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Christopher West has recently embraced IFS and parts work because of Dr. Gerry Crete’s book, Litanies of the Heart. Dr. West shares the impact of IFS in his life, seeing it as a “missing piece,” a key to internalizing and living out the powerful message of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. In this episode, Dr. West, Dr. Gerry, and Dr. Peter invite you into their rollicking, wide ranging, and deep conversation about “marrying” TOB and IFS -- and how the TOB/IFS union brings guidance and light in redeeming eros, healing from trauma, growing in interior integration, living chastely, and loving our parts that experience lustful desires and impulses.

Join Dr. Gerry, Dr. Peter Martin, and Dr. Peter Malinoski live on Zoom on December 4 at 8:00 PM Eastern for a Q&A about episodes 171 to 177 of the IIC podcast on IFS, parts work and Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican II, the Catechism and the Theology of the Body. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/g6FKZyS6RSazvgZzwHec0w

Dr. West’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheologyoftheBodyInstitute
His Theology of the Body Institute is here: https://tobinstitute.org
His book Theology of the Body Explained: https://ascensionpress.com/products/theology-of-the-body-explained?srsltid=AfmBOoqSs2m7XgMuG7_D2-Fi4hcebYB8YkWnpJjf_ckmuZgUDGmIzeoE
His book Eating the Sunrise: https://tobinstitute.kartra.com/page/Sunrise

Dr. Gerry Crete’s Book “Litanies of the Heart”: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/litanies-of-the-heart/?srsltid=AfmBOoo_a_TrY1EJWzwtwws6DHlkeAyPH3B8oD2R88C59nWYZ92mqXU2

Check out our Zoom workshops and our August IFS and human formation retreat for Catholic formators - counselors, coaches, spiritual directors, priests, anyone who accompanies other in their personal formation -- here: https://soulsandhearts.com/fff

Check out our Scripture for Your Inner Outcasts podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@ScriptureForYourInnerOutcasts

Key Moments

10:56 “The Three Choices of Eros” – a painting by Beth West representing the indulgence in, suppression from, and redemption of eros – part by part
13:05 “Eros” vs. “porneia.”
14:10 The redemption of eros
20:44 The crumpled painting analogy
24:50 How parts can hold heretical God images, including Manicheanism.
26:09 A person's sexual function functioning as the most sensitive barometer of interior integration
27:15 IFS provides the “how” for healing and flourishing within a TOB framework
27:55 Dr. West shares his appreciation for Dr. Gerry’s book Litanies of the Heart -- parts connect to the three choices of erotic desires
33:41 On loving the Lord not just your intellect and will, but with our whole hearts
39:00 Discussion of how we (with our bodies and with eros) are called to spousal union with God, bride in union with the Lord
43:55 Parts need to be evangelized in love – parts work is a way to do that.
44:55 The cost of receiving real love. Parts confuse pain/hurt with harm
48:25 Tenderness as a bridge between the inner lives of spouses instead of “Hector, the marital debt collector” who brutalizes both his wife’s heart and his own.
54:51 Dr. West admits he has an inner Pharisee, tax collector, prostitute, prodigal son, older brother, good Samaritan, wounded man on the road, all these characters from the Gospel. All these parts need to be loved.
56:08 CCC 2340 “Indeed, it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity." Chastity is the virtue of integration, a union.
57:43 The broader definition of “virginal” as the integrity of the person. Unchaste behavior fractures the person. Chaste love re-integrates one’s own humanity. Redemption is reintegration.
1:00:15 The four original unities that were fractured by sin.