Welcome back to the Let's Be Friends podcast.

With us today is a friend of God, Father Timothy Pavlatos.

Father Timothy is a priest at St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church in Chandler, Arizona. Father Timothy has an extensive,

educational, and practical background in therapy, receiving his bachelor's in psychology,

neurobiology, and trauma, and at one time working as an impatient addiction therapist for

adolescents. He also received his master's in divinity from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.

Since pursuing his education and work as a therapist and priest, he has dedicated much of his time and attention to the integration of Orthodox theology and spirituality as it relates to the therapeutic process of counseling.

Welcome to the show, Father Timothy.

Thank you. Nice to be on.

I'm really honored to have you here today.

I appreciate so much you taking the time to be here and speak to us.

Well, it took a few tries, but I think we got to it eventually.

Yeah, this is definitely the day that it was meant to be.

Yes, absolutely, absolutely.

So in this episode, I would really like to take a look at the spiritual battle that we are all going through.

The battlegrounds specifically in the mind, like mental struggles, demonic influence,

and fighting the evil within our hearts,

rather than focusing on that in the outside world.

I know I shared a little bit about my Christian background with you,

but I'm not sure if I mentioned that I've really spent a lot of my life afflicted by mental issues

since I was a little girl, And I was actually misdiagnosed

bipolar by five psychiatrists over eight years in my late 20s to 30s. I found out when I was on

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