My dear fellow pilgrim, have you ever wondered how unprocessed trauma in your family and culture of origin may have distorted how you relate to God and live out your faith?  After I fell in love with Christ, I decided that my faith would be the most important determinant of my identity. I thought...

One of the most significant discoveries I made in 2024 was that my cherished Catholic faith - as I have known and experienced it for most of my life - has been a trauma response. That is, the way I have understood, absorbed and practiced my Catholic faith has been from a place of compulsion and n...

I am a little embarrassed to share this with you, but in the years 2009-2015, my spiritual life had such a steep, continuous "ascent" in terms of how close I felt to God, how consistent I was in my prayer and sacramental life, and how much I learned intellectually about my faith that I actually t...