CS 1850: Living Mental Wellness with Catherine DiNuzzo: Wednesday

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🗓️ 9 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, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.
0:29.1	Hello again, Sprouts. It's Catherine Danuto, your guest host for this week. Today is Wednesday,
0:38.6	April 9th, 2025 during the fifth week of Lent. This week on Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are discussing mental wellness.
0:44.1	Today we're going to talk more about the animal brain and the thinking brain,
0:48.0	and what happens when those two are just disagreeing.
0:50.7	If you didn't listen to the podcast yesterday, I highly recommend that you pause the podcast now and go ahead and listen to Tuesday's podcast,
0:58.1	which will help you with giving you all the information that you need to better understand today's
1:04.4	podcast. So Sprouts, let's talk about that animal brain and that thinking part of our brain and how they communicate.
1:12.7	That animal brain, when it starts to think that you're in danger, again, we're on that path and we see a big hairy bear and we smell its stinkiness and hear its roar and see its sharp teeth. All of those senses go straight
1:30.2	to the animal brain. And what does that animal brain say? We're in danger. We're in danger.
1:35.5	We're going to die. And because God loves you, it has that animal brain start producing all
1:42.9	these hormones that keep us safe. And what are some of the
1:45.9	things that that hormone does to keep us safe? The first thing it does is it makes our heartbeat
1:52.3	really fast. This is really important because if I have to fight a bear, I need all the oxygen
1:58.9	I can to fight the bear. It also makes our tummy a little sick
2:03.3	because it doesn't want to be digesting all this food while it's fighting the bear. So sometimes
2:09.4	we have a sick stomach. Another feeling we start to feel like is our muscles getting ready
2:15.0	to run on a fight. Those muscles are getting all the blood and
2:18.7	energy they need so you can fight that bear or run as fast as you need to. And then the last thing it does
2:24.7	is sometimes it makes it really hard to think because when the animal brain is trying to keep you
2:30.5	alive, it's trying really hard to do it without your thinking brain. Because if my
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