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“Do Not Be Afraid … You Are My Dearest Friends”*

Toxic Fear is perhaps life’s greatest hostage-taker. One psychiatrist calls it a “disease of the imagination.” Fear and disabling Worry can start off like a tiny seed and, watered by thoughts that emphasize worst-case scenarios, grow into a virus-like fiend that ends up dominating our mental state. It then holds us back from our ability to enjoy nearly every dimension of our life: our talents, our work, our love, our play, and our approach to a life in the Spirit.

This website is dedicated to three major Defense Systems that can be effective in helping us overcome the insidious nature of fear, as well as other mental health demons like depression. It will also focus on how we can better live out our lives free of those persistent foragers that roam throughout the corners of our minds… relentlessly haunting us.

Those three Defense Systems are: Spirituality, Psychology and Addiction. All three of these provide newly developed means of delving into the root causes of fear and depression and other mental health disorders, and assisting people in finding improved pathways to freedom, joy, and peace.

“Do not be afraid” – a phrase found 365 times in Sacred Scripture!

*Luke 12:32; translation found in The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eugene H. Peterson

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Jesus and Me?

Aug 14, 2026

Just before the turn of the 20th century, a child was born to a Brooklyn, NY, family that was “solid, patriotic, and middle class,” says Wikipedia. The child’s father was a sportswriter...

mm Tom Carney

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mm Tom Carney

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Jul 31, 2026

Traditional Christianity has always emphasized the need to “do God’s will.” Fine, but if God exists, he/she is “out there” somewhere, so hidden that I don’t have a clue...

mm Tom Carney

The Miracle of Existence

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The fact that the earth exists among the unimaginable vastness of the universe is nothing short of miraculous. And human reproduction – that each human female has about 300,000...

mm Tom Carney

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Jul 10, 2026

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Jul 03, 2026

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