Your worth was never something you had to earn. In this episode of Already Beloved, a Catholic podcast for women at the intersection of the Catholic faith and psychology, sisters Cambria Davis and Lexa Davis tell their own story: how two girls who started out making films together in Florida ended up here, talking about mental health, prayer, and real life through the lens of St. John Paul II's personalism. Cambria Davis is a Certified Partner Mentor with the CatholicPsych Institute. She traces her path from documentary film into psychology, into practicing as a therapist while pursuing a PhD in clinical psychology, and then into discerning away from that program after her master's toward CPMAP certification, the CatholicPsych Model of Applied Personalism. Lexa Davis, a Catholic creative working in evangelization, shares what five and a half years of ministry and street evangelization have shown her, and what she received in her own mentorship. Together they open up what IDDM actually is, Integrated Daily Dialogic Mentorship, and why healing that happens every day can reach places a weekly forty five minute session often cannot. Grab a cup of tea and settle in. Wherever this finds you, in the middle of an ordinary day or a heavy one, you are welcome here. IN THIS EPISODE: • Why Cambria felt limited practicing as a therapist inside a clinical psychology program, sitting with someone she cared about and not being able to bring her faith into the room. • What CPMAP formation and St. John Paul II's personalism gave her that clinical training could not: stages of spiritual growth, discernment of spirits, and a real anthropology of the human person. • What Integrated Daily Dialogic Mentorship looks like in practice: up to fifteen minutes of voice message every weekday, a response back within twenty four hours, through the private encrypted app Voxer. • Why so much can be lost in the week between sessions, when the moment you were struggling in has already passed. • Lexa's honest account of receiving mentorship through an anxious week, talking with her mentor before, during, and after, and why healing was never meant to be alone. • Why they are both quick to say that therapy is good and that it is not one size fits all, and what it means to be walked with as a whole person: body, mind, spirit, and soul. • What corrective emotional experiences and generalization mean, and how being loved in the messy places begins to change your other relationships. QUOTE TO PONDER: "I didn't know that it was an opportunity to be loved so deeply, to be seen, heard, understood, and just loved there. Especially in the moments when things feel messy, when there are a lot of unknowns and you feel imperfect, like you're not getting things just right. And just to be loved there, in those places." Cambria Davis. SCRIPTURE TO TAKE TO PRAYER: "O Lord, you have searched me and known me." Psalm 139:1. REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1) Where in your life do you carry something alone that was never meant to be carried alone? 2) When you think about being fully seen and known, what rises in you first: relief, or fear? 3) What would be different in your ordinary week if you did not have to get it just right in order to be loved? WORK WITH CAMBRIA: As a Certified Partner Mentor, I accompany clients one-on-one through the CatholicPsych mentorship model: daily relational accompaniment through private, encrypted voice messages, walking together through the places you're longing for healing. Schedule a free consultation call: https://link.fgfunnels.com/widget/bookings/cambria-davis CONNECT WITH US: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/cambriadavis/ Facebook | facebook.com/share/18qXFXNCQY/?mibextid=wwXIfr LinkedIn | www.linkedin.com/in/cambriadavis YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@CambriaDavis.AlreadyBeloved Please see YouTube for a video version of this episode. Learn more about the CatholicPsych Institute: catholicpsych.com
