“It takes a village to raise a family…” And more. Join Dr. Gerry Crete, Bridget Adams, and Dr. Peter Malinoski for an in-depth exploration of how our internal systems impact our external systems. We address themes of belonging, how families bond, healthy boundaries, and how broader social systems – neighborhoods, schools, parishes, peer groups, sports teams, and so on – impact families and vice versa. Join us!

If you want to invest in your own flourishing to better love your family members and other, check out our Resilient Catholics Community (RCC). We equip Catholics to love God, themselves, and others through better human formation, grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person, and informed by Internal Family Systems. More here: https://www.soulsandhearts.com/rcc

And if you accompany others in their personal formation, check out our Formation for Formators community here: https://www.soulsandhearts.com/fff

No one parents perfectly, but how do we as parents best love our children, how do we create a family environment in which children will thrive? How do we animate our homes with love? How do we create conditions for children to form secure bonds with Mom and Dad? How do we discipline from love rather than from anger or fear? How do children’s God images form? How do we help children launch successfully from the home into the world? Join Dr. Gerry Crete, Theresa Robinson, and Dr. Peter as we discuss the answers to these and so many more questions, all grounded in a Catholic worldview and through an IFS lens.

Do you want the human formation that can help you be a better parent, informed by IFS and grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person? And do you want to go on this adventure with other likeminded Catholics together in community? If so, the Resilient Catholics Community may be just what you need. The RCC offers a structured, step-by-step way to better come to understand and love your own parts, so you can better understand others in their parts. The RCC opens for new applications in the months of October, February and June. Find out more here: https://soulsandhearts.com/rcc. Have questions? Contact Dr. Peter at crisis@soulsandhearts.com or at 317.567.9594.

Applying to the RCC includes the PartsFinder Pro; you can download examples of the reports for a man and a woman:

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/zgqdzv21hjwxax5/PFP_Sample_-_Man.pdf/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/dbtd91dksh7v56c/PFP+Sample+-+Woman.pdf/file

And you can take in a 19-minute experiential exercise about discerning whether or not to apply here: https://media.transistor.fm/d601eb42/521341ff.mp3

Check out Theresa Robinson’s practice, Greenhouse Counselling, here: https://www.greenhousecounselling.com

Dr. Gerry’s Parting Thoughts movie and film reviews are here: https://www.soulsandhearts.com/content/parting-thoughts/

And his Kingdom Within series is here: https://www.soulsandhearts.com/content/parting-thoughts/

Dr. Peter’s semimonthly reflections, including his series on the relational works of mercy are here: https://www.soulsandhearts.com/content/blog/

What makes a good marriage? In this wide-ranging discussion with Dr. Gerry Crete and David Edwards, we address this question from so many angles, bringing Internal Family System, Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottmans’ family therapy work and addressing idealization, love, vulnerability, attachment, wounds, conflict, devaluation, friendship, pressure, commitment, patience, giving, forgiveness, receiving, sacrifice. We explore how managers, firefighters, and exiles experience marriage and explore ways that marriage move beyond surviving to flourishing.

Dr. Gerry Crete’s practice: Transfiguration, is here: https://www.transfiguration.co/

David Edward’s practice, St. Joseph Counseling is here: https://www.stjosephcounseling.com/

Souls and Hearts have an amazing searchable archive of hundreds of resources on Catholicism and Internal Family Systems in dozens of topics, with an AI assistant to help you find what you need. Check it out here: https://www.soulsandhearts.com/archive

The Resilient Catholics Community (RCC) opens just three months each year: February, June and October. We will begin accepting applications for our 14th cohort on October 1.

Nearly 300 faithful Catholics are learning to love themselves, God, and others more fully in community, using the best of human formation resources grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person, informed by IFS and grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person.

As members work through materials in small groups and with companions, they experience the beauty, messiness and realness of human relationships in a safe environment, helping them first to love themselves in an ordered way and, later, learning to radiate that love upward to God and outward to others. Learn more and sign up for the interest list: https://members.soulsandhearts.com/rcc

Plan to attend our live Zoom informational meeting to learn more. The meeting will be from 8 PM to 9:15 PM on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jyHHqRKiRYaDGWMaij4-1A