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In our 3rd and final part of our series on "Of Human Suffering", Dr. Veronica Lenzi returns to share some effective coping techniques to help us be in the moment and why that is so important to dealing with suffering. Suffering is a common human experience no can escape. Nevertheless, there is always hope and healing possible in every experience of suffering.

Thank you for spending some of your valuable time with us. In this 2nd part of a 3 part series on the mysteries of Human Suffering Adele, Becki and Tom will get some insights from Dr. Veronica Lenzi about how there is hope and healing every experience of suffering. Dr. Lenzi also shares how experiences and responses to suffering in the human experience vary and are as unique as the people who suffer those experiences. She also explains how she works with her patients to not compartmentalize suffering and trauma but to work through it through some very specific exercises.

Merry Christmas to you and your family from all of us at Handbook for Humanity and the DesOrmeaux Foundation! Please enjoy this special Christmas episode as Adele, Becki and Tom share a touching letter from St. John Paul II to all the children of the world.

Our team at Handbook for Humanity would like to wish a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to our listeners and their families! As a gift to you Becki, Adele and Tom are adding a bonus episode this week that we feel goes well with the Christmas Celebration.  We hope you enjoy this short discussion as we point out the importance of inheritance as a common human experience and the need for traditions to remember and share what we've inherited.  It's real popular today to complete a DNA test to possibly tell you why your hair or eyes are a certain color or to show where you and your family came from.  But what about spiritual inheritance?   God's plan for humanity's full inheritance is bigger than just Deoxyribonucleic acid.   

In our nearly instant gratification world learning how to wait for something is a skill that is quickly vanishing. Can someone learn how to wait well?  In this episode Colby, Adele and Tom are joined by guest Kyle Melancon to discuss the common human experience of waiting. Kyle, a youth minister with the Diocese of Lafayette, recounts some struggles and trials of having to wait for certain things in his life including the outcome of something very important going on at the time of this recording.     

Relationships often struggle because one or both parties are grasping at something that is not really there. Join Colby, Adele, and Tom as we share a little more about ourselves plus welcome a friend of Theology of the Body Community of Acadiana, Kyle Melancon, to discuss the conflict of grasping versus receiving in relationships. What are the signs you might be grasping in a relationship? Do you know how to receive well in a relationship? What is a healthy level of giving in a relationship?  This and more on Handbook for Humanity!

This week Becki & Adele get some help from producer Tom to handle a call-in from two frequent listeners to Handbook for Humanity.  Lisa Myers and Pam Andrus have listened to several episodes and we wanted to get their insights on their favorite shows.  Enjoy this short audio review as Lisa and Pam share how certain episodes helped clarify questions in their personal lives and others shed light on spiritual and emotional challenges.  If you would like to be a review guest on an upcoming episode just email us at handbookfh1@gmail.com and we will try to coordinate a time and date you could appear on a future edition of Handbook for Humanity.  Thank you for listening! 

In part 3 of this 3 part series on the Mysteries of Suffering, Becky and Adele will continue to get insights of the hope of healing trauma in the body from guest Dr. Veronica Lenzi.  Dr. Lenzi will also share some coping techniques to help us be in the moment and why that is so important in dealing with healing.  Suffering is a common human experience no one can escape.  Nevertheless, there is always hope and healing possible in every experience of suffering. 

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In part two of the 3 part series on the Mysteries of Human Suffering, Becky and Adele will get insights of the hope of healing trauma in the body from guest Dr. Veronica Lenzi. Suffering is a common human experience no one can escape. Nevertheless, there is always hope and healing possible in every experience of suffering. Like death and the afterlife, suffering has an element of mystery that cannot be neatly analyzed and categorized. Experiences and responses to suffering in the human experience vary and are as unique as the people who suffer, namely all of humanity. In this series, we ponder this mystery and hope to bring forth hope in the healing elements available in all experiences of suffering. Such healing has the capacity to ground us in an authentic experience of human life and integral growth as a person.

Join Colby, Adele, and Becki in conversation on the experience of suffering in the light of the writings of St. John Paul II. Suffering is a common human experience no one can escape. Nevertheless, there is always hope and healing possible in every experience of suffering. Like death and the afterlife, suffering has an element of mystery that cannot be neatly analyzed and categorized. Experiences and responses to suffering in the human experience vary and are as unique as the people who suffer, namely all of humanity. In this series, we ponder this mystery and hope to bring forth hope in the elements of healing available in all experiences of suffering. Such healing has the capacity to ground us in an authentic experience of human life and integral growth as a person.

Link to Fr. Stan Fotuna video series breaking open JPII's document, "On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering", that Becki mentioned during the episode. 

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