Haunted by a Past Relationship, Wrestling with the Meaning of Death, Bringing God’s Beauty into the Psychology Classroom | ACW334
Ask Christopher West
Theology of the Body Institute
4.9 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
- Why can’t I let go of a toxic past relationship and fully embrace attraction and presence in my marriage?
- What does it mean to die with dignity, and is it right to see death as something good or redeemed?
- How can I teach psychology through a Catholic lens and reveal God’s beauty in the human mind?
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Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello everybody. This is Juan, producer of the podcast. I just wanted to give you a heads-up. |
| 0:04.6 | We are changing our podcast host, so you will stop seeing new episode updates in the Ask Christopher |
| 0:09.3 | West.com website. The podcast will still be available on major streaming platforms, but no longer |
| 0:14.7 | on the website. So if you want to submit a question, just go to the show notes and you will |
| 0:18.8 | find a link there to do so. God bless. |
| 0:24.9 | From the Theology of the Body Institute, this is the Ask Christopher West podcast. |
| 0:38.9 | Oh, hey everybody. |
| 0:39.8 | Hi, listeners. |
| 0:41.3 | Thanks so much for tuning in. |
| 0:42.6 | We're happy to be with you today. |
| 0:43.2 | We are. |
| 0:51.9 | I have a Bruce Springsteen song in my head, which, as you know, Wendy, and actually lots of people know, is not unusual. |
| 0:52.6 | That's true. |
| 0:54.1 | But this is the song I have, I'm driving in my car, |
| 0:57.3 | I turn on the radio. Why do you think that's on my brain? Well, we were talking about |
| 1:05.0 | driving and roads. We were. Can I share something about that? Share what you learned. This is, this was fascinating |
| 1:12.0 | to me. Yeah, so I'll just say this. We've homeschooled our children, and there are times when |
| 1:18.3 | that is really enriching because of the things that I learn from teaching, you know, which is a joy. |
| 1:25.8 | It's a joy to learn new things. You are very well-educated |
| 1:29.0 | about certain things. About things that I'm not well-educated on. I've studied them a few |
| 1:34.9 | times with five kids. But with our daughter right now, I'm doing a driver's ed course and |
| 1:42.3 | was learning something about the numbering of highways that |
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