A Catholic Approach to Mental Health

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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

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Image: The Door of the Fold, Sybil Parker (1895)