How to understand those who cannot be understood The book Surrounded by Idiots, by Thomas Erikson, is an excellent aid to understanding - and making oneself understood - by the people we work with....
Personality
Improving one’s way of being with the help of the saints
St. Josemaría on personality and character The help of the saints is worth it. To achieve happiness, one must strive to be a good person. And one's own way of being can be modified. The most...
Overcoming Psychological Wounds
Introduction to psychological wounds Overcoming Psychological wounds, definition and causes. In two articles we will enter the world of psychological wounds, with the aim of getting to know them...
The inner treasure: intimacy
Intimacy as your most valuable wealth What is the most valuable hidden wealth of the human being? His intimacy: it is not only his interiority, but his most precious core. And lovers always exchange...
Celibacy in Today’s cultural context
Contemporary culture influences the perception of celibacy in many different ways. In this first article of a series, we will give a glimpse of some approaches. Although some elements contribute to...
Ivan Ilyich: what a life is worth living
Literature, this time with Ivan Ilyich, teaches us once again that life is worth living. The experience of the last epidemic that has struck the whole world and that still continues to plague us has...
The mystery of death, to live with joy
A phenomenological and psychological approach Mystery of death helps to live with joy. November is a good time to remember. Ever since death came into the world, it has been a cause for concern but...
Personality Test Online
Discover Your Personality Type to Improve Personality is the way of being and acting, that defines us in front of ourselves and others. You can discover it with this free personality test online....
To purify the memory
The path to happiness: forgive, forgive yourself and forget To 'purify the memory' is a felicitous expression of the theologian Jutta Burggraf and is a fundamental process in the quest for...
Be Who You Are
How to build a happy personality This book Be Who You Are: Developing Your Christian Personality, is about how to improve one’s personality, self-esteem and virtue. Several authors from different...
Accompanying psychologically wounded people
Helping people with psychological wounds As we said in the first part of the guide, we hope that these lines will help us to recognize and better understand our own way of being and that of others....
Mental Health and personality
Personality and Spiritual Life in 14 minutes videos 14 minute videos about personality, sexuality and spiritual life. It deals with gender ideology, hormone treatments and sex change interventions....
Internalist people according to Rotter
Characteristics of internalist people according to Rotter: Internalist people according to Rotter are dominated by the conviction that they are the ones who control their own actions, their entire...
Externalists according to Rotter
Characteristics of externalist people Externalists according to Rotter think that the "control" or causes of what happens depend fundamentally on factors external to them, such as fate and good or...
New year, new character
Healthy interest in self-knowledge and self-improvement Temperament test published in 2 new languages With the translations into Portuguese and German, we now have 7 languages. In less than a...
Tenet explained: psychologically and spiritually
Tenet and our longing for God Christopher Nolan's film Tenet, analyzed in its psycho-spiritual dimension, shows a human aspiration. We will not tell the details of the story, which each one has to...
Video: How to forgive your parents
(Watch this video on YouTube) The Father effect. Forgiving your own Father Parents are not born knowing how to help their children grow. Many psychological wounds can be due to difficulties in the...
Educating in Virtue: the Interior Gymnasium
Building a good and happy personal life By Iván López Casanova There is a certain idea gaining currency that, in one’s personal life and especially in the education of children, the...
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Avoidant Trait Characteristics Avoidant Disorder belongs to Cluster C: introversion and fear are prominent. Hypersensitivity to rejection Fear of novelty, both in actions and in...
Infographic: Pyramid of the Christian Maturity
How to mature and become good people We present Christian maturity in a psychological-spiritual perspective, as a pyramid of three blocks or three binomials, which are built, mysteriously, in a...
Identity as the basis for human and spiritual growth
Identity for spiritual accompaniment Accompanying someone in their spiritual growth and self-awareness is exciting and difficult. In this article, we will cover some spiritual and psychological...
Gender Ideology Harms Children
The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite...
Same Sex Attraction
What can lead to being attracted to the same sex? What is a desire? How do desires develop in people? We offer some answers in this video with English subtitles.
Emotions in human and spiritual formation
Spiritual accompaniment of the heart In the first half of this article we set out the ABC’s of spiritual guidance, and focused on the identity that sustains a person. Let’s now look at that inner...
A Good Death
Human Dignity, Palliative Care and Euthanasia A good death is the fruit of a good life. I was like you... Pray for me. This phrase, which I read in a graveyard on the island of Chiloé, can be...
Faith, Spiritual and Mental Health Care
Faith Lived with Coherence Improves Health Faith is not medicine, but there are many reasons why it is useful for health: more precisely, for the unity of the different dimensions of the...
Video: Build a life compass
Coaching Young People to Use Their Freedom Well Conference (speaker Dr. Karen Bohlin, 48 min) In our beautiful, diverse, and tumultuous world, there is remarkable consensus...
Rotter test: know your character and responsibility
TAKE THE TEST (5 MINUTES) Rotter's scale and responsability Do you master your life and surf any wave? or do you always seem to sink because of bad luck? Rotter test: know your character and...
Cultivating Humanity
Dynamic Maturity and Personal Growth The name Cultivating humanity groups five challenges that arise in family life and society, divided into sub-themes. Exploring each of them makes it easier to...
Temperament, Character and the Work of Formation
Our temperament shapes the way we look at reality The human person is a mystery. Little by little, anthropology and psychology are revealing aspects that were previously undeveloped. Temperament and...