"Thank you so much for offering this conference. I was in a very rough place this week. It was an experience of deep hopelessness, but not to the point of suicide. I reached out to the Lord for help. Then, your conference came up. This Conference has helped me tremendously! God has helped me grow so much and be renewed. I have concrete plans for moving forward. I have much more hope than when I first began the Conference. " - C.I.
Thousands of happy participants
You're not alone...
You’ve tried spiritual advice—but it ignores your mental health.
You’ve tried secular solutions—but they ignore the soul.
You feel overwhelmed by stress, spiritual dryness, or decision fatigue.
You long for peace in prayer, but distractions, stress, or dryness make you wonder if you’re doing it wrong.
You’ve read spiritual books or gone to therapy—but still feel like something’s missing deep in your soul.
You feel stuck in cycles of overthinking, but can't seem to quiet your mind or hear God clearly.
At the Divine Fulfillment Conference, Catholic experts in both psychology and spiritual theology will help you find lasting peace—through both healing the mind and deepening your prayer life.
PTSD: Understanding Trauma and the Path to Healing – Dr. Melinda Moore
Grief to Grace: Recovery from Sexual Abuse – Dr. Theresa Burke
Recovering from Betrayal Trauma due to Marital Infidelity – Jennifer Perito
Responding to and Overcoming Grief and Tragedy – Rev. Vincent Druding
Post-Abortion Trauma in a Broken Culture – Dr. Theresa Burke
Overview of Rachel's Vineyard Post Abortion Trauma Recovery Program – Dr. Theresa Burke
Tears of the Fishermen: Men and Abortions – Kevin Burke
Human Formation: Recovering from Spiritual Abuse – Dr. Peter Malinoski
Navigating Church Scandal Without Losing Faith – Christine Niles
The Impact of Unforgiveness and How to Forgive – Rev. Dr. David Songy
Overcoming Anxiety: Practical and Spiritual Tools – Br. Fred Cabras
Overcoming Depression: Catholic and Clinical Approaches – Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
Overcoming Hopelessness and Experiencing Hope – Jule Lane
Draw Close To The Lord – +Joseph Naumann
Peace in the Storm: Maintaining a Stable Mental and Emotional Life While Caregiving – Maureen Pratt
Jesus Is Lord, Rest in Him – +Nelson Perez
A Future With Hope – +James Conley
The Call to Holiness: Addressing The Hole in Hearts – +Donald Hying
Overcoming Pornography Addiction – Dr. Peter Kleponis
Overcoming Addiction: Support for Alcohol and Substance Abuse – Amy Krieg
Understanding and Overcoming Scrupulosity – Jacob Flores-Popcak
Breaking Negative Mindsets and Emotional Patterns – Dr. Marcel Lanahan
The Enemy Preys on The Vulnerable: Principles of Spiritual Warfare – Kyle Clement
Limiting Social Media and Building Healthy Routines – Amber Rose
The Dangers of Social Media for Young People and Parenting a Child with Autism – Dr. Angela Wall
The Role of Prayer in Mental Wellness – +Alexander Sample
The Stages of Prayer: Growth in Interior Life – Dan Burke
Asceticism and Contemplation – Jamie Baxter
The Ignatian 14 Rules for Discernment and Mental Clarity – Rev. Timothy Gallagher
Leaving Zen Buddhism and Embracing Interior Life – Ron and Debra Zapka
Leaving Hinduism and Embracing Catholic Mysticism – Kailash Duraiswami
Interior Life and Renewal in the Church – +Joseph
Redemptive Suffering: A Catholic Perspective on Healing – Bob Schuchts
Mental Health as Flourishing, Not Merely Negating Neurosis – Beth Hlabse
Our Gospel-Based Dignity – +Borys Gudziak
The Importance of Fathers for Mental and Emotional Development – Dr. Paul Vitz
Saving Your Child from Digital Destruction and Parenting Anxious Children – Johann D’Souza
Designing a Lifestyle of Mental Health for Parents and Children – Margery Arnold
Promoting Mental Health through Catholic Family Life – Dominic Lombardi
Creating Eucharistic-Centered Community for Flourishing Mental Health – Jennifer Perito
What is Internal Family Systems? – Sam Guzman
How to Maintain a Mindset and Mental Framework of Healing using IFS – Dr. Omar Bravo
What is Authentic Masculinity? – Dr. Ken Buckle
What is Authentic Femininity? – Jennifer Perito
Virtue and Chastity as Self-Gift – +Edmund Whalen
Chastity as the Basis for Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Stability – Jason Evert
Rev. Timothy Gallagher
JP II Healing Institute
Founder of Heart of The Father and Unbound
Founder of the Avila Institute
Founder of The Catholic Gentleman
Founder and CEO of Exodus 90
Founder of Chastity.c1 Columnom
Down 2 Earth Ministries
Religious Hippie Podcast
Hear about their experience...
"My life changed forever"
"Just wanted to say a big thank you for all of your work. I learned so much at the conference. Incredibly valuable for my spiritual growth. Thank you immensely and may God bless you always!"
- J.A.
"Woke up a different person"
"🙏 This conference really impacted me. I woke up a different person today. What a blessing! Today, I was in charge: I asked Mary and my guardian angel for support 😀 I felt their constant, loving pulling me back into my prayers! What a blessing!"
- C.R.
"Awe and amazed"
"God in His Mercy and love is so great, that provided me EXACTLY what I needed to hear and learn, I was so in awe and amazed by the end of it, thank you so, so much!"
- C. H.
"Incredibly valuable"
"I just wanted to say a big thank you for all of your work. I learned so much at the conference. Incredibly valuable for my spiritual growth. Thank you immensely. You have touched so many souls with your fiat, Our Father in Heaven smiles upon you in delight!"
- M.H.
"Impacted so much"
"Oh my gosh THANK YOU!!!!! It was the most amazing conference! It impacted me so uch! I can't not begin t tell you how much good came to me from just the four sessions!!!! Thank you so much!!!"
- B.R.
"Renewed"
"Thank you so much for offering this conference. I was in a very rough place this week. It was an experience of deep hopelessness, but not to the point of suicide. I reached out to the Lord for help. Then, your conference came up. This Conference has helped me tremendously! God has helped me grow so much and be renewed. I have concrete plans for moving forward. I have much more hope than when I first began the Conference. "
- C.I.
Over 40 Hours of Content from over 50 Speakers
Mental Health and Mental Prayer Plan of Life: Template Download and Walk-Through
5 Step Mental Prayer Cheat Sheet
List of Catholic Resources for Mental Health
“SOCA’s work to make [The Soul of the Apostolate] a way of life takes the person to the center of who they are. We are built to live from the soul and our modern world is starving for the food that nurtures the very core of our life as children of God. . . . (SOCA is) essential for feeding that hunger and changing our world.”
“The mental health crisis is a profound challenge to the church and to our society. We must respond with generosity, hope, and compassion to everyone who needs help. We, as Catholics, can and must respond to this challenge with the hope and compassion of our Lord. Individuals with mental illness and those facing mental health challenges are created in the image and likeness of God. They retain their God-given dignity. If you or a loved one is struggling with mental health, our message is clear. You are the treasure of the church... As pastors we are not mental health professionals, but we can be mental health ministers. We can engage in this challenge by bringing the hope of the gospel, the message that God is eternal love and mercy. We can affirm the dignity of every person. We can raise the moral issue, that our society must do better at reckoning with the challenge of mental health in our day and age."
“Anxiety and depression weigh heavily on the lives of many people – often those people are youth and young adults. There is hope, though. I speak from experience. I have been on my own mental health journey that has taken me to the depths of darkness and then back to a life in which I once again experience joy and an even deeper love for our Lord... in 2020, I took a leave of absence to attend to my physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual health. This was a very dark time for me. Anxiety led to insomnia, which led to depression, which led to a loss of the sense of God’s presence in my life. I was overwhelmed by my responsibilities as bishop, and relying too much on my own strength. As I received good professional care, I learned that weakness is part of the human condition, but the more we rely exclusively on ourselves, the more those weaknesses are exacerbated. [Taking a que from St. Frances de Sales, I recommend that] throughout the day, before beginning various tasks, let us do three things: acknowledge, offer, and accept. Acknowledge that the Lord is with us and, if needed, ask for his help; offer whatever we are about to do up to him and place it in his hands; resolve to accept whatever happens.”
“Mental health impacts all of us in some way. We’ve either experienced issues ourselves, or we know someone who carries the burden of depression, anxiety, loneliness, grief, or other form of mental illness. With that in mind, we want to empower Catholics everywhere... We also want to provide local Catholic communities with resources to engage in this work, to share and promote existing resources... in my own Word on Fire apostolate, which, as you know, is an online ministry largely, (and) I've seen how social media weighs on the young adults who engage there. Their experience of loneliness, isolation, and anxiety is heartbreaking... God is Love, and so the very ground of being is something like relationship and we're designed for that. [Love] is moving out of oneself, forgetting oneself, and moving into higher and richer forms of existence that's the way to look at it. Love is not a Sentimental state of mind. Love is a kind of metaphysical attitude. I break free of the black hole of my own self-preoccupation so that I can now immerse myself in in the real. So, when I'm talking to you and entering into your world and and showing a concern for you my world's expanded [and] a new dimension of being has opened up to me and now more and more and more I go out..."
“Human life is sacred and must never be abandoned or discarded... Every suicide is a tragedy. Assisted suicide facilitates tragedies and makes the most vulnerable even more vulnerable. Legalizing it would place the lives of people with disabilities, people with mental illnesses, the elderly, and those unable to afford healthcare - among others - at heightened risk of deadly harm... In the few states where assisted suicide is legal, this troubling reality has already taken root. For example, insurance companies have denied coverage for cancer treatment and other life-saving procedures but offered to pay for cheaper suicide drugs instead. And in Oregon, only 3.3% of the patients who died by assisted suicide since its legalization in 1998 were referred for psychiatric evaluation. People facing the end of life are in great need, and must be accompanied with great care and attentiveness. To address each of their needs and alleviate their suffering, patients deserve high quality medical, palliative, and hospice care - not suicide drugs. "
“I am a bishop, but before anything else, I am a human being who understands the severe toll of mental illness, especially when it is left untreated. As a survivor of suicide loss, I have experienced firsthand the pains of mental illness in my own family. Having lost my brother, Tom, my sisters, Mary and Therese, and my brother-in-law, Joe, all through suicide, I understand the importance of finding some comfort in our church and the gift it brings to so many people within our parishes and families... God chose to become one with us in our fragility. And through his own human fragility as Jesus Christ, he accompanies us... Perhaps we need to ask what it means to be perfect as God is perfect. The perfection of God is not achieved by cutting out and throwing away whatever is spoiled or wrong or broken, wounded or damaged. The perfection of God is wholeness, a taking up of all that has happened and is, and including it as part of life, and working with it redemptively, so that even the worst of experiences, the most terrible and destructive events in our history, become part of an ongoing creation, ever renewed."
“A startling truth that struck me as a young priest was the number of people I encountered in the parish who struggled with chronic depression, anxiety, chemical imbalances, a borderline personality, or other forms of psychological and mental challenges. Many of them were married, held jobs, volunteered in the parish, and were remarkably productive but suffered profound anguish in their minds and hearts. Sadly, a taboo still clings to psychological illness. Most people can talk about cancer, heart conditions, and medical treatments of all kinds, but problems of the mind are often feared and denied. I know very holy people who are stymied by an anxiety so severe that they find it difficult to go to church and be in a crowd with other people. Some folks struggle with depression so severe they feel their lives to be worthless and themselves to be unlovable. They find it challenging to pray. Others, because of emotional or psychological difficulties, may act or speak in ways that seem eccentric or off-putting to those around them. They may feel the rejection and derision of people who do not understand them. Those reading this who struggle with any sort of emotional or psychological challenge, please know of my love and prayers for you, the closeness of Christ and the Church, and our sincere desire to reach out, welcome, and serve you. You are not alone, your struggle is not shameful, and you are loved by God and are a beautiful member of the Body of Christ. You can become a saint precisely in the gritty and challenging reality of your life as you find it."
50+ Talks from experts covering practicals on:
Trauma, Abuse, and Deep Emotional Wounds
Anxiety, Depression, and Hopelessness
Addiction, Compulsions, and Negative Patterns
Interior Life, Prayer, and Spiritual Formation
Family, Parenting, and Formation
Identity, Masculinity/Femininity, and Vocation
Mental Prayer Introduction
Plan of Life Template
1-1 Walk through and Guidance with Outreach Coordinator (including login assistance)
Thousands of happy participants
"Thank you so much for offering this conference. I was in a very rough place this week. It was an experience of deep hopelessness, but not to the point of suicide. I reached out to the Lord for help. Then, your conference came up. This Conference has helped me tremendously! God has helped me grow so much and be renewed. I have concrete plans for moving forward. I have much more hope than when I first began the Conference. " - C.I.
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