CS 1852: Living Mental Wellness with Catherine DiNuzzo: Friday

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 8 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,
0:10.4	the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.
0:27.7	Hey there, Sprouts. I'm Catherine Danuto, the guest host this week. Today is Friday,
0:35.2	April 11, 2025, the feast day of St. Stanislaus and St. Gemma. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we have been discussing mental wellness.
0:39.3	Over the last few days, we have talked about a number of different components that build up mental wellness.
0:46.3	We have talked about what mental wellness is.
0:49.3	We've talked about how to feel our feelings and know that they're not bad.
0:56.4	We also talked about the beautiful and amazing body and brain that God gave us and the feelings that come with that brain and how
1:02.3	it works and how those all work together. And for today, our last day to meet, I really want to
1:09.4	talk to you about part of mental wellness that I think
1:12.6	sometimes is the hardest part, and that's talking about our feelings. Sometimes when we have
1:19.1	feelings, we don't know who we can talk to them about. And sometimes we're even a little scared,
1:25.1	because we don't know if we should have the feelings or how the person will react when we tell them.
1:30.0	But I want to challenge you, Sprouts, to think about the people in your life who are safe to talk to.
1:37.4	Is it mom? Is it dad? Maybe grandma, grandpa? Is it someone at church or a friend from school? Knowing that there's lots of people
1:46.8	in our life that are there to listen and to love us is very important. We also have God,
1:53.9	Mama Mary, and all the saints. It's so important to know that there are many people in our lives
1:59.8	that we can talk to when we need to.
2:02.4	I want to give you a couple of hints and strategies for when you have feelings and you want to
2:09.6	talk to someone about them. How do you go about doing that? So the first thing to do is to give
2:15.3	yourself a minute to think about the feeling. What am I feeling?
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