#12132 How Can I Foster Peace at Mass While Co-Parenting After Divorce? - Dr. Ray Guarendi

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Navigating Mass with an estranged spouse can be difficult, especially when co-parenting. Dr. Ray offers guidance on maintaining peace and setting a good example for children, along with insights on family boundaries, self-compassion, and recognizing spiritual experiences in prayer.

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Questions Covered:

21:06 – Navigating Mass with an estranged spouse: How can he foster peace while co-parenting post-divorce?
30:20 – Is it ethical to challenge therapists who advise cutting off family members? A listener questions Dr. Ray’s stance.
36:04 – How can he manage negative self-talk and stop assuming the worst about others’ intentions?
41:21 – She struggles with being her own worst critic—what are some practical tools for self-compassion?
44:25 – She and her father are estranged from her younger sister—how can she start the path to reconciliation?
49:02 – Therapy vs. self-help: Can Dr. Ray expand on why seeing a therapist is different from following social media advice?
51:25 – Is a peaceful, tingling feeling during prayer a sign of the Holy Spirit? How can he discern spiritual experiences?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live.
0:31.6	I'm Psychelit, your host, as promised, Dr. Ray Garrendi here with us this hour.
0:35.8	So I will not be getting a word in edgewise.
0:39.8	Go ahead and call with your questions, 8883187-884.
0:44.3	How to Get Along with Almost Everybody, the new book from Dr. Ray Garrendi, and we're always
0:51.1	delighted to have him here with us.
0:52.9	It's always a great privilege that, you know,
0:54.7	author, radio hosts, TV hosts, clinical psychologists, father of 10, he's the real deal,
1:01.7	Dr. Ray Garrendi. Welcome, Dr. Ray.
1:04.6	You did leave out. Oh, no. Husband?
1:07.3	I was fractions champ in the third grade. Now, that was of my row, not my class. Mary Catherine,
1:15.1	Mary Margaret, Mary Grace, Mary Teresa were the champions. Oh, that was a Catholic school,
1:21.0	I'm guessing. That was not the shul. That was you were in a Catholic school with those names.
1:28.9	Well, congratulations. You were fractions champion of your row in the third grade. Yeah. Yeah, for a while, I was kind of like
1:35.6	top dog for maybe about a week. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's something to hang your hat on. That's
1:40.9	definitely something to hang your hat on. But you have since gone on to produce
1:47.3	a large body of written work. And I feel like this title, How to Get Along With, and they made the
1:53.7	word almost just tiny, but how to get along with almost everybody is right in the stream of
1:59.8	your Uber. I'm going to use a French word. I don't know if I'm is right in the stream of your uver.
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