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41 Rewind: Trauma and Shame in King David's Childhood

Episode 41 Published 5 years, 4 months ago
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  1. Intro: Welcome to the podcast Coronavirus Crisis: Carpe Diem!, where by God’s grace, you and I rise up and embrace the possibilities and opportunities for spiritual and psychological growth in this time of crisis, all grounded in a Catholic worldview.   We are going beyond mere resilience, to rising up to the challenges of this pandemic and becoming even healthier in the natural and the spiritual realms than we were before.  I’m clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski and I am here with you, to be your host and guide.  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.  
    1. This is episode 41, released on November 9, 2020
    2. Thank you for being here with me.  
    3. and it is the fifth episode in our series on shame.  
    4. and it is titled: Rewind: Trauma and Shame in King David's Childhood
    5. We cover really difficult topics in this podcast -- 
      1. we go to the really challenging places that other podcasts are unwilling or unable to go.  
      2. Because we have to.  Because people are caught in those places and they are hurting, because people are trapped and people are in danger, they are in peril.  
      3. And we need to reach out to them.  
      4. And you know what?  We are those people too.  
        1. We have parts of us trapped in bad places, places we don't understand, places we are afraid of, places that we don't want to go by ourselves, all alone
        2. But together, each of us can understand much more of our unconscious.    
    6. This is the second of a subseries highly experiential episodes -- these episodes are opportunities for experiential learning -- to learn a lot about yourself -- about who you really are, about your history.  
      1. St. Paul
         
        1. Romans 7:15   I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 

        1. Romans 7:18b-19  I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want [that] is what I do. 

        1. St. Paul doesn't understand himself -- St. Paul, a pillar of virtue, author of half the books in the New Testament, St. Paul, who endured outrageous sufferings, amazing self sacrifice -- he's admitting to being dominated by his unconscious.  

        1. Isn't a question of willpower -- Paul had extraordinary willpower, hard to imagine many saints that can best him in terms of willpower.  

        1. It’s a question of insight.  Of understanding.  
          1. Won't be complete
          2. But we can have much more insight and understanding than we do now.  

    7. Continuing story of Princess Tamar, Crown Prince Amnon, Prince Absalom, and King David
       
      1. But diving much deeper into in the inner experience of these characters and others 
        1. Why did they do the things that they did
        2. Why did they say the things that they did
        3. What were they thinking, feeling, sensing, believing, desiring, seeking
        4. And what where they missing, what where they forgetting, not noticing?
        5. What made them tick?

      1. Through clinical eyes.  

      1. Much more to the story than the brief account in 2 Samuel 13
         
        1. We will be using other sources -- e.g. archeology to help us understand the time and culture
      2.  
        1. But also psychological insights about shame, trauma, the motives for the rape, 


      1. Why -- not just to understand this story and the people this story
    11.  
      1. But to help you understand your story and the people
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