Emotional Health and Marriage

   Authors Art and Laraine Bennett will join me for a discussion of their newly released book: “The Emotions God Gave You: A Guide for Catholics to Healthy and Holy Living.”   In this insightful and easy-to-read book, Catholic therapist Art Bennett and his wife Laraine explain how our emotions affect us and how our thoughts, attitudes, and behavior can affect our emotions. In a conversational and nontechnical way, the authors address these and other questions: What are the effects of temperament and our past experiences on our emotional health? Can we trust our feelings? When do our emotions become destructive? How do past emotional wounds affect our present-day emotional balance?     Art and Laraine Bennett have been married for 34 years and have four grown children.  Art spent over 25 years as a Marriage and Family Therapist, is the founder of Alpha Omega Institute (www.aoccs.org) in Bathesda, Maryland and currently the President and CEO of Catholic Charities for the Arlington Diocese in Virginia.  Laraine is a freelance writer, with Master’s Degrees in Philosophy and Theology.  They are the authors of The Temperament God Gave You (2005), The Temperament God Gave Your Spouse (2008), and The Emotions God Gave You (May 2011). They were guests on “Your Marriage Matters” on 12/21/10.