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Episode 282: You're (Probably) Not a Serial Killer—But You May Share Some of Their Antisocial Traits
You're probably not a serial killer. But the patterns that shape one run through all of us, at lower volume. In this episode, Dr. Greg traces antisocial patterns back to their source in everyday life…
Episode 281: Control or Be Controlled: The Devastating Wounds Behind Antisocial Behavioral Patterns
Not every rule-breaker is choosing rebellion. Most are choosing safety — and they've been doing it since childhood. In this first episode of a new series, Dr. Greg takes apart what "antisocial"…
Episode 280: Being Human in the Age of AI: Exploring What Machines Can't Replace with a World-Class Artist
AI was supposed to replace what humans make. Instead, it's revealing what only humans can. In this episode, Dr. Greg sits down with Mike Marshall, Director of Design at the CatholicPsych Institute,…
Episode 279: Stop Diagnosing Your Kids: Rethinking "Behavior Problems" Through Development and Love
The meltdown. The defiance. The constant "look at me." It's easy to wonder if something is wrong. But most of the time, these aren't signs of a disorder — they're signs of development still in…
Episode 278: Better than 20 Billion Dollars: A Litany For Mental Health
$20 billion in research. Suicide rates 32% higher than the year 2000. Something is deeply wrong — and it isn't a lack of effort. In this episode, Dr. Greg makes the case that the mental health crisis…
Episode 277: Boring Is Healing: Embracing Hiddenness and Alleviating Histrionic Patterns
Healing isn't about changing your personality. It's about being freed from the compulsions that drive it. In this final episode of the histrionic series, Dr. Greg explores what the path from…
Episode 276: Back to Eden: Overcoming the Fear of Being Alone Through Divine Love
Being seen is not the same as being known. The life of the party can be the most isolated person in the room — filling every silence, commanding every gaze, and going home to an emptiness no audience…
Episode 275: Hiding the Real You: The Histrionic Battle for Intimacy
What if the person who lights up every room is actually living in fear and darkness? The humor, the charisma, the ease with which they hold attention - beneath the surface, there's often a fragile…
Episode 274: To Be Loved Is to Perform: Inside the Histrionic Compulsion for Attention and Validation
"Unless someone notices you, you don't matter." For some people, that's not a passing fear — it's the operating system. In this episode, Dr. Greg opens a new series on histrionic personality…
Episode 273: Why Borderline Patterns Are So Hard to Heal (But Not Impossible)
Borderline patterns are notoriously hard to treat — but the problem isn't a lack of research. It's that the secular framework approaches healing from a disintegrated view of the person. In this final…
Episode 272: You Are Not Your Feelings: From Borderline Chaos to Inner Coherence
Breathing exercises help. But they have a ceiling. For someone whose interior world is constant emotional chaos, no amount of skill-building will reach the level where real healing happens. In this…
Episode 271: Forgive, Explode, Repeat: Humanizing Borderline Personality with St. John Paul II
Forgive. Explode. Repeat. That's the cycle — and no matter how much effort goes into the repair, it keeps starting over. In this episode, Dr. Greg explores why genuine healing can't happen inside the…
Episode 270: I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: The Chaos of the Disorganized Attachment
"I love you… now go away." That's the kind of chaos disorganized attachment creates. It's not drama or manipulation. It's deep inner turmoil that makes love feel dangerous and safety hard to trust.…
Episode 269: BORDERLINE: The Push-Pull Between a Fear of Abandonment and Annihilation
Borderline personality patterns are often misunderstood and mislabeled—but beneath the surface is a painful struggle shaped by identity instability, emotional overwhelm, and the exhausting push–pull…
Episode 268: What Free Love Ought to Mean: Healing Codependent Wounds and Learning to Love Freely
Even if you're Christian — even if your spouse is a genuinely good person — you can still feel deeply unfulfilled. In this episode, Dr. Greg explores how asking another person to carry your identity,…
Episode 267: Not All Satisfaction Is Good: Understanding Codependency As Relationship Cancer
What if you're mistaking something emotionally dangerous for love? In this episode, Dr. Greg tackles a painful but common pattern: relationships that look close, committed, and appear to be…
Episode 266: You're Giving Too Much! Uncovering How Anxiety Disguises Itself as Holiness
What if the reason you feel anxious, resentful, or exhausted from "doing the right thing" isn't a lack of generosity—but anxiety hiding behind virtue? This episode explores the crucial difference…
Episode 265: Jerry Maguire, Gollum, and the Fear of Not Existing: A Deep Dive into the Dependent Defense Pattern
Have you ever felt safer letting someone else decide—not because you didn't care, but because choosing for yourself felt overwhelming or even dangerous? Dr. Greg explores the dependent defense…
Episode 264: IFS, JPII and Narcissism: Unburdening the Subconscious on the Way to Healing
Dr. Greg wraps up the series on narcissism by going beneath behavior and willpower, drawing on JP2 and psychology to show how real healing happens at the subconscious level. Learn how narcissistic…
Episode 263: Holiness and Narcissism: Undoing the Knots with Awareness, Self-Determination, Empathy and Our Lady
"Die to yourself." "Offer it up." What happens when these phrases get tangled with woundedness? In this episode, we explore spiritual narcissism—and the path back to freedom through awareness,…
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