Intro: Welcome to the podcast Coronavirus Crisis: Carpe Diem!, where by God’s grace, you and I rise up and embrace the possibilities and opportunities for spiritual and psychological growth right now, in these days, all grounded in a Catholic worldview. This podcast is about transformation -- a radical transformation of self, overcoming anything that gets in the way of us loving God our Father and Mary our Mother with the trust and dependence of a little child. This podcast is all about real love in real relationships and it's messy. I’m clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski and I am here with you, to be your host and guide. This podcast is part of Souls and Hearts, our online outreach at soulsandhearts.com, which is all about shoring up our natural foundation for the Catholic spiritual life, all about overcoming psychological obstacles to being loved and to loving God and neighbor -- This is episode 47, released on December 21, 2020
and it is titled: Shame and Redemption: St. Peter and You
it is the 11th episode in our series on shame.
Thank you for being here with me.
This episode stands alone
Episodes 37, 38 and 39 lay out the conceptual foundations on shame
Last episode we discussed how shame can lead to tragedy in the story of Judas Iscariot.
Continuing to illustrate shame and related concepts with stories
Now we are going to look at an story of intense shame and redemption.
The story of the Apostle Peter
Really going to look inside of Peter's mind, heart, body and soul today
Really focus on understanding what happened in his life
Making sense of his decisions, his choices
I share his name. I connect with him, he makes so much sense to me. Very similar parts.
In our fallen world, in our fallen human condition, all of us have elements of what Peter struggled with.
We can learn from Peter's redemption
Profiling St. Peter
Teaching you to recognize parts in other, parts in yourself
I am an IFS therapist -- really interested in parts of people
Understanding parts really helps us grow in the understanding of ourselves and others
Socrates: Know thyself
Jesus: Removing the beam in your own eye
Recognizing, identifying your parts and the parts of others is really helpful for loving the other person. Why?
Loving a person means accepting loving all their parts. All of them.
It is really helpful to know a part in order understand what it needs.
Doesn't mean affirming every action
Doesn't mean agreeing with every opinion
Doesn't mean endorsing every desire
Doesn't mean encouraging every impulse
See what you resonate with
What are parts?
Discrete, autonomous mental systems, each with own idiosyncratic range of emotion, style of expression, abilities, desires views of the world.
Modes of operating
Subpersonalities
Orchestra model
Focus is on integration.
Get forced into extreme roles -- attachment injuries and relational traumas
Three roles
Exiles --
most sensitive -- become injured or outraged. Threatens the system, external relationships
Exploited, rejected, abandoned in external relationships
Want care and love, rescue, redemption
shame. Need for redemption
Managers
Protective, strategic, controlling environment, keep things safe