What makes a good marriage? In this wide-ranging discussion with Dr. Gerry Crete and David Edwards, we address this question from so many angles, bringing Internal Family System, Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottmans’ family therapy work and addressing idealization, love, vulnerability, attachment, wounds, conflict, devaluation, friendship, pressure, commitment, patience, giving, forgiveness, receiving, sacrifice. We explore how managers, firefighters, and exiles experience marriage and explore ways that marriage move beyond surviving to flourishing.
Souls and Hearts have an amazing searchable archive of hundreds of resources on Catholicism and Internal Family Systems in dozens of topics, with an AI assistant to help you find what you need. Check it out here:
https://www.soulsandhearts.com/archive
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Resilient Catholics Community (RCC) opens just three months each year: February, June and October. We will begin accepting applications for our 14th cohort on October 1.
Nearly 300 faithful Catholics are learning to love themselves, God, and others more fully in community, using the best of human formation resources grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person, informed by IFS and grounded in a Catholic understanding of the human person.
As members work through materials in small groups and with companions, they experience the beauty, messiness and realness of human relationships in a safe environment, helping them first to love themselves in an ordered way and, later, learning to radiate that love upward to God and outward to others. Learn more and sign up for the interest list:
https://members.soulsandhearts.com/rcc
Plan to attend our live Zoom informational meeting to learn more. The meeting will be from 8 PM to 9:15 PM on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jyHHqRKiRYaDGWMaij4-1A
What is Interior Integration for Catholics?
The mission of this podcast is the formation of your heart in love and for love, Together, we shore up the natural, human foundation for your spiritual formation as a Catholic. St. Thomas Aquinas asserts that without this inner unity, without this interior integration, without ordered self-love, you cannot enter loving union with God, your Blessed Mother, or your neighbor. Informed by Internal Family Systems approaches and grounded firmly in a Catholic understanding of the human person, this podcast brings you the best information, the illuminating stories, and the experiential exercises you need to become more whole in the natural realm. This restored human formation then frees you to better live out the three loves in the two Great Commandments – loving God, your neighbor, and yourself. Check out the Resilient Catholics Community which grew up around this podcast at https://www.soulsandhearts.com/rcc.