Catholic · Emmaus course
Your Emotions Are Not the Enemy: A Catholic Christian Vision of Living Out Emotions
The capacity to feel is good, given by God, and your emotions can grow toward virtue. The work isn’t to stop feeling. It’s to learn how to live it out.
NBCC CE · 0.75 clock hours
With Lisa Klewicki, MAT, Ph.D. and Craig Steven Titus, S.T.D., Ph.D.
- Length
- 45 min
- Lessons
- 1
- Level
- Beginner
- Version
- Catholic
- Price
- Free
Something is wrong with me for feeling this way.
About this course
Most of us were taught, somewhere along the way, that our feelings are the problem. That holiness means rising above them, that maturity means controlling them, that a good day is one without anger or fear or sorrow. This course says something different, and it has the Catholic tradition behind it: the capacity to feel is good, given by God, and your emotions can actually grow.
Drawing on a panel conversation with Divine Mercy University faculty (Lisa Klewicki, William Nordling, and Craig Steven Titus) and on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person, the lesson shows how emotions put us in contact with reality, shape how we think and choose and relate, and can be formed over time toward virtue. You will come away with a clearer answer to the question many of your clients, and you yourself, quietly carry: Is something wrong with me for feeling this way?
The answer is no. The real work is learning how to live it out.
Who this course is for
Counselors
Counselors want CE credit and clinical relevance.
For the counselor who wants more than symptom management.
Parish adults
Parish adults want personal peace.
For anyone who has felt guilty for feeling.
From the course syllabus
Most of us were taught, somewhere along the way, that our feelings are the problem. That holiness means rising above them, that maturity means controlling them, that a good day is one without anger or fear or sorrow. This course says something different, and it has the Catholic tradition behind it: the capacity to feel is good, given by God, and your emotions can actually grow.
Drawing on a panel conversation with Divine Mercy University faculty (Lisa Klewicki, William Nordling, and Craig Steven Titus) and on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person, the lesson shows how emotions put us in contact with reality, shape how we think and choose and relate, and can be formed over time toward virtue. You will come away with a clearer answer to the question many of your clients, and you yourself, quietly carry: Is something wrong with me for feeling this way?
The answer is no. The real work is learning how to live it out.
Curriculum
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Module 1
Your Emotions Are Not the Enemy A Catholic Christian Vision of Living Out Emotions
- 1.Living Out Emotions: The Feeling Person in the Catholic Christian Vision
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