CS 1849: Living Mental Wellness with Catherine DiNuzzo: Tuesday

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 9 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.

Find fun, meaningful, faith-filled projects for your own family in the Catholic Family Resource Library. https://catholicsprouts.com/catholic-family-resource-library-signup/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to
0:07.4	Catholic Sprouts,
0:10.4	the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.
0:27.8	Hey there, sprouts. I'm Catherine Danuto, your guest host this week. Today is Wednesday,
0:34.7	April 9th, 2025, during the fifth week of Lent. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are discussing mental wellness.
0:43.7	Today, we are going to talk about what we can do when our animal brain thinks that we're in danger,
0:47.1	but our thinking brain knows that we're not.
0:49.7	And those two are in disagreement with each other.
0:56.6	If you didn't listen to yesterday's podcast, I recommend you pausing now and going back and listening because it will explain all the things you need to know to better understand today's episode.
1:02.1	So we're talking about the animal brain and the thinking brain.
1:06.6	Remembering that our animal brain is the part of our brain that God gave us to keep us safe when we're in danger. And our thinking brain is the part of our brain that God gave us to keep us safe when we're in danger.
1:12.4	And our thinking brain is the part of our brain that helps us make decisions on what we're going to do.
1:18.2	When our animal brain thinks that we're in danger, but our thinking brain knows we're safe,
1:23.8	sometimes we can start to feel very scared and confused.
1:31.1	And so what we have to do is find ways to explain to our animal brain what's going on and that we're safe, even though it thinks it's not.
1:37.5	Now there's something really important that you need to understand about the animal brain.
1:41.7	It doesn't listen to the thinking brain. And God did that as a gift to keep
1:45.9	us safe when we're in danger. Because let's imagine that you had to run from that scary snake the other
1:51.6	day. We don't want to be thinking too much about how scary that snake is. We just need our body
1:57.9	to react to keep us safe. But this gets really hard when our animal brain thinks something is scary and our thinking
2:04.5	brain knows it's not.
2:06.2	And the thinking brain keeps saying, it's not scary.
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