Episode 266: You're Giving Too Much! Uncovering How Anxiety Disguises Itself as Holiness

What if the reason you feel anxious, resentful, or exhausted from "doing the right thing" isn't a lack of generosity—but anxiety hiding behind virtue? This episode explores the crucial difference between authentic Christian self-gift and giving that's really about survival, revealing how true sacrifice should expand freedom, not erase you.

Key Topics:

• The difference between Christian self-gift and anxiety-driven giving
• Why humility is not the same as self-erasure
• How attachment wounds can fuel overgiving
• How dependent and narcissistic patterns reinforce each other
• Why true love always increases freedom

Learn More:

• Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)
• Casti Connubii (Encyclical of Pope Pius XI on Christian Marriage)
• Being Human episode on the Dependent Defense Pattern:
  • Ep. #265: Jerry Maguire, Gollum, and the Fear of Not Existing
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