do it in collaboration with the Lord. Along this same line is the motto of the Benedictines, “ora et lab...2023-10-0419 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastDoes Anyone Get It?Does Anyone Get It?
Does Anyone Get It? I want to share with you a devotion that I didn’t come to easily. Because of my own relationship with my mother, I didn’t want a mother. And I certainly didn’t want a sorrowful one! Yet, that was this title of Our Blessed Mother I was forced to grapple with after having been in a religious community named for her. In digging into the history of that title, I found that title was first entered in the Roman Missal as Our Lady of Compassion. That got my attentio...2023-09-2734 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastInterventions to Cope with StressInterventions to Cope with Stress
Interventions to Cope with Stress. At one time or another, we all experience stress in our lives. Whether from anxiety and apprehension about the future or pain over hurtful things from the past, we can feel like our emotions hijack our brain and our ability to maintain that gift of the Lord’s peace. Despite knowing the truth and trusting in God’s goodness, we can feel nervousness in our bodies, making it difficult to concentrate, think straight, and focus. Why is this, and what can we do about it?
This c...2023-09-2015 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGreater Peace, Joy, & Freedom!Greater Peace, Joy, and Freedom!
Greater Peace, Joy, and freedom! Below is a Self-Evaluation regarding the pillars of connection. I share this tool with you to help you find the areas where the Lord may have even more profound peace, joy, and freedom for you. This is not a weapon to use to beat yourself up, but is meant to be an aid for you to know better how to focus your prayer in a way to remove the blocks from receiving God’s love.
Human & Spiritual Integration Self-Evaluation
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Do I lack...2023-09-1328 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastDiscipline and DiscipleshipDiscipline and Discipleship
Why does discipleship conjure up such a beautiful sentiment for most of us, but discipline not so much? If you’re like me, you might feel like discipline is about how you are not good enough, that something more is going to be required from you, and you already feel like you’re at your limit. By contrast, discipleship can make us think of sharing intimately with the Lord and participating in His mission.
In the book of Hebrews, we are told that the Lord disciplines us because we are His children. Discip...2023-09-0633 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastFinding Healing for Holiness and Healthy RelationshipsFinding Healing for Holiness and Healthy Relationships
Finding Healing for Holiness and Healthy Relationships. We all share a call to holiness, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church points out, and the Scriptural basis for this comes from Ephesians 1:4, where we hear that we were chosen in Jesus by the Father before the world even came to be. That means we are set apart for Him. We are made for a profound union with Him body, mind, and spirit for all eternity. Even as intimate as marriage is, it only symbolizes the union we will have with Go...2023-08-2825 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastParenting as God ParentsParenting as God Parents
Parenting as God Parents. Parenting is a tall order. Not only does it mean forming little minds and souls while keeping little bodies protected and provided for but parents image God. How we relate to little people as parents or in roles of authority becomes how they perceive the Lord. Because they perceive us as all-knowing and all-powerful (even though we are NOT), how we interact with them becomes how they perceive He Who is really all-knowing and all-powerful. This can be done in a beautifully good way, as St. Therese of Lisieux’s pare...2023-08-1613 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastTips for ConnectionTips for Connection
Tips for Connection. Following are some very practical ways you can approach parenting to give both you and your child a sense of predictability and peace. Know that if you are a new parent, these will be easier than if you have not been parenting in this way and make the switch to them. It is normal and natural for a child to test boundaries that are set for them. It’s part of how we learn. Eventually, a child will learn that the boundaries you set will hold (if you stick to them) and th...2023-08-0924 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastParenting for ConnectionParenting for Connection
Parenting for Connection. Connection to God, self, and others is fundamentally important to our physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being. Without it, we seek to self-medicate the emptiness through all sorts of things that will never satisfy and will only further the disconnection. So, when we consider the task of parenting or even mentoring as godparents, coaches, teachers, etc. it is critically important to raise adults who are able to be connected and then able to foster the same in the future generations.
As we parent and mentor it is important to...2023-08-0218 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastDiligence Overtakes SlothDiligence Overtakes Sloth
Diligence Overtakes Sloth. One of the cardinal or key virtues, that of fortitude, helps us in the forming of the virtue of diligence. Being diligent means being consistently oriented toward the good. It helps us take the desire and aspiration for good and make it practical and real. The strength (fortitude) when exercised in very human or even seemingly mundane duties forms a habit of diligence. We become consistent in our ability to choose the good. We know God is the greatest good and so the exercise of actual movement in the direction of choos...2023-07-2626 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGrowing Charity to Uproot GreedGrowing Charity to Uproot Greed
Growing Charity to Uproot Greed. Charity is the virtue that wars against greed. Generosity can be used interchangeably with the word charity. Perhaps charity has become so overused that we can forget the real meaning. We give to charities which do good to those in need and are called to be charitable or kind toward others. We don’t hear the word generous used so often in so many ways. So, it can more readily bring to mind the image of someone giving to a point of sacrifice in a way that is unex...2023-07-1931 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastPrecious Blood of JesusPrecious Blood of Jesus
Precious Blood of Jesus. July is the month we take to honor and reflect on the power of the Precious Blood of Jesus. I’m thinking how awesome Jesus’ death and resurrection victory is and that we take Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday to try to break that down so we can really consider it fully. There’s so much and so we take even more time to try to absorb that – celebrating the Sacred Heart of Jesus in June and the Precious Blood of Jesus in July! Every Friday, too...2023-07-1233 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastMeekness, Uprooting AngerMeekness, Uprooting Anger
Meekness, Uprooting Anger. Growing in virtue is what happens when our conscience becomes more and more penetrated by the truth that the Lord perfectly provides for and protects us within the loving boundaries of how He has called us to live. We needn’t struggle and strive to earn a sense of value. He poured His very Self out for us to reveal His love for us and redeem us. He knows everything about us, far more than we could ever hope to know ourselves because it is He who made us and created us in...2023-07-0536 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastFriends in High PlacesFriends in High Places
Friends in High Places. Sometimes in life, we can feel quite lonely for reasons that might be physical, emotional, or spiritual. Perhaps we are living far away from support, need to travel a lot, or perhaps we recently lost a loved one. We can feel emotionally alone, as though no one understands us. Our circumstances can leave us feeling isolated. We can feel spiritually isolated because we find ourselves in the circumstances it seems our friends don’t understand. Any of these types of loneliness can be very painful.
The truth is that...2023-06-2817 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastFreedom from AnxietyFreedom from Anxiety
Freedom from Anxiety. Unfortunately, anxiety has become a very common symptom and causes many people great suffering. Since the pandemic of Covid, those using anti-anxiety medications has reportedly increased by 34%. It is something that can really steal our peace and become disabling.
Let’s look at it from a whole person perspective physically, emotionally, and physically. On a physical level, the overconsumption of caffeine can greatly contribute to anxiety and mimic the physical feeling of anxiety. It can cause our thoughts to race and spin and our hearts to flutter. The size of cof...2023-06-2334 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastModel of HonestyModel of Honesty
A Model of Honesty, Authenticity, and Courage – St. Margaret of Cortona
Model of Honesty. St Margaret of Cortona lived back in the 1200s. Her mother died when she was a young child, and her father remarried a woman who was cruel to Margaret. When she was 17 years old, she left home as the mistress of a nobleman to escape her father’s home and the abuse she endured there. She lived in sin with him for nine years and they had a son together. Even while in the midst of such a sinful l...2023-06-1426 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastHumility MonthHumility Month
Celebrate June – Humility Month!
Humility Month. In 1675, Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, revealed His Sacred Heart, and asked for a feast celebrating His Heart in June. There are so many things in the image of the Sacred Heart for each one of us to receive personally and to imitate.
First, the fact that the King of Kings, the Most Majestic One, reveals Himself to each one of us is mind-blowing. What a tremendous gift that is far beyond what we could ever ask! Secondly, His Heart is offered to each...2023-06-0718 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGrowing Chastity and Uprooting LustGrowing Chastity and Uprooting Lust
Growing Chastity and Uprooting Lust. We are bombarded with lustful images daily. Billboards, commercials, song lyrics, and the like are often filled with impurity. It can be difficult to live lives of purity and chastity. Yet, it is that to which we are called. Why does God ask that of us? It’s because He is very invested in our freedom! He was from the beginning when He created us with free will, and even when man failed and turned away from Him, He sent Jesus to restore our freedom.
Sometime...2023-05-2839 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGrowing Gratitude, KindnessGrowing Gratitude, Kindness
Uprooting Envy
Growing Gratitude Kindness. Envy is the vice of wanting something that isn’t mine. Which is actually wanting something contrary to what the Lord knows will lead me to the joy, peace, and contentment He has for me. When we don’t stay rooted and grounded in love like St. Paul tells us to in his letter to the Ephesians, we can quickly get off track and end up in such self-defeating and relationship-disrupting behavior.
King David gave into envy when he wanted Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba, for his own...2023-05-2735 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGrowing Humility Uprooting PrideGrowing Humility Uprooting Pride
Growing Humility Uprooting Pride. Scripture tells us to choose the way of humility rather than pride. It tells us that God favors the humble and humbles the proud. Jesus even came to give us an example to follow. His whole earthly life was, from first to last, a wondrous showcase of profound humility. He emptied Himself and took on our humanity, was born in humble circumstances to poor parents, associated with the lowly, washed feet, and was buried in a borrowed grave. We are told that is the example that we are to follo...2023-05-1038 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGrowing Virtue and Uprooting ViceGrowing Virtue and Uprooting Vice
Growing Virtue and Uprooting Vice. For the longest time, I would bristle when I would hear people talking about growing virtue and rooting out vice because so many times it sounded like something they were engineering. I’m thoroughly convinced that growing in holiness is something I’m completely incapable of on my own, and I can easily get myself tied in a knot if I try.
I remember the Lord telling me once in prayer when pondering such a thing, “I don’t need your treatment plan.” A therapist creates a tr...2023-05-0339 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastFreedom from Pornography Part 2Freedom from Pornography Part 2
Interview with Steve Pokorny
Freedom from Pornography Part 2 with Steve Pokorny, founder of Freedom Coaching and author of Redeemed Vision: Setting the Blind Free from the Pornified Culture, sat down with me to finish our discussion. Make sure you check out Part 1 from last week to hear how Steve himself ended up addicted to pornography. It’s amazing how the Lord uses those who have struggled and suffered to minister to the very people who are struggling the way they once did. He, indeed, is the Redeemer! Find Steve’s site at Freedo...2023-04-2645 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastFreedom From PornographyFreedom From Pornography
Part 1 Interview with Steve Pokorny
Freedom From Pornography with Steve Pokorny, founder of Freedom Coaching (Freedom-Coaching.net), joined me to discuss his mission to set the captives free from the addiction to pornography. He grew up in Cleveland, OH, suburbs. His father was a Vietnam veteran and suffered from its lingering effects, particularly depression. He was an attorney and worked long hours. He got caught in a get-rich-quick scheme, and, to his knowledge, he had lost a lot of money, after which he attempted suicide. He did not complete the suicide attempt but r...2023-04-1948 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastSuffering Is a PainSuffering Is a Pain
Suffering Is a Pain. This is a topic that is always with us in this life! As Catholics we often hear about the redemptive power of suffering. How are we to do that in a way that is powerful and in a way where we collaborate with the grace the Lord is giving? We know the saints suffered well and that is even before they were saints. We can tend to forget they weren’t yet canonized when they were still alive. What is the difference between suffering and just being in pain?
S...2023-04-0543 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastMatter of Life and DeathMatter of Life and Death
Matter of Life and Death. In Scripture, we hear a lot about dying to ourselves. We are commanded to do it and told it is essential for life. So, what does that actually mean? What is dying to ourselves? Is there a value in suffering for the sake of suffering? No! The power and beauty of suffering come by enduring the pain and suffering of this life by joining it to the suffering of Christ.
As baptized members of His Body, we die with Him and rise with Him to know l...2023-03-3041 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastDon’t Believe the LiesDon’t Believe the Lies
Don’t Believe the Lies. Margaret Vasquez’s Testimony. When Satan can get us to question God’s goodness and who He is as our Good Father and who we are as His beloved children, anything is possible in a really bad way. It goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden. It’s the tactic he used against Adam and Eve, and he tried it again when he tempted Jesus in the desert. Satan is not the creator and he isn’t creative. He does the same things over and over. His d...2023-03-2253 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastRepentance Those Hurt by Church LeadershipRepentance Those Hurt by Church Leadership
Repentance is important, especially if you have been hurt by church leaders. I was away from the Church for a number of years because of the abuse I suffered at the hands of Church leadership. Maybe you or someone you love is in that same place in their walk. During that time, annual programs welcomed Catholics back to the Church. I felt that there was a step missing, that of acknowledging the hurt done by those in leadership. This is what we extend to you today.
If someone in Chur...2023-03-1534 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastOur Identity in ChristOur Identity in christ
Our identity is crucial to our personal wholeness and growth in holiness. It’s a buzzword these days in secular society. No matter who we are, how we live is going to flow from our identity. Another way to say it is we behave according to who we believe we are. For this very reason, the foundation of our human and spiritual integration is tied to who God is. We have to get more foundational than the fact that we are his sons and daughters. We must know what He’s like!
These da...2023-03-0836 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastInto the Desert with JesusInto the Desert with Jesus
The Scriptural basis for the 40 days of Lent is found in Jesus’ own going into the desert for 40 days after His baptism. In Matthew 4:1-11 we read (on air).
The devil tempted the Lord toward sensual satisfaction, testing the Father, power, and popularity. These are all ways in which we experience temptation, as well. We have Jesus’ example to follow and can learn something about Satan’s tactics in this.
Satan approached the Lord after He had fasted for 40 days and was hungry. How vulnerable are we when we are wor...2023-03-0111 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastLent A New SpringtimeLent A New Springtime
If you find the time of Lent to be one of heaviness and drudgery, this is the podcast for you! Fr. David and I discuss the beauty of new life that comes from eliminating the distractions and dissipation of life and allowing our hearts to be attracted to the Lord. Jesus, Himself went into the desert to be with His Father in prayer. Each year the Church gives us these 40 days to focus more intently and intentionally on our relationship with the Lord. While the Lenten obligations for Catholics are abstaining from meat on A...2023-02-2541 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastCounseling vs CoachingCounseling vs Coaching
What’s the Difference Between Counseling and Coaching?
Counseling vs Coaching. They are both used in regard to wellness these days. So, what’s the difference between them? How do I know which one is right for me? A governing body regulates counseling in each of the United States. The laws and regulations of the counselor boards state that counseling is the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders. Counselors are required to have a master’s degree in counseling and to have been supervised for many hours along the way so that the...2023-02-1422 min
Redeemed VisionEpisode 35 - On Becoming Fearless with Margaret VasquezUnnecessary suffering, anxiety, havoc, and turmoil, are due to a lack of connection to God, self, and others. The resulting fears keep us stagnating at best and most often lead to further pain and suffering. Can you relate?
Join Margaret Mary Vasquez, Founder of Sacred Heart Healing Ministries, and Steve Pokorny, Founder of Freedom Coaching, as they discuss how all of the wounds and hurts that stem from trauma can find healing and wholeness through genuine connection. If your life has gone sidewise you won't want to miss this convo!
About Margaret Vasquez: After over 15+...2023-02-101h 19Wholeness and Holiness PodcastResponse to PowerlessnessResponse to Powerlessness ~ Don’t Waste Suffering!
Our response to powerlessness. There’s a pattern I’ve noticed as a therapist and experienced personally. It’s a deeply frustrating pattern, but it’s quite typical for us as human beings. When we experience the suffering that comes from being powerless in painful circumstances, the natural fear we can tend to feel so often leads us to a place of self-reliance. However, because many situations we do not have the power to affect, this self-reliance can surely fail, leading to an experience of inadequacy that we couldn’t take c...2023-02-0815 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastPractical Connection TipsPractical Connection Tips
We all know that creating and having practical connections are harder than we think. Whether you’re a priest, religious, clergy, teacher, mental health professional, spiritual director, or medical professional, these are some ways you can boost the rapport in your relationships by honoring the dignity of those to whom you’re relating.
The four principles of practical connection are what we all need and for which we long. These tips can help us be intentional about relating in honoring and even healing ways.
Chosen – directly and intentionally engaging with someone...2023-02-0118 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastThe Key to MarriageWould you believe that the key to marriage isn’t your relationship with your spouse? Do you know that we all have the same primary vocation regardless of our state in life? The truth is that the key to marriage is that our primary vocation is that of union with the Lord! It’s true! Monks, hermits, religious, clergy, and married people all share the same call to holiness! So, if you are married that means you are called to union with the Lord first and foremost and in the living out of that you receive what you need to live y...2023-01-1720 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastWhat Is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit?Acts 1:8 “But, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you…”
Do you feel like you need power? The Lord promises it to us through His Spirit coming upon us!
If you grew up like many of us did without exposure to such language or experience, you might be wondering just what the baptism in the Holy Spirit is and how it differs from the sacrament of Baptism. We receive the indwelling of the Holy Trinity at our baptism. I heard an analogy once from Fr. Hal Cohen, S.J. who had a glass of...2023-01-1152 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastHumility: The Path to Freedom and PeaceIn Mary’s Magnificat she declares her own lowliness and rejoices in the fact that the Lord raises up the lowly. She sees and openly acknowledges her own littleness. That’s not a false humility. She is in touch with the reality of who she is before God. She also lays out a stark contrast between how God responds to the lowly as compared with how He responds to the lowly. She told her cousin Elizabeth and continues to tell us that he looked with favor on her as His lowly servant, has mercy on those who fear Him, scatters...2023-01-0351 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastOvercoming Blocks to God’s Love
Overcoming Blocks to God’s Love
Overcoming Blocks to God’s love is important, but God’s love is key to the spiritual life. As we’ve discussed in the past couple of shows, He loves us infinitely and intimately and sent Jesus to reveal His love for us, to make it manifest to us in a real way we could see through the incarnation we celebrate at Christmas. Yet, despite this fact, many times we can struggle to cling to this notion, and sometimes the experience of it is distant.
In simple terms, we...2022-12-2739 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastGod’s Love IncarnateThe Incarnation of Jesus is so crucial. Jesus is God’s love made manifest to the world! For this reason, St. Francis of Assisi saw Christmas as the highest of the feast days! When he made his conversion, God started to work in him in new and beautiful ways and right at the heart of it was Jesus coming as man. St. Francis was so touched by the humility of Jesus in coming like one of us that he set up the first nativity scene. He reasoned that it would move people’s hearts to see this with their own eyes...2022-12-2030 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastIdentity Is KeyIdentity is at the core of human and spiritual integration. It’s key to us being able to act from a mature human place and to being spiritually mature. There are so many things that clamor for our identity and that some gravitate towards – being a member of a certain club, or organization, having wealth or affluence, being a member or fan of a team. While none of these things are bad, they are NOT where our identity lies and provide no basis for our identity.
I was listening to a podcast recently by the founder...2022-12-1318 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastKeeping It RealIn the last podcast with Coach Kelly Herrmann, there was something she shared about how she has approached coaching over the years that helped her align her actions with her beliefs. I was really struck by it, and it has been a gift to me to distill those principles out of the arena of athletics (pun intended) and this is something that applies to all of us regardless of if we are athletes, coaches, parents, students, professionals, single, married, religious sisters, brothers, or clergy.
What Coach shared was that she realized she had to do wa...2022-12-0620 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastChristians in the Arena
Join me for the final episode in this series with Coach Herrmann and I discuss the role sports can play in character formation!
Coach Kelly Herrmann – now a wife, mom, grandma, health coach, author, and speaker was a fixture in sports at Franciscan University of Steubenville for decades. Having given up a full ride to play division one basketball, she attended FUS and was athletic director, head coach of women’s basketball and volleyball and intramural coordinator. She has refereed, umpired, announced games, coached little league soccer, run sports summer camps, and mentored other c...2022-11-2942 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastThe Role of Sports in Christian Character FormationJoin me as Coach Herrmann and I discuss the role sports can play in character formation!
Coach Kelly Herrmann – now a wife, mom, grandma, health coach, author, and speaker was a fixture in sports at Franciscan University of Steubenville for decades. Having given up a full ride to play division one basketball, she attended FUS and was athletic director, head coach of women’s basketball and volleyball and intramural coordinator. She has refereed, umpired, announced games, coached little league soccer, run sports summer camps, and mentored other coaches. She’s a wealth of experience and knowledge...2022-11-2243 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastFaith Formation in AthleticsMeet Coach Kelly Herrmann – Faith Formation in Athletics
Today, I’m joined by Kelly who I’ve known for about 30 years. She’s coached, refereed, umpired for decades in sports of all types and is now a wife, mother, grandmother, and health coach, author and speaker. Kelly has a passion for forming athletes in faith and spirituality and really integrating the two. She grew up on a dairy farm in Michigan and played basketball in the upstairs of their hay barn through the winter. She was living the student athlete life, doing the scorebook, coaching junior hig...2022-11-1548 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastThe Sacrament of ReconciliationThe Sacrament of Reconciliation, what we as Catholics commonly refer to as Confession, is a great and powerful occasion for grace and yet sometimes we hesitate to go out of fear, shame, and embarrassment. Margaret discusses the sacrament with Fr. David in his role as a priest of over 55 years.
Confession is a beautiful gift of healing that brings about an immediate change. Because we have an ongoing relationship with the Lord, we have immediate access to healing and forgiveness right away by turning to the Lord in repentance, even before we go to the sac...2022-11-0824 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastThe Importance of Self-ForgivenessSelf-forgiveness is highly important to mental health and spiritual growth. If we don’t have it, we can stay stymied and even spiral downwards in our relationships to ourselves, God, and others. Sometimes, we are hard on ourselves out of fear of failing even worse if we ‘let ourselves off the hook’. However, it has the opposite effect and leads us away from a healthy and holy future.
Sometimes, people are stuck because of a lack of self-worth. First, we need to receive the gift of forgiveness from God, our Father. By receiving that from the Lord, then we nee...2022-11-0125 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastPrayers versus PrayerMost people don’t receive formation in prayer. We don’t get taught how to pray and so it can be difficult to pray unless it is a structured activity. So, we can tend to look to fill the time with formal prayers and journaling. What is the difference between prayers and prayer?
Prayer isn’t just ‘caught’ it needs to be ‘taught’. Prayer is based on the Lord’s grace and so it is a gift. People can have a difficulty with a prayer time because we’re used to projects and don’t know how to sit still. We can def...2022-10-2525 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastConversion 2.0: God in My Life vs Me in God’s LifeRomans 14:7 says that we don’t live or die for ourselves, whether we live or die we are the Lord’s. The Scriptures dismantle the illusion that life is our own. The language can be used, “have you accepted God into your life” and yet it isn’t my life. When we zoom out and really look at the whole person, we realize this is God’s life we participate in. He is the initiator and orchestrator. Keeping in mind that this life is the Lord’s gives us the proper perspective.
We can come up with our own plans and a...2022-10-1828 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastJourney From the False Self to the True SelfThe true self is who we really are – made in the image and likeness of God as His sons and daughters. We’re in this place when we’re calm, compassionate and confident. The true self responds out of love and is immutable. The false self, by contrast responds from a place of fear. In many places the Scriptures talk about putting off the old man and putting on the new man. The false self is the old man, and the true self is the new man.
How do we do that? How do we make that journey? It...2022-10-1128 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastSuffering and HealingGod intends great things for our lives, but when we look at our personal sufferings, that can be hard to hold onto. What are we to do with suffering when we don’t experience healing? There can even be a misconception that there is a certain point in time at which I am finished with my healing journey or that there are people who don’t experience suffering. Neither of these are true. We all go through sufferings to one degree or another in this life and healing is an ongoing process.
Since suffering is an ongoing process...2022-10-0732 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastWhat the Lord Taught Me When I Lived with a Serial KillerIn 1997, I ended up in a roommate situation that turned out to be one of the most dramatic experiences of my life, but the Lord actually used it to teach me tremendous lessons about His wisdom, goodness, power, provision, and desire to be intimately involved in the details of our lives.
I was living in Tampa, FL and with little resources needed to find an inexpensive housing option. I responded to a classified add where two people were looking for a third roommate. Shortly after moving in, one of them relocated because of business and we needed an...2022-09-2946 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastSt. Thérèse of LisieuxMargaret and Fr. David discuss The Context of Holiness by Fr. Marc Foley, OCD as he examined human and spiritual integration in the life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Her motto of doing little things with great love leaves us a wonderful example of bringing spiritual principles to life.
She experienced a great number of sufferings thru her childhood that became places of insecurity that she overcame thru choosing to make the heroic choices. She deepened in her sense of security through her identity in the Lord. This gave her great growth in maturity and bore...2022-09-2029 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastBaptism in Fire!Margaret Vasquez, LPCC and Fr. David Tickerhoof, TOR discuss the notion of the baptism in fire that was foretold by St. John the Baptist.
There were graces of renewal flowing from Vatican Council II that brought a deepening of life, power, spiritual gifts, and in particular intimacy of relationship with the Trinity. This is known as the charismatic renewal or baptism in the Holy Spirit. Today, we see a resurgence of renewal from the Encounter movement out of Brighton, Michigan. There is a focus on understanding and practicing the spiritual gifts flowing from the relationship with...2022-09-1336 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastApplying the Principles of Human and Spiritual IntegrationPeace, freedom, and joy are available to us in this life when we live the principles of chosen, known, valued, boundaries and openness in our relationships with the Lord, ourselves, and others!
The Lord has chosen each one of us personally, knows us intimately, values us completely, and protects and provides for us. We are likewise called to respond to Him by choosing Him, growing in union with Him, valuing Him for who He is, and receiving His boundaries as gift! These becoming guiding principles for our lives to lead us toward the abundance He has...2022-09-0636 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastCharity Toward Others and Healthy RelatingCompassion, mercy, and forgiveness are essential for healthy relationships. We have to start from receiving the compassion of the Lord and in order to really do so I have to be compassionate toward myself. If not, I’ll just deflect the Lord’s love. That’s not selfish or narcissistic. It’s taking on the mind of Christ who is compassion itself! It’s authenticity and honesty, but fully embracing His stance of compassion toward ourselves.
We can learn to express compassion in our daily interactions. It doesn’t need to be complex or complicated. It just requires really ack...2022-08-3028 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastPersonal Integration and Charity Toward OthersIt’s essential for lives of wholeness and holiness that we grow in communion with the Lord, personal integration, and charity toward others. We like to encapsulate all these concepts with the simple term ‘connection’. The principles are the same in all of these relationships, being chosen, known, valued, protected and provided for.
Today’s conversation focuses on peace, freedom, and great relationships particularly through personal integration and charity toward others. This is particularly done through having mercy toward ourselves and toward others, which has been a continual theme of the last few popes. It’s really essent...2022-08-2331 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastThe Importance of Human and Spiritual IntegrationEpisode #4 – The Importance of Human and Spiritual Integration
As Christians we can tend to over spiritualize, and secular society tends to under spiritualize.
We need a paradigm by which to understand how to build a firm foundation that includes both human and spiritual maturity.
A healthy human maturity helps us break down and apply the spiritual information we take in. It helps us be refreshed by the Living Waters of the Lord and allows them to flow out of our lives in a way where they become part of who we are and how...2022-08-1630 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastDigging into the Biology of TraumaContinuing in our understanding of the biology of trauma, trauma is anything that overwhelms the person’s normal ability to cope. Inherent in that definition is the fact that you and I are different people with different pasts and perspectives. I might be traumatized by a situation that you may not feel strongly effected by. That doesn’t make one of us right and the other wrong. It’s actually due to a variety of factors having to do with what we perceive as threat.
When we are traumatized, the brain can encode any of the sensory stimuli (s...2022-08-0923 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastIntroduction to Trauma Series: Avoiding Spiritual Identity TheftEpisode #2 – Introduction to Trauma Series (Avoiding Spiritual Identity Theft!)
Have you or someone you love endured sufferings in which you continue to feel stuck? Does this leave you feeling confused or even fearful, perhaps even rejected or abandoned by God? Unfortunately, there are so many types of trauma and such experiences are so prevalent that it’s difficult to imagine someone who hasn’t been traumatized at one time or another.
Have you ever been told or thought that if you only had greater faith you’d be able to overcome feelings of abandonment...2022-08-0225 minWholeness and Holiness PodcastWhat is Wholeness and Holiness Podcast?Episode #1 – What is Wholeness and Holiness Podcast?
Have you ever wondered how our natural human lives and the spiritual life are connected? Would you believe that the study of psychology and counseling can actually serve to illuminate and deepen our relationship with the Lord? It’s true! He made us in such a way that our human and spiritual lives are intertwined. The more we live lives of human and spiritual integration the more we will deepen in the sense of peace and fulfillment He has for us.
In this podcast, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Cert...2022-07-2611 min
Article & Design38: How to Become A Highly Paid Filipino Virtual Assistant with Milna Vasquez📈 How To Become A Highly-Paid Virtual Assistant With Milna Vasquez
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Restored: Helping Children of Divorce#037: Trauma: What It Is and How It Damages You | Margaret VasquezWhat is trauma? How does it affect a person? Today, licensed trauma therapist Margaret Vasquez answers those questions and more: Why your parents' divorce, separation, or broken marriage can be so traumaticThe antidote to trauma, which will surprise youHow trauma therapy works, why it is so effective, and the incredible result she's seenBuy the book: More Than Words: The Freedom to Thrive after Trauma [affiliate link] Shownotes Question for Joey or our guests? Text us. We'll answer ...2021-02-021h 01
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