{"podcast":{"title":"Being Human","slug":"being-human-1367973","podcast_index_feed_id":1367973,"rss_url":"https://beinghumancpi.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://beinghuman.catholicpsych.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/5/0/8/4508d8ce03f136cfd959afa2a1bf1c87/BH-Cover-New.jpg","author":"Dr. Gregory Bottaro","episode_count":297,"summary":"At the CatholicPsych Institute, we're doing something new when it comes to therapy. In the Being Human podcast, Dr. Greg Bottaro, Founder and Director of the CatholicPsych Institute, shares with you his vision for Catholic therapy and a revolutionary approach that is focused, finally, on what it means to be human.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-15T16:21:53.947862+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/being-human-1367973"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 276: Back to Eden: Overcoming the Fear of Being Alone Through Divine Love","slug":"episode-276-back-to-eden-overcoming-the-fear-of-being-alone-through-divine-love","published_at":"2026-04-28T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/being-human-1367973/episode-276-back-to-eden-overcoming-the-fear-of-being-alone-through-divine-love","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/being-human-1367973","url":"https://beinghuman.catholicpsych.com/?utm_source=libsyn&utm_medium=podcast&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=podcast","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/beinghumancpi/BH_276_-_Edited_Audio.mp3?dest-id=2450216","summary":"Being seen is not the same as being known. The life of the party can be the most isolated person in the room — filling every silence, commanding every gaze, and going home to an emptiness no audience has ever touched. In this episode, Dr. Greg goes into the loneliest part of the histrionic pattern: why the most socially active person in the room can also be the most profoundly alone, and why only God can reach what no human mirror ever could. Key Topics: Why being the most social person in the room can also leave you the most alone What it reveals when provoking a reaction starts to feel more real than having a real conversation How early wounds teach you that your existence depends on other people's responses Why heat is not warmth — and reaction is not connection What Henri Nouwen's I-Thou relationship reveals about why an audience never actually fills you Why no parent was ever meant to give you what you most deeply need Why God is not just the answer to this wound — but the only one it makes sense to bring it to Learn More: Need help? Schedule a free CatholicPsych consultation Being Human series on the Histrionic Defense Patterns: Ep. #275: Hiding the Real You: The Histrionic Battle for Intimacy Ep. #274: To Be Loved Is to Perform: Inside the Histrionic Compulsion for Attention and Validation Gaudium et Spes — See paragraph 22 for the full quote of \"Christ reveals man to himself and makes his supreme calling clear\" Henri Nouwen Society — explore Henri Nouwen's writings on the I-Thou relationship Start of the Being Human series on the Borderline Defense Patterns: Ep. #269: BORDERLINE: The Push-Pull Between a Fear of Abandonment and Annihilation Start of the Being Human series on the Dependent Defense Patterns: Ep. #265: Jerry Maguire, Gollum, and the Fear of Not Exi…","meta_description":"Being seen is not the same as being known. The life of the party can be the most isolated person in the room — filling every silence, commanding every gaz…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2699,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/being-human-1367973/episodes/episode-276-back-to-eden-overcoming-the-fear-of-being-alone-through-divine-love/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/being-human-1367973/episode-276-back-to-eden-overcoming-the-fear-of-being-alone-through-divine-love.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}