Videos

Jan. 17, 2023

How to Pray without Spiritually Bypassing

When I'm feeling anxious / afraid, how can I seek God's help without spiritually bypassing my difficult emotions? For more content like this, visit my Website: https://www.integroformation.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/animann/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/integroformation/ Podcast: https://www.becomingmepodcast.com

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Jan. 12, 2023

How does becoming more integrated FEEL like?

We all know how it feels when we're fragmented and living from a place of defensiveness or insecurity. But what does it feel like when we are more integrated? How does becoming more integrated FEEL like? For more content like this, visit my Website: https://www.integroformation.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/animann/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/integroformation/ Podcast:…

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Jan. 10, 2023

The Reality of Discerning & Living Out Our Personal Vocation

In this recording of an impromptu Instagram Live I share a significant turning point of my own journey of discernment, clarification and living out of my personal vocation as it is happening. I talk about some of the twists and turns of this journey and the reality of how challenging…

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Jan. 5, 2023

Understanding vs Living Faith

Many of us have the assumption that learning more about our faith or understanding it more deeply will help us to LIVE it better. That's actually not entirely true, and here's why... Visit: http://www.integroformation.com

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Dec. 15, 2022

Are you becoming more REAL this Christmas?

Every year as we approach Christmas, there are a lot of things to do and get off our checklists. Even the spiritual/religious side of things can feel like auto-pilot. Doing them may even make us feel good. But are we becoming more real? Are we letting Christ become more real…

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Dec. 13, 2022

2022 Wrap Up & Offers Update

If you've been following my content or are thinking of working with me to make progress in your interior journey, this video is for you! I recap the essence of what I do and also share some updates about what to expect if you are interested in working with me.

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Nov. 22, 2022

Is it Self Indulgent to Seek Our Own Healing?

Interior work takes a lot of energy, commitment and time, and in seasons of deeper healing it is often necessary to withdraw from a more active life in the community to spend more time in solitude and rest. But is this being self-indulgent and self-centred? Watch this video to hear…

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Nov. 14, 2022

Why the people we are close to may not be the right ones to accompany us in our interior journey

In this video I answer the question some people have about why it is not sufficient or appropriate to have our friends, spouse or community members as accompaniment in our interior journey.

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Nov. 9, 2022

Why we need others in our journey into solitude

In an earlier video I talked about how self-knowledge and community requires us to grow in solitude. However, we also cannot grow in genuine solitude all on our own! In this video I explain why that is and why we need the right people to facilitate our inner journey to…

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Nov. 7, 2022

Self Knowledge, Solitude & Community

We often hear of the importance that being part of a community plays in our journey of faith. But an emotionally mature and spiritually healthy community cannot exist without solitude. In fact both community and self-knowledge requires solitude.

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Nov. 3, 2022

Do you pray to escape or enter more deeply into reality?

When we are troubled, we long for reprieve. But do we only pray to escape our messy reality? Or can prayer become a means for us to become more present to God's loving presence with us in the midst of our reality?

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Oct. 26, 2022

The 4 Layers of Self-Knowledge

What are the four layers of self-knowledge? How are they relevant to our interior journey into authenticity and wholeness? This video elaborates on the post I made on my Instagram (@animann) and Facebook (@integroformation) accounts.

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Oct. 21, 2022

Self-Knowledge in the Interior Journey

There's a certain point in our spiritual journey where Self-Knowledge becomes especially critical for us to continue making progress towards union with God. In this video I share what the point is and why it is so.

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Oct. 18, 2022

Self Love & Self Denial

If self-love is important in deepening our relationship with God, then what about self-denial? Are the two compatible? In this video I share how self-denial that comes from a place of scarcity and insecurity is not truly loving, and that we need to be patient in our interior journey because…

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Oct. 12, 2022

4 Layers (or Modes) of Knowing God

How can we love what we do not know? Or really come to know what we do not love? When it comes to relationship, knowing and loving are intimately connected. So it matters for us to consider what we mean by "knowing" someone. If you are someone who desires to…

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Aug. 27, 2022

Is A Leader's Spirituality right for you?

This video explains the nature the online course A Leader's Spirituality which I teach. It is meant to help those considering taking the course to make an informed discernment as to whether this offering fits what they need and are searching for.

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July 6, 2022

Leadership & Integrated Spirituality

Good leadership is usually associated with confidence, ability, strength and impact. But what about the interior landscape of the leader? More often than not, what we experience on the inside is lack of confidence, vulnerability, doubt, and anxiety over our weaknesses. This tension between our interior reality and the exterior…

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June 12, 2022

When leadership is both temporal and eternal

What is distinctive about leadership for a lay Catholic, whether we are exercising leadership in our families, at work, or in church communities and ministries? We are called to exercise a leadership that is both temporal (here and now) and eternal, AND we are called to holiness through our lives…

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May 13, 2022

A Christian Response to Shame

How do we respond when we encounter our shame? Do we try to deny it, deflect it, defend ourselves from it, or could there be a way to face it with faith and hope and thus not be defeated by it? In this video I talk about a Christian response…

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April 9, 2022

Loving Much vs Loving Well

While the reasons for committing to healing and wholeness are many, the main reason that drew me into this journey and which keeps me going even when it is challenging is this: I want to be able to LOVE WELL. In other words, I deeply desire to have healthy and…

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March 25, 2022

3 Reasons We Can't Discern Our Calling

Who doesn't wish to have clarity and focus in knowing our personal calling? In this video I talk about 3 reasons why even those of us who embark on retreats and a spiritual discernment process can often still struggle to gain clarity about our calling. These are certainly not the…

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March 16, 2022

Strive Less, Listen More in Our Relationship with God

Do you ever feel like you have to strive harder to deepen your relationship with God yet striving does not seem to bring you greater intimacy with Him? There are times when focused striving helps our interior journey, but our striving can actually be an obstacle when it replaces LISTENING…

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March 1, 2022

ANN CHATS | How can I pray for others contemplatively?

In this time of grave international suffering and crisis with the war in Ukraine, the need to pray for the world is greater than ever. Today, 2 March 2022 is also Ash Wednesday, and a day Pope Francis invites all Christians and people of good will to fast and pray…

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Feb. 13, 2022

ANN CHATS | Are you living your life or just performing?

When we are in performance mode we expect to be assessed, evaluated and we seek to impress. There are times when we need to be in performance mode but what if that's how we approach our whole life? In this Ann Chat I muse about what happens when we don't…

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