Taylor and Sarah continue their discussion of envy delving deep into psychoanalytic theory to explore how our earliest relationships, and our dependency on them, create the conditions for envy later on in life. This episode includes itches being scratched, existential infants, and peacocking.

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Sarah and Taylor begin their discussion of envy by exploring how the early Christian tradition understood this vice and distinguished it from jealousy and covetousness. This episode includes a series of bad jokes, Sarah’s new BMW, and delight in knocking another person down a peg.

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Taylor and Sarah conclude their discussion of vainglory by identifying the narcissistic needs we all have and sharing practices to help cultivate the counter virtue of humility. This episode includes pies and cheesecakes, British punk bands, and a reference to a misunderstood green witch.

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Sarah and Taylor begin their exploration of the complexities of the vice of vainglory—a vice most tempting for the holiest among us—and its connection to the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism. This episode includes AMRAPs, EMOMs, and WODs as well as hotdog loving interviewees and Augustinian locker room talk.

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Taylor and Sarah conclude their discussion of acedia with an exploration of the psychoanalytic concept of resistance and the promotion of the counter-virtue of perseverance. This episode includes wannabe standup comedians, the fantasy of homesteading, and ogres? Also there might be a Marvel-style end credit if you stay to the end. ;)

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Sarah and Taylor begin their discussion of acedia with an analysis of listlessness, restlessness, and sadness as the noonday demon tempts us to act or not act in order to avoid spiritual work. This episode includes international fan mail, FOMO! in the Monastery, and pink buckets of KFC chicken.

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Taylor and Sarah give us something different with this episode—our first ever interview with Jeremy Arnold as he shares his move from pastoral ministry to psychotherapy. This episode includes the heart-wrenching tale of the sale of an emotional support dog, the worst improv ever, and the power of asking “why not?”

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Sarah and Taylor conclude their episode on wrath with a reflection on righteous anger and holding the tension of love and hate. This episode includes a Santa fisticuffs, another Bill Lawrence reference (can’t those two just leave him alone!), and a British psychoanalyst who hates babies and wants you to hate them as well.

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