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Faith and Reason


Slowing Your Breath Changes Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Anxiety
If you've ever been told to "breathe" during a difficult moment and found it insulting, this is meant to explain why the advice is legitimate, even if the delivery usually isn't helpful.

Dr. Christine M. Williams
Sep 66 min read


Quieting the Ruminating Mind: What Neuroscience Tells Us
The mind's tendency to ruminate isn't a personal failing, it's a well-documented pattern with an identifiable neural signature, and it responds to specific, learnable practices.

Dr. Christine M. Williams
Aug 235 min read


A Psychologist's Case for Parish Renewal
You cannot program your way to a community where people feel genuinely safe, known, and accompanied in their suffering.

Dr. Christine M. Williams
Jul 57 min read


From Stepping Back to Stepping In
In the past few posts, we’ve been exploring the ACT skill of cognitive defusion , or the ability to notice thoughts without getting...

Dr. Christine M. Williams
Aug 24, 20253 min read


In Our Minds
"Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts". Psalm 139: 23 Being in the here-and-now, connected to our true...

Dr. Christine M. Williams
Aug 10, 20255 min read


Interior Movements
Faith for all defects supplying - where the feeble senses fail. - Pange Lingua Something I'll be talking a lot about is "internal...

Dr. Christine M. Williams
Jul 17, 20254 min read


Psychology and Spirituality in Harmony
"Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason." CCC §159 There is much which...

Dr. Christine M. Williams
Jul 11, 20254 min read
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