Interior Integration for Catholics

178 Q&A on Ordered Self-Love, your Body, Parts Work and Catholicism

Jan 5, 2026
Dr. Gerry Crete, licensed marriage and family therapist who integrates spirituality and therapy, and Dr. Peter Martin, psychologist and IFS therapist focused on faith-integrated recovery, discuss ordered self-love, governing passions while loving passionate parts, saints and blendedness on a continuum, Theology of the Body from women’s perspectives, mercy as central, and how parts work informs chastity and embodied spiritual formation.
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INSIGHT

Ordered Self-Love Shapes How We Love Others

  • Ordered self-love grounds our capacity to love others and prevents projection of burdens onto others.
  • Gerry Crete highlights Aquinas: loving yourself properly forms the template for loving neighbors and reduces harmful projections.
ADVICE

Unblend To See With Spiritual Eyes

  • Use IFS unblending to open spiritual eyes so the same experience (e.g., a meal) becomes gratitude rather than disordered passion.
  • Dr. Peter Malinowski explains unblending lets the innermost self receive grace and enjoy created goods rightly.
ANECDOTE

Ignatius Let His Horse Decide In Anger

  • St. Ignatius' story shows intense blending: after debating, he felt so angry he wanted to kill the man and let his horse decide his path.
  • Dr. Peter Martin uses this to illustrate saints' raw blended struggles before choosing good.
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