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Are You Repeating Your Parents' Mistakes? Unpacking The Bowen Family Theory

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Fr. Bonaventure and Fr. Joseph-Anthony sit down to discuss the Bowen Family Systems Theory, its basic concepts, how to understand them, and why Catholic specifically should care about this theory.  For more on the Bowen Family Systems Theory:https://www.thebowencenter.org/ Send your questions for the friars to:[email protected]   Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsYour Eucharistic Identity: https://ignatius.com/your-eucharistic-identity-yeip/St. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social MediaFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.orgTo support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0

This is Father Joseph Anthony Cress.

0:07.5

And this is Father Bonameter Chapman.

0:09.2

And welcome to Godsplaining.

0:11.6

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0:21.9

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0:27.5

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0:33.5

So Father Bonaventure, we are back at it again. We are.

0:35.9

Around another episode.

0:36.9

It is. So we're going to make the connection here in a moment. Okay. But the first question I have for you is growing up. Yes. Saturday morning, you wake up a little later. You don't have school. And I don't know. Did you do a hot breakfast on Saturday morning? Was that the thing? I don't, not all the time maybe, sometimes, but I mean, we were a big cereal kind of people.

0:58.6

Yeah, same a real cereal, but we did, I was cereal pretty much all the time.

1:01.9

Yeah.

1:02.7

So Honey Nut Cheerios for the win.

1:04.1

That was our family cereal of choice.

1:06.1

So you sit down with a bowl of cereal Saturday morning.

1:10.6

What was your go to Saturday morning cartoon that you would watch?

1:13.8

Yeah, good question.

1:15.5

There were two Saturday shows.

1:18.0

One was, it was very short-lived, but which you would appreciate, I suppose.

1:21.6

This one is called ProStars.

1:24.1

So this was a maybe six-episode thing, which involved Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, and

1:31.8

Bo Jackson. And they also had like a communal mom. And they were kind of like crime fighters.

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