This Whole Life
How does our mental health relate to our faith? How can we become whole while living in a broken world? Every day, we all strive to encounter God amidst the challenges of balancing faith and family, work and leisure, our sense of self and complicated relationships. Pat & Kenna Millea bring joy, hope, and wisdom to those who believe there *is* a connection between holiness and happiness. Kenna is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist; Pat served for 15 years as a youth minister; together they have 7 children and a perfectly imperfect marriage. From their education and experience, they share tools, resources, interviews, and stories that point the way to sanity and sanctity. (Music: "You're Not Alone" by Marie Miller. Used with permission.)
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 84
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Ep42 Your Body is a Gift: Body Image & Eating Disorders w/ Megan Lawrence, LAMFT
"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?"
~ 1 Corinthians 6:19
"Why isn't my body different?"
"Why did God give m…
Ep41 Shame vs. Guilt
"...and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us."
~ Romans 5:5
So much of human life is marked by shame and …
Ep40 Crushing Criticism
"My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted."
~ Galatians…
Ep39 OCD & Scrupulosity w/ Dr. Katherine Posch
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
~ 2 Corinthians 3:17
How often do we hear that someone is "obsessed" with a new show or that they keep a clean home …
Ep38 Family Meetings: A Game Changer
"And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
~ Colossians 3:17
Marriage and family life is a beautiful, romantic,…
Ep37 Forgiveness: Living In Freedom
"Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive."
~ Colossians 3:13
In the prayer that Jesus gave …
Ep36 Radical Acceptance
"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective."
~ 1 Corinthians 15:10
As humans living in a fallen world, we often feel the space between our hopes and reality, …
Ep35 Unified: Overcoming Pornography Together
"It is necessary that the heroic becomes daily and that the daily becomes heroic."
~ Saint Zélie Martin
In this fallen world, there are particular evils that require the grace of God and the support of…
Ep34 Perspectives on Pornography: His & Hers
"Create in me a clean heart, O God..."
~ Psalm 51:12
How can something that affects all of us be something that we almost never talk about honestly and purposefully? Pornography has infiltrated individ…
Ep33 I'm Not In Control: Superstition
"To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition."
~ Catechism of t…
Ep32 In The World, not of the World: the Sacred & the Secular
"I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one. ... As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world."
~ John 17:15, 18
Let's face it: the fallen…
Ep31 Let Them Struggle: Enabling & Overfunctioning
"We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God."
~ …
Ep30 Conquering Contempt
"All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Chris…
Ep29 The Parts of Me in Harmony: Internal Family Systems with Louisa Hall
"As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ."
~ 1 Corinthians 12:12
You were made by our loving God to be an amazing human perso…
Ep28 Choosing Greatness Over Comfort with Isaac Schmidt
"The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."
~ Pope Benedict XVI
We live in a world that often seems to be designed for our human comfort. We now have…
Ep27 10 Tips for Parenting Toddlers (and other kids of any age)
“Soon we’ll have the intimate happiness of the family, and it’s this beauty that brings us closer to God.”
~ St. Louis Martin
The Terrible Twos. Three-nagers. A-Four-itarian. It's time to dive into the…
Ep26 What Do I Do With My Anger? w/ Fr. Nathan LaLiberte
"Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger, and do not leave room for the devil."
~ Ephesians 4:26-27
ANGER. It's a word that brings up so many feelings and reactions for each of us…
Ep25 Moving in the Right Direction, Together w/ Andy Norton
“Man cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself.”
~ St. John Paul II
It sounds so simple: do good things that make me healthy, happy, & holy and avoid the things that stop me fr…
Ep24 Men & Mental Health: Do I Have What It Takes?
"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."
~ G.K. Chesterton
The relationship between men and mental health is a complicat…
Ep23 Staying Grounded in the Chaos
"I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing."
~ John 15:5
In the midst of a fallen, chaotic, and frenetic world,…