CS 1848: Living Mental Wellness with Catherine DiNuzzo: Monday

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This week on Catholic Sprouts, Catherine DiNuzzo (a Catholic Licensed Professional Counselor) will take the children through a very basic understanding of living mental wellness, including understanding their feelings (helping them to know that feelings are good and that they can be expressed). She also goes through an age-appropriate understanding of how the body and brain function regarding fears and scary things. Catherine connects the dots by sharing good physical ways to utilize the senses and physical movement to calm the body (heart, stomach, and brain) as well as how special the gift of the Church is for our spiritual mental wellness, and how God always knew exactly what we needed. *Catherine purposefully left out the term “anxiety” because it frequently becomes a label that a child may too easily associate with.

Mon: What mental wellnes is and understanding our feelings.

Tue: How our brains and feelings work together.

Wed: Tangible, physical strategies to help us work through and manage our feelings.

Thu: How the Church helps us understand and live out mental wellness.

Fri: How to talk to others about our feelings.

Hello! I'm Catherine DiNuzzo, a Catholic speaker, Licensed Professional Counselor, and author of the Catholicbest-seller “The Catholic Guide Through Anxiety”. I am also a mother of 4 teenagers, navigating the trenches with my husband as we strive to raise our kids into saints! I want to provide you with resources, tools, and information to help you grow in your faith and mental wellness. Over on my website, SacredHeartMentalWellness.com, we've provided free resources and information specifically for Catholic Sprouts parents, as well as some products and options to help tackle the realities of raising children in our culture where actually experiencing mental wellness is so difficult.

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0:00.0	You're listening to
0:07.4	Catholic Sprouts,
0:10.5	the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.
0:27.0	Hey there, Sprouts. I'm Catherine DeNuto, your host for this week. I am a Catholic speaker, author, licensed professional counselor, and Mama 4. Today is April 7, 2025, the Feast of
0:34.8	St. John Baptist de LaSalle. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are discussing
0:40.7	mental wellness. And today, we are going to talk about what mental wellness is. Many of you have
0:47.4	probably heard of physical wellness. You know about how important it is to eat good food that
0:53.5	nourishes our body and makes us nice and strong
0:56.2	and how we need to get out and get exercise and get our bodies moving so that our bodies can be
1:01.0	as healthy as they can be mental wellness is very similar it's about how do we make our minds
1:07.6	as healthy as they can be i've been a counselor for many years, and often I have clients
1:12.9	who will tell me that it's not okay for them to have feelings, that it's not okay to feel mad or sad
1:19.7	or scared, that there must be something wrong with them if they have feelings. But this is not the case.
1:26.2	Feelings are normal, and God gave us feelings. And nothing God
1:30.3	gave us is bad. The reality is we have to learn how to manage those feelings. We have to learn how to
1:36.5	work with those feelings. So let me give you an example. Let's say that you're playing with one of your
1:42.9	siblings and they steal your toy.
1:45.4	My guess is at first you get kind of mad and maybe you want to hit them.
1:49.8	It's kind of normal to feel mad when someone steals the toy that you're playing with,
1:54.1	but we know that it's not okay for us to hit them.
1:57.6	There has to be another way to let them know our feelings and know that we don't want
2:02.6	them to take our toy. This is what mental wellness is. It's learning how to see that you have a
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