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54 Masturbation Recovery Stories

Episode 54 Published 5 years, 1 month ago
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  1. Intro: Welcome to the podcast Interior Integration for Catholics 
    1. 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.  
    2. In this podcast, we confront the tough questions we Catholics have in our day-to-day lives, we confront head on our struggles in the natural realm, the psychological difficulties that keep us from fully loving our Lord and our Lady in a deep, personal, intimate way. 
    3. And we deal with these difficult, demanding issues for one primary reason: to free you to love God our Father, Jesus our Brother, the Holy Spirit and Our Mother Mary more and more over time.  
    4. This podcast helps you focus inward on your interior integration -- to help you bring together the different parts of yourself into unity and harmony with God.
    5. 'Together, we are on a journey toward deep transformation in our mindsets, our heartsets and our bodysets, a radical transformation at the core of our being so that our souls can one day enter into contemplative union with God. 
    6. I’m clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski and I am here with you, to be your host and guide.  
    7. This podcast is part of Souls and Hearts, our online outreach at soulsandhearts.com, which is all about shoring up our natural foundation for the Catholic spiritual life, all about overcoming psychological obstacles to being loved and to loving God and neighbor
    8. This is episode 54, released on February 8, 2021
    9. This is the sixth episode in our series on sexuality and the fourth one on masturbation.  
    10. And it is titled:  Masturbation Recovery Stories
    11. We're following up on our last three episodes, number 51, 52 and 53, which have all been about masturbation, the Top 10 reasons why Catholic men masturbate, the 10 common mistakes they make as they try to recover from masturbation and live chaste lives, and the 20 remedies for those 10 common mistakes.   
    12. we're getting into answers for Catholics who experience masturbation as a dead-end, as a failed promise, as an inadequate answer for their deeper needs and desires. 
    13. So today, we're pulling all the conceptual information together and we are going to do three things.
    14. First, We will briefly review the 10 common mistakes and the 20 remedies for those mistakes
    15. Second, will discuss how to make an individualized recovery plan for masturbation
    16.  Third, we will pull all the information together into the stories of Richard and Luis, who we introduced in episode 51 -- we will review their histories, look at the mistakes they made is trying to free themselves from masturbation, discuss how they made their individualized plans for recovery, and how they broke free from masturbation.  
  2. Review:  
    1. 10 Common Mistakes that Catholics make in breaking free from masturbation:
       
      1. Considering masturbation as the primary problem. -- Gotta go deeper
    2.  
      1. Pursuing compartmentalization or fragmentation instead of interior integration
    3.  
      1. Going it alone
    4.  
      1. Using only the spiritual means
    5.  
      1. Having a Power spirituality or a macho spirituality
    6.  
      1. Passive Spirituality
    7.  
      1. The why for the change
    8.  
      1. Shaming the self for failures
    9.  
      1. The All or Nothing Trap
    10.  
      1.  Failing to see the struggle with masturbation as a gift
    11.  
    12. 20 Remedies for those mistakes
       
      1. Commit to finding the real reason, with God's help.
    13.  
      1.  Bring God or Mary or a saint or your angel  into the search for the underlying causes
    14.  
      1. Co
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