Catholic Exchange
The podcast for Catholic Exchange, your daily source for spiritual encouragement and information. Our goal is to help make saints in our time. Join editor Kristen Van Uden and several CE authors discussing articles and the latest topics.
Catholic Exchange
A Catholic Approach to Mental Health
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Catholic Exchange
Kristen is joined by Kimberly Perez, M.S., LMHC, Catholic Licensed Mental Health Counselor and the founder of Divine Mercy Healing & Counseling Center in Fort Myers, Florida, to discuss the relationship between the Faith and mental health.
Topics include:
- Embracing our inherent worthiness as children of God
- The relationship between sin and woundedness
- Problems with the secular approach to mental health
- How to discern whether an ailment is primarily spiritual or psychological
- Healing through prayer and the sacraments
- Pride and self-love as the root of sin
- Why worldly pursuits inevitably make us unhappy
- Scrupulosity
- Self-esteem and spiritual warfare
- How narcissists and other abusers use the same tactics and lies of demons
- Efficacious suffering vs. toleration of abuse--how to know the difference
- Despair and perseverance
