The Catholic Coaching Podcast 21. The Catholic Process of Processing Emotions
Dec 10, 2020
They explain why emotions matter and contrast allowing feelings with resisting them. They teach practical steps: naming feelings, locating them in the body, and finding the thought behind them. Science and faith meet as neuroscience, theology, and baptismal imagination are woven together. They explore discerning action impulses and offering emotions to Christ for meaning and healing.
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Emotions Are Neutral Until Reason Judges Them
- Emotions are neither morally good nor bad until reason and will evaluate them.
- The Catechism (1762–1767) frames passions as movements that incline us to act and become morally qualified only after engagement with reason.
Resisting Emotions Wore Me Out More Than Feeling Them
- Erin tested with a coach whether feeling emotions is more exhausting than resisting them and learned resisting is far more draining.
- This personal example motivated both hosts to prioritize learning emotional processing to stop wasting energy.
Name Emotions As Feelings Not Identities
- Name the emotion with distance by saying I am feeling X instead of I am X to avoid identity fusion.
- This phrasing gives you control and prevents the emotion from defining your identity in the moment.
