295. Can you Change Your Desires?

About this episode

The episode explores the role of desire in the spiritual life and challenges the notion that desire is inherently selfish or opposed to God's will.

Can you actually change your desires? In this episode of the Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt and Erin continue their discernment series by exploring the role of desire in the spiritual life. Many Catholics feel suspicious of desire, as if wanting something automatically means it is selfish, disordered, or opposed to God’s will. But desire itself is not the enemy. Unexplored desire is often what keeps us stuck. In this episode, we discuss: * What desire actually is * Why desire is morally ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Ingold, Erin Ingold

Topics covered

• desire
• spiritual life
• Catholicism
• self-improvement
• discernment

Keywords

• desire
• spirituality
• Catholic coaching
• self-discovery
• morality

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