Peace in the Storm: A Catholic, Whole-Person Approach to Managing Everyday Stress

Everyone carries stress. Few of us handle it well. Most of us do the opposite of what helps: we push it down, numb it, and hope it passes. This short course, built around a Called to Flourish conversation with counselor Ian Masson, offers a better way. You will learn what stress actually is and how it differs from anxiety, how to tell ordinary pressure apart from a problem that needs attention, and a simple, whole-person method for responding, one that treats stress as a signal to listen to rather than an enemy to defeat. Grounded in Divine Mercy University’s Catholic Christian understanding of the person and enriched with both clinical scholarship and the spiritual tradition, the course is designed for counselors and for any thoughtful adult who wants to meet stress with more freedom and more faith.