Being Human

Have you ever felt safer letting someone else decide—not because you didn't care, but because choosing for yourself felt overwhelming or even dangerous? Dr. Greg explores the dependent defense pattern and why giving up agency can feel like survival—until healing restores the freedom to exist, choose, and love.
Key Topics:
Why dependency isn't just fear of being alone—but fear of not existing alone
How proximity can start to feel like survival
Why some people lose touch with what they want, like, or dream about
How dependency can quietly shape marriages, families, and faith
And how healing doesn't erase need—it restores freedom

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Being Human episodes on narcissistic personality patterns: Ep. #261: Narcissism and the Terror of Being Ordinary
Ep. #262: Spiritual Narcissism: Exposing the Sneaky Way We Use Religion as a Pattern of Protection
Ep. #263: Holiness and Narcissism
Ep. #264: IFS, JP2 and Narcissism

Is Leadership of the Family a Man's Job? (Being Human, Ep. #201)
Correcting Aquinas: JP2's Truth Bomb on Gender and Human Dignity (Being Human, Ep. #197)
Being Human episodes on Parts Work:  Ep. #34: A New Theory! w/a Catholic Lens
Ep. #35: Why Do I Feel Like I Have Conflicting Thoughts? w/ Dr. Peter Malinoski
Ep. #49: Internal Family Systems & External Family Tensions 

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Dr. Greg wraps up the series on narcissism by going beneath behavior and willpower, drawing on JP2 and psychology to show how real healing happens at the subconscious level. Learn how narcissistic patterns can be unburdened and integrated with compassion—not erased or fought—so healing can actually take root.
Key Topics:
Why a narcissistic part is not a monster, but a protector
How deep wounds get buried beneath conscious awareness and still drive behavior
Why healing isn't about willpower or "trying harder"
How narcissistic patterns can be unburdened and integrated, rather than erased

Learn More:
Being Human episodes on Narcissism: Ep. #263: Holiness and Narcissism: Undoing the Knots with Awareness, Self-Determination, Empathy and Our Lady
Ep. #262: Spiritual Narcissism: Exposing the Sneaky Way We Use Religion as a Pattern of Protection
Ep. #261: Narcissism and the Terror of Being Ordinary

Related blog articles: The Problem with the Bishop Scandals
Outlining Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The Two Types of Narcissism

Being Human episodes on Parts Work:  Ep. #34: A New Theory! w/a Catholic Lens
Ep. #35: Why Do I Feel Like I Have Conflicting Thoughts? w/ Dr. Peter Malinoski
Ep. #47: How to Turn Your Inner Worst Enemies into Your Inner Best Friends

Person and Act by Karol Wojtyla (Pope Saint John Paul II)
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"Die to yourself." "Offer it up." What happens when these phrases get tangled with woundedness? In this episode, we explore spiritual narcissism—and the path back to freedom through awareness, empathy, self-determination, and Our Lady.
 
Key Topics:
Why "good advice" can sometimes feel silencing rather than supportive
How being told to "pray more" can replace real listening
The hidden ways love can feel conditional in spiritual spaces
How spiritual environments can quietly erode trust in your own intuition

Learn More:
Related blog articles: The Problem with the Bishop Scandals
Outlining Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The Two Types of Narcissism

Being Human episodes on Narcissism: Ep. #262: Spiritual Narcissism: Exposing the Sneaky Way We Use Religion as a Pattern of Protection
Ep. #261: Narcissism and the Terror of Being Ordinary

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When faith is used to silence, control, or end conversations, something has gone wrong. In this episode, Dr. Greg exposes spiritual narcissism—the hidden way woundedness disguises itself as holiness and quietly breaks relationships from the inside out.
 
Key Topics:
Why spiritual maturity does not automatically include emotional maturity
How faith can unconsciously be used to shut down dialogue
Why boundaries can be an authentic act of mercy
How real healing requires integration, not just more prayer or effort
How spiritual language can become a shield against vulnerability rather than a path to communion
Why grace perfects nature but does not bypass psychological woundedness
Why marriage is not a chain of command but a mutual gift of self
How authority language can become a warning sign instead of a virtue
Why feeling confused, guilty, or silenced in a "faithful" relationship signals deeper misalignment

Learn More:
Related blog articles: The Problem with the Bishop Scandals
Outlining Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The Two Types of Narcissism

Being Human episodes on Narcissism: Ep. #261: Narcissism and the Terror of Being Ordinary
Ep. #68: "I'm Not Narcissistic, You're Narcissistic!"
Ep. #67: An Antidote to Narcissism
Ep. #21: A Look at Narcissist Personality Disorder

Being Human Ep. #201: Is Leadership of the Family a Man's Job?
Being Human episodes on Parts Work:  Ep. #49: Internal Family Systems & External Family Tensions 
Ep. #47: How to Turn Your Inner Worst Enemies into Your Inner Best Friends

Pastores Dabo Vobis (St. John Paul II) – On human formation as the foundation of spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral growth
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Everyone's talking about narcissism — but most of the conversation is missing what's really going on underneath. In this episode, Dr. Greg uncovers the blind spot driving narcissistic patterns, and why willpower never creates the change that only love can.
 
Key Topics:
Why willpower alone never leads to real change 
How blind spots protect us from unbearable shame 
What "the terror of being ordinary" actually means 
Why patience and sacrifice don't heal narcissism 
And what does create the conditions for change

Learn More:
Being Human episodes on Narcissism: Ep. #21: A Look at Narcissist Personality Disorder
Ep. #67: An Antidote to Narcissism
Ep. #68: "I'm Not Narcissistic, You're Narcissistic!"

Being Human episodes on Parts Work:  Ep. #34: A New Theory! w/a Catholic Lens
Ep. #35: Why Do I Feel Like I Have Conflicting Thoughts? w/ Dr. Peter Malinoski
Ep. #36: A Guided Exercise w/ Dr. Peter Malinoski
Ep. #47: How to Turn Your Inner Worst Enemies into Your Inner Best Friends
Ep. #49: Internal Family Systems & External Family Tensions 

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