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Episode 8: BONUS: Overcoming Acedia with Carly Caminiti

Episode 8: BONUS: Overcoming Acedia with Carly Caminiti

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 Christina: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Moderate Catholic, where we discuss topics that deepen faith and inspire action. I am your host, Christina Gebel, and this is Episode 8: Bonus: Overcoming Acedia with Carly Caminiti. So, we have a very special person here with us today to help us with this bonus episode of overcoming acedia, and it is my great pleasure to introduce Carly Caminiti, who is a certified executive coach, and Carly and I know each other because we overlapped for several years in Boston. We were part of the same parish. We even did some parish council years together and also share in common that we have both worked in the public health field.Clearly, we were meant to know [00:01:00] each other, hang out, and our Catholic faith was one of the gems of how we both came to know each other and also valued each other’s friendship. So, Carly, welcome.Carly Caminiti: Thank you. Happy to be here. And you forgot that we also have the same alma mater college, even though we didn’t know each other.Christina: Yes.Carly Caminiti: We probably passed each other down the hallways, down the sidewalks…Christina: Yes, yes, yes. I did forget that because. We didn’t know each other at the time, and we only made that realization, but we have the same beloved Jesuit University alma mater for our undergrad, soCarly Caminiti: Woo-hoo!Christina: The similarities are endless. So, Carly, thank you so much for taking the time out of your schedule today to sit here and be with us. You and I have talked a little bit outside of this episode [00:02:00] about acedia and kind of what we’re trying to do and the topic that we’re gonna talk about today with you is so appropriate to overcoming Acedia.Before we get into that, I just want to ask you a little bit about how you’ve taken the work that you do as an executive coach and integrated faith and spirituality into that.Carly Caminiti: Honestly, it kind of integrates itself because when people have views about themselves or things about themselves that they wanna change, it almost certainly comes down to who they are and how they wanna be.So, if that person has any sort of spiritual life whatsoever, then it comes up and out during our sessions together. I don’t necessarily market myself as a Catholic executive coach per se, but I would say that it’s very, very interesting how many times it comes up with folks that I work with about how connected their faith is to how they feel about [00:03:00] themselves.It’s a very easy combination when you’re working with people who are trying to reach their goals, and then they are the ones who make the connection to God, to their faith, and to how they wanna live their lives.Christina: That’s, that’s incredible. And just hearing you speak I did have a curious question. Does it usually come up in a positive sense in terms of how they feel about themselves?Carly Caminiti: I would say that more often than not, it’s just people mention that they believe in God and/or they tell me what kind of faith that they have. Part of the things that we’re gonna talk about today are really how do does our faith relate to how we view ourselves, and how are we shaped by those views. And, how then, can we show up better in the world today based on exactly who we wanna be and what kind of example we wanna follow. So, yes and no.Christina: Beautiful. Beautiful.Carly Caminiti: And Christina, I wanna ask you if you could read a prayer that I [00:04:00] adapted that’s gonna sound familiar to you, because it’s adapted from the prayer of St. Francis. But, I would like just for you to read it and then kind of think about how it feels as you read it.Christina: Sure. I would love to. All right.Prayer of St. Francis (Adapted by Carly Caminiti)Make me a channel of your peace,Where there is self-hatred,Let me bring your love.Where there is self-injury,Your pardon, Lord.And where there’s self-doubt,True faith in you.Make me a channel of your peace.Where there is self-despair in life,Let me bring hope.Where there is darkness,Only light.Where there’s sadness,Ever joy.Make me a channel of your peace.It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.In giving of [00:05:00] ourselves that we receive,And in dying, that we’re born to eternal life.Oh, Master grant that I may never seek,So much to be consoled as to console,To be understood as to understand,To be loved as to love with all my soul.Wow.Carly Caminiti: So, clearly there were just a few adaptations by adding the word “self” in there. How did that land for you?Christina: It is incredible because I think it flowed so seamlessly that it was almost like it was meant to be there.Carly Caminiti: Mm.Christina: You know, I’ve never said this prayer and thought to myself, oh, when I say where there is hatred, that also includes self-hatred, where I say there’s [00:06:00] injury, self-injury, self-doubt…I’ve never thought of that, hearing the prayer prior to now, but it fits so easily ...
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