Sometimes, I have to take my therapist’s words with a grain of salt or filter them through a Catholic lens. More often, I discover that my lifelong spiritual failings are actually emotional wounds. And as they heal, it becomes easier to follow Christ.
Read the rest of my essay for America magazine.
Simcha, thank you for writing this. Mindfulness as a mainstay of contemporary therapy is largely the life’s work of a Catholic therapist and researcher, Marsha Linehan. I know this because her therapies saved my daughter’s life. A brief article on Dr. Linehan’s life and spirituality: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/health/23lives.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Congratulations!!!
Simcha,
This is so beautiful. And inspiring. All I know is that when I stumbled upon you on the internet, I knew that you were someone very rare. You may look back on those days as your “pre-therapy” days, but your words were pure therapy –to your readers! I think there is something really deep about this. We can’t find healing within ourselves, we must become a link in a chain.