Healing the Imagination & Fearing The Spiritual Life | Ep. 6

WE'RE SO BACK (feat. motivation, self-compassion, abandonment wounds, and prayer) | S2 EP1

After a long and unexpected hiatus, we have returned with season 2! First, Nicole & Trinity explain why we took such a long break, our new philosophy and approach to the podcast, and then we discuss what God has been teaching us all these months. We touch on discouragement and motivation, self-compassion, struggling with abandonment wounds, how to approach our wounded parts, and prayer. Thanks for relishing reality with us!

Nicole & Trinity VS. Eternal Damnation | Ep. 8

In this episode, we take on the following questions (while keeping in mind those who struggle with scrupulosity): * How are we supposed to attach to God given the existence of Hell? * Does the possibility of Hell mean we can't trust God's heart for us? * How can we reconcile the need to trust Him with the possibility of eternal damnation?

An Advent Chat with Nicole & Trinity | Ep. 7

We're back after taking a week off for Thanksgiving! Follow us on Instagram @realitypartypodcast for updates and news, like when we're taking a week off. In this episode, we talk about our how we're doing this Advent and what's on our hearts. For the first time, we just let pressed record and had a normal conversation, updating each other in real time. We thought we'd try something new, so let us know if you like this format! We are praying for you all as you continue on the Advent journey. God bless you.

Healing the Imagination & Fearing The Spiritual Life | Ep. 6

In this episode, Nicole tackles the role of the imagination in the spiritual life, and how we need healthy imaginations in order to have a proper desire for God and the spiritual life. She also offers a few ideas regarding how to start healing the imagination, especially as someone who has struggled with a wounded imagination herself.

What Are Emotions, & What Do I Do with Them? | Ep. 5

In this episode, Nicole offers a basic background on the philosophy of the human person as laid out by Aristotle and Aquinas, but with a specific focus on the emotions, where they come from, and what their role would have been in our state of "original integrity," which Fr. Brian Mullady uses to describe how Adam and Eve functioned (and therefore, how we are designed to function). Since we live post-Adam and Eve, what are we supposed to do with our emotions? Nicole offers one way to start approaching our emotions in this fallen world, using the work of Dr. Diana Fosha on core emotions. Original Integrity Diagram (as mentioned in the podcast) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qEL4GYPiaBRXHGH8aZCBZXlehOUCbKsEhSrby07PFyM/edit?usp=sharing]