132 Catholic Psychologist's Take on Inner Healing & Forgiveness w/ Dr. Matthew Breuninger
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Matthew Leonard
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
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We all need healing...every last one of us.
And the latest Art of Catholic Podcast episode explores a bit of a different, but powerful angle on the topic that can make all the difference when it comes to healing deep emotional wounds and finding true freedom.
Most Catholics are at least somewhat familiar with the idea of redemptive suffering.
It's what your mom was referring to every time you stubbed your toe as a kid and she'd tell you to "offer it up."
Redemptive suffering takes place when we unite our own trials to Christ's through a simple act of the will and obtain graces for ourselves and others.
But have you ever heard of redemptive healing?
In my conversation with Catholic psychologist and Franciscan University of Steubenville professor Dr. Matthew Breuninger, we discuss what redemptive healing is and why approaching inner healing through a trusting relationship with God is the only way to make real progress.
We also hit topics like:
-The powerful role of forgiveness in healing
-How suffering mistakenly becomes normalized
-Why living for security robs us of freedom
-The difference between pain and suffering
-How we can experience freedom in Christ and still carry wounds.
So if you or anyone you know has struggled to heal from interior wounds, this is an episode you don't want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the art of Catholic. |
| 0:05.8 | In John 5.6, Jesus asked the paralytic of the pool of Bethesotha, do you want to be healed? |
| 0:18.8 | And that's the question I want to pose to you today. |
| 0:20.8 | Do you want to be healed? |
| 0:21.8 | And I'm not talking about some kind of like a faith healing service or anything like that. I'm talking about healing back the layers of our |
| 0:27.8 | deepest self, our anxieties, our wounds, our sufferings, all of those things, and beginning to |
| 0:34.4 | experience the healing light of Jesus Christ. And to that end, to answer that question, I brought |
| 0:39.3 | in a friend of mine, Dr. Matthew Bruninger. And Dr. Bruninger is, I'm gonna call him Matthew from now on, because I feel too awful, |
| 0:45.8 | I'll call him Dr. Bruninger. |
| 0:47.1 | But Matthew is an associate professor of psychology |
| 0:51.5 | at Franciscan University of Stubinville. |
| 0:53.8 | He's also a research fellow at the Austin Institute |
| 0:56.5 | for the study of family and culture. |
| 0:58.7 | And he has a thriving private practice in downtown Stubinville. |
| 1:02.6 | You can find him at Wellespring, counseling and coaching and last but not least he wrote a book called |
| 1:08.0 | Finding Freedom in Christ healing life's hurts and I'm going through it right |
| 1:12.7 | now I'm a good ways through it as you can tell by the bookmark and I love it it's |
| 1:16.2 | it's wonderful and so I am glad to welcome you to the show Matthew. Glad to be |
| 1:20.8 | here. Thanks. As I said you you are a professor of psychology. You've got this private practice |
| 1:26.9 | And so you're dealing with people's wounds and the pain that they experience all the time |
| 1:32.1 | But you have kind of a hairy backstory, so to speak and I bring it up because it seems to beautifully set you up for what it is that you are doing now |
| 1:41.1 | So give us a little bit of that if you would |
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