However, both formation guides and formees in general need to be more aware of and pay greater attention to the need for emotional healing in order to be more healthy and integrated.
It is not uncommon to see among religious and priests the following symptoms of emotional disturbance: high levels of anxiety; guilt; feelings of worthlessness and self-hatred; various phobias, depression and moodiness, various addictions and obsessions; cheating, stealing and lying; inability to trust; uncontrollable anger; and suicidal ideation and attempts. Now all these are psycho-emotional problems that beset human beings everywhere, and priests and religious are not insured against them in spite of years training and formation. What is lamentable is that even after years of formation, both initial and ongoing, these problems continue. This situation points to a serious lacuna in our formation process. The formation process and the formation guides need to take this situation into consideration and help the candidates to work through these psychological and emotional problems. Formation guides can help in this area only if they themselves have sound understanding of their own emotional life and they have also done serious personal work to heal their emotional woundedness. This chapter helps formation guides to better understand emotions - their own and those of the formees.
However, both formation guides and formees in general need to be more aware of and pay greater attention to the need for emotional healing in order to be more healthy and integrated.
It is not uncommon to see among religious and priests the following symptoms of emotional disturbance: high levels of anxiety; guilt; feelings of worthlessness and self-hatred; various phobias, depression and moodiness, various addictions and obsessions; cheating, stealing and lying; inability to trust; uncontrollable anger; and suicidal ideation and attempts. Now all these are psycho-emotional problems that beset human beings everywhere, and priests and religious are not insured against them in spite of years training and formation. What is lamentable is that even after years of formation, both initial and ongoing, these problems continue. This situation points to a serious lacuna in our formation process. The formation process and the formation guides need to take this situation into consideration and help the candidates to work through these psychological and emotional problems. Formation guides can help in this area only if they themselves have sound understanding of their own emotional life and they have also done serious personal work to heal their emotional woundedness. This chapter helps formation guides to better understand emotions - their own and those of the formees.
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