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73 Is Internal Family Systems Really Catholic?

Episode 73 Published 4 years, 9 months ago
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  1. Introduction
  2. 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.  
    1. With every fiber of our being, every last little bit of ourselves.  
    2. To love God in every internal experience -- every thought, emotion, body sensation, intention, impulse attitude, belief, assumption, every desire -- every internal experience oriented toward loving God. 
    3. Nothing within us oriented any other way.  That's the challenge, that's what that commandment means.   
  3. Fr. Jacques Phillipe:  
    1. Searching for and Maintaining Peace  -- may be my most favorite book  
    2. In order that abandonment might be authentic and engender peace, it must be total.  Must put everything, without exception, into the hands of God, not seeking any longer to manage or” to save” ourselves by her own means: not in the material domain, nor the emotional, nor the spiritual.  We cannot divide human existence and the various sectors: certain sectors where it would be legitimate to surrender ourselves to God with confidence in others where, on the contrary, we feel we must manage exclusively on her own.  And one thing we know well: all reality that we have not surrendered to God, that we choose to manage by ourselves without giving carte blanche to God, will continue to make us more or less uneasy.  The measure of our interior piece will be that of our abandonment, consequently of our detachment.  Page 37
       
      1. No-go Zones.  Wikipedia A "no-go area" or "no-go zone" is a neighborhood or other geographic area where some or all outsiders either are physically prevented from entering or can enter only at risk.
    3.  
      1. God doesn't come in here.  Compartmentalization, lack of integration.  
        1. Recreational time -- not when I'm watching football, not when I'm playing poker, not when I'm gossiping with my friends.  
        2. Work life -- dog eat dog world, highly competitive business, sometimes we have to do things we're not proud of…
        3. Sex life -- caught between my partner and my beliefs
        4. My private attachments -- drinking, flirting, shopping -- whatever we are attached to.  
        5. Deep shame.  Deep rage.  Deep Sadness,  Deep fear.  Inner darkness.  
        6. Trauma Zones -- betrayal, abandonment, terror, --attempts to seal that all off, from everything and everyone in order to keep functioning, to keep on with daily activities.  

  4. Intro -- Welcome to Interior Integration for Catholics
     
    1. I’m clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski and I am here to help guide you toward  loving God, neighbor and yourself in an ordered, healthy, holy way.
       
      1. And how do I do that?
         
        1. By focusing on your natural level impediments, your psychological obstacles to tolerated being loved and to loving God, neighbor and ourselves in the best ways possible
           
          1.  it's all about your human formation 

          1. It's all about shoring up your natural foundation for the spiritual life 

          1. So many of our spiritual problems are really rooted in our human formation, our natural foundation for the spiritual life
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    1. This is Episode 73, 
      1. Released on June 21, 2021 and titled  Is Internal Family Systems Really Catholic?
      2. I get this question a lot -- Internal Family Systems or IFS has exploded on the therapy scene, especially in the last 10 years and especially as a modality for working with trauma. 
        1. It makes sense -- we don't want anything to keep us from God.  
        2. Great contribution -- 
        3. Synthesis of two paradigms
           
          1. Plural mind -- we all contain many different parts
             
            1. A mind in conversation with itself denotes a non-unitary, relational mind
          2.  
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