06/28/2024
Happy Feast Day of St. Irenaeus.
I have some exciting news in honor of his feast day!!!!
But first let me tell you about St. Irenaeus because it connects with the exciting news.
St. Irenaeus was an early Church Father and defended the Church against Gnosticism which essentially posited that life is about releasing the soul from the body because our bodies are corrupt.
But, “For Irenaeus, redemption is decidedly not tantamount to the escape of the soul from the body; rather, it is the salvation and perfection of the body.” Bishop
Robert Barron.
Unfortunately Gnosticism didn’t end in the early church but has remained a pervasive ethos and perhaps an unconscious drive in our modern world.
As a Catholic therapist, my hope is to rely on early church Fathers like St. Irenaeus and other spiritual leaders to help people live more integrated and reclaim their inner self, the most authentic self, which includes a reclamation of one’s body.
Which is why starting in August I will be releasing a new coaching program called “Fully Alive” to help people heal, integrate, and become more embodied.
Our bodies and spirits don’t have to be at war with one another. Nor the different inner parts of ourselves.
We don’t have to solely rely on our spirituality or our intellect to survive.
When we can see our whole body as good and essential to our flourishing, human development and sense of self, we become more alive in the process.
So stay updated by subscribing to my newsletter on my website (linked in bio) for the release and consider partaking in this 12-week healing process that will help you become a living woman or man, who reflects Christ - the God man who comes to meet us in body. (In physical body. In the body of the Church. In physical sacraments. In the physical creation of the world.
& in our own bodies- our nervous system, our fight/flight response, our emotions, our 5 senses, imagination, gut/ intuition, etc.)
So that the words of Jesus may be etched in every fiber of our being - body and soul:
“I have come so that you may have life and have it to the fullest” (John 10:10).
St. Irenaeus, pray for us.