In this episode, you will hear a very meaningful conversation that I had with Taylor Clarke, one of my classmates at Houston Christian University. We were in the graduate program together to become clinical mental health counselors, and I could tell that she had a story to tell. I also had a curiosity to learn more about her experience with DBT and addiction recovery. What you will hear is a very candid and heartfelt testimony of her struggles, but also a passion for helping others. She found that a large part of her personal transformation was spurred on by the deeply meaningful connections to her loved ones and her spirituality.

https://www.clarkewellnesscounseling.com/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/taylor-clarke-galveston-tx/1442375

You are more than a meat computer!

Cognitive Embodiment - Neuroscience rejects Cartesian Duality.

"Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work" by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal

Cognitive Imperative in "Why God Won't Go Away" by Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, and Vince Rause

"The soul is the first grade of actuality of a natural body having life potentially in it." Aristotle

Aquinas 101 with Fr. Gregory Maria Pine https://youtu.be/mTzNGUCJkm4?si=PxGg7f5y4J6_vp_0

"I know who I am. I am a ghost in the shell... a life form that has transcended its physical limitations. I am evolving. I am becoming a new being. I am something more... something new. And I am not alone." Ghost in the Shell 1995

"When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known." 1 Cor 13:11-12

Greg Nolan of Birmingham UK is an accredited psychotherapist who has been working in Mental Health Services for nearly two decades. His practice is informed by a Christian perspective of the psyche (soul) and our relationship with the world around us. His core premise is that our intellect and free will govern our passions as enumerated by St. Thomas Aquinas. Greg does a great job of explaining the Thomistic understanding of the spirit, soul, and body composite, in a way that anyone with an open mind can understand.

Greg Nolan has his course on Overcoming Depression with Catholic CBT available online through his website that is christian-psychotherapy.co.uk and it is available to anyone who is struggling with depression and is open to the Christian concept of the human soul.

The difference between the soul and the spirit...

https://youtu.be/R2_t7nW6MZQ?si=xUuErdqr5R3Djb8v

https://youtu.be/60bb3n8YV44?si=-Unw-xM1E8c6gafm