44. Q&A About The Academy

In this episode we go through all the questions our listeners have asked us about the Metanoia Catholic Academy, including:What does it have?How much time does it take?How much does it cost?How is this goi...

43. The Perfection Problem

We get a lot of questions about how to stick with something you started, like a prayer commitment or a new habit to make your life better. We don’t have a trick, but we do have a way that can help.That way involves changing the ...

42. Discerning with Desire

 Catholics tend to believe that desires are bad. You might think your desires are opposed to what God wants, so you have to ignore them or put them aside.But your desires are actually a big part of the equation if your life is going...

41. Emotional Adulting

Today’s trigger culture keeps you at the whim of your emotions. But the truth is, you have more control over your emotions than you think.The key is emotional adulthood. In this episode, we’ll tell you how emotional adulthood can change ...

40. The One Thing Holding You Back

What’s the biggest obstacle to your personal growth? That’s what we recently asked our listeners. The answer we got was — self-discipline. In other words, “I know what I should do, but I just don’t do it.”If we desire to live a disciplin...

39. Launching The Academy!

 We’re about to launch something totally unique in the Catholic world! Imagine if every Catholic were truly happy, holy, and free because they were living the specific plan God has for them in this life.With that vision in mind, we ...

38. People Pleasers Anonymous

37. How to Pick a Fight

There is something in us as humans that seeks a battle to fight. We each have a specific role to play in the Church militant, and a specific job in bringing about God's glory. but when we don't know our unique purpose, when we don't know the ba...

36. Be Happy With Your Boundaries

Emotional boundaries let you know where your responsibility begins and ends for how someone else feels. When we have poor emotional boundaries, it can lead to inauthenticity in our relationships, unnecessary stress, and a barrier to true friend...

35. What Happens on Day 41?

We make our Lenten offerings for 40 days (or 90 days, for those Exodus 90 men), but how have we been changed in the process?What about day 41 (or 91)? Do we still have an attachment to whatever we gave up, or have we reached a place of g...

34. Can Self Development Be Catholic?

Today we tackle a question we hear a lot of people asking: Can self-development be Catholic? It’s a really good question, so we want to give you some perspective based on what we’ve seen in our own experience.If you wonder whether self-d...

33. Making Your Coaching Catholic

We've graduated our first class of Catholic Coaches from the Purgative Way Coaching Course! Today we host Maria Spears and MK Whathen to share their experience and what the course has done for them. If you’re a Catholic coach, counselor, consul...

32. Who is Responsible for What?

If you are a drama queen, you won't like this podcast.Do you ever think that you are responsible for another person's feelings? We certainly are responsible for treating people kindly and upholding their dignity, but can we ultimately be...

31. When Love Is Not Love

Have you ever tried to change someone you love? How did it go? Let me guess, probably not well.What if you want to change someone for the better? Isn’t that a good thing? The truth is, we’re often still being selfishly motivated when we’...

30. Jason Evert Shares How to Build a Chastity Mindset

There are SO many false beliefs about chastity and many of them can create an aversion to the word itself. If you find the word chastity triggering thoughts of body-shaming, puritanism, or obstacles to real love, then you will find this episode...

29. Possibility Mom, Lisa Canning

The imagination is a powerful tool, but most adults nowadays use it for creating worry rather than creating God's Kingdom Come.In this episode, we sit down with Lisa Canning, The Possibility Mom, to discuss how adults might reform the wa...

28. Tips for Approaching Exercise 3 and Setting Goals

 We get a lot of questions on how to set better goals and get the most out of Exercise 3 in our Metanoia Daily Seven Journal.  In this episode, we share the importance of being honest with our desires, regardless of how h...

27. Erin Coaches Matt on Exodus 90 Restlessness

You wanted more coaching episodes, you got it!Matt is almost three weeks into his Exodus 90 challenge (fasting, cold showers, no TV, and more), and has found himself restless having been stripped of his familiar buffering activities....

26. When Beliefs Cease Serving their Purpose

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that the purpose of belief is to ascent our thoughts to God. But too often, we choose beliefs that do the very opposite.In this episode, we help you self-diagnose your toxic beliefs and choose an...

25. The Power of Belief that Becomes Faith

Consider how Jesus calls us to have Faith. Well, what exactly does that mean on a practical level? Anyone who has accomplished anything of merit has had to step out in Faith, meaning that they choose to believe something that they have not yet ...

24. Erin Coaches Matt to Find his Compelling Why for Exodus 90

Let's face it, transformation is uncomfortable, and when you don't have a compelling reason behind the discomfort, it's easy to fall back into old ways. In this episode, as Matt looks at a future of 90-days with cold showers, no-alcohol (gasp!)...

23. Breaking Bad Habits and How to be Successful

White-knuckling your way to behavior change never leads to lasting transformation.Furthermore, it's neither Biblically nor psychologically sound. For the Catholics that think the only way to change is to "beat themselves up to better," y...

22. Why Buffering is a Barrier to Our Relationship With Jesus

Whether it's with food, working out, busyness, alcohol, sleep, or any number of behaviors, most of us have some go-to buffering actions when we are avoiding what we'd call an unpleasant emotion. The trouble with buffering is that we keep...

21. The Catholic Process of Processing Emotions

Back by popular demand, we're diving deeper into emotions and building on episode 20. In this episode, we get into the "How" of processing emotions. This can seem daunting, but take courage! There is freedom in learning this oft-neglecte...

20. Emotions 101: What most Catholics Don't Know

We can carry a lot of negative thoughts about our emotions. They're too much, not enough, good, bad, painful, etc.. But what if we just felt them? While the stonefaced #stoic life may seem more appealing than the out-of-control #triggere...