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Trending with Timmerie - Catholic Principles applied to today's experiences.
Hosted by Timmerie Geagea · EN
Trending with Timmerie on Relevant Radio brings timeless principles of Catholicism to trending thought and experience. Are you looking for relevant ways to bring together trending conversations and timeless principles? Here’s your opportunity to engage the culture head on with truth and Catholic faith.
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Serotonin & Dopamine Fix with a Neuroscientist
Yesterday00:51:12Tap to summarizeNeuroscientist TJ Power – author of The Dose Effect joins Trending with Timmerie. Episode Guide How Do I Fix My Dopamine? (1:58) Why Do We Need to Heal Our Serotonin? (26:40) Human Relationship (40:38) St. John the Baptist (45:04) Tomorrow on Trending (50:42) Resources mentioned: The Dose effect https://thedoseeffect.co.uk/ https://thedoselab.com/# TJ Power https://www.instagram.com/tjpower/
Transcribe →What Do You Do When Your Adult Child Rejects Your Values?
2d ago00:51:30Tap to summarizeRuth Han – EMDR & CBT trauma-informed therapist – and past homeschool mom joins Trending with Timmerie Episode Guide Why you only allowed your children four college major options—and why (1:38) Your best advice for parents of adult children who disagree on faith and morals (17:55) Addressing the idea of going no contact (26:30) Maintaining relationships without compromising core beliefs (32:15) Homeschooling tips and advice (34:59) Is religion divisive? (38:27) Tomorrow on Trending (51:00) Resources mentioned: Ruth Han https://ruthhan.com https://www.instagram.com/ruthhantherapy/
Transcribe →Dating?
3d ago00:50:57Tap to summarizeTips and tricks for singles with professional matchmaker Cristina Pineda who joins Trending with Timmerie: Episode Guide Getting Cancelled while Dating: should you ask her friend out if it doesn't work with her? (1:29) The problems with psychoanalyzing in dating (20:10) I found out on the third date that he’s divorced (30:43) Ideal age gap for a couple? (40:55) How to be more agreeable (43:04) Resources mentioned: Cristina Conti http://matchmakercristinaconti.com Who needs an annulment and how do you start one? https://www.usccb.org/topics/marriage-and-family-life-ministries/annulment#tab--how-do-i-start-the-process Timmerie speaking in San Diego in July https://www.facebook.com/NAMaronites/photos/finding-a-spouse-caring-for-a-family-timmerie-geageawhat-to-look-for-in-a-spouse/1014904074430910/
Transcribe →Making a Catholic Home & Inviting Others In
6d ago00:51:26Tap to summarizePaige Rienzo was an on-camera designer for the HGTV hit, "Hidden Potential" for 5 seasons. She has been in recovery for 30 years from alcohol and an eating disorder. Episode Guide A convert’s take on why Gen Z is becoming Catholic (1:08) How to host people more – hospitality (18:01) Why Catholic homes should look different (23:07) Polling shows a growing shift on abortion (41:36) Monday on Trending (50:55) Resources mentioned: Leisure: The Basis of Culture https://amzn.to/3SCSDm5 Paige’s books https://www.paigerien.com/books Catholics in Recovery https://catholicinrecovery.com/ Past episodes with Paige and her story https://relevantradio.com/2026/01/learning-to-love-the-home-you-have/ https://relevantradio.com/2025/10/healing-vs-the-counterfeit-calm-of-the-new-age/ Past shows on yoga: https://relevantradio.com/2025/04/the-lure-of-eastern-spirituality/ https://relevantradio.com/2022/09/is-yoga-really-just-stretching-2/ New #WeCount Data Show Slight Abortion Increase in 2025 New #WeCount Data Shows Slight Abortion Increase in 2025 | National Review Quick and Easy Hamburger Buns https://thefeatherednester.com/quick-and-easy-hamburger-buns/ The Rule: St. John Paul II's Rule for a Joy-filled Marriage of Divine Love https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578395657?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
Transcribe →Summer Fun!
1w ago00:50:56Tap to summarizeFormer Marine Patrick Whalen, CEO of Iliad Athletics, joins Trending with Timmerie. Episode Guide Get moving over the summer – getting in shape and physical fitness (1:27) What are we doing with our kids in the summer? What do they need? (Ozempic for kids? (19:23) Catholics need to take a summer vacation (36:24) Why teens don’t work during the summer (46:23) Resources mentioned: Iliad Athletics https://iliadathletics.com/ https://screenstrong.org/
Transcribe →Reinventing Yourself
1w ago00:50:54Tap to summarizeDr. Hannah Spier joins Trending with Timmerie. A Norwegian-born psychiatrist and cognitive behavioral psychotherapist based in Zurich, she dissects how liberal narratives, pop-therapy fads, and identity politics have reshaped the mental health field. Episode Guide What can you do to prevent cluster B? What do you do if it happens? (0:46) The Explosion of Diagnoses – questioning trends involving ADHD, autism, and other diagnostic categories (25:25) Can we defy our nature and have an inhuman experience? Is it through the latest technological update? What does Pope Leo say? (40:28) Tomorrow on Trending (50:24) Resources mentioned: Dr. Hannah Spierhttps://hannahspier.substack.com/p/selected-op-eds-and-essays Parenting Kids Without the Chaos https://relevantradio.com/2026/04/parenting-kids-without-the-chaos/ Drama-Free Discipline https://sophiainstitute.com/product/drama-free-discipline/?srsltid=AfmBOoq6-Ni5dwH7jpKlv5T7P_5rmJo2A7nJbprXd25Zbm94RQpVnzUV More episodes with Dr. Hannah Spier https://relevantradio.com/?cat=23210&s=Dr.+Hannah+Spier Book: “Transformed by Grace” https://amzn.to/4xwkBQB
Transcribe →Embrace failure & suffering
1w ago00:51:25Tap to summarizeOn this episode of Trending with Timmerie: Episode Guide Human pain and suffering draws us together and makes us Catholic (0:45) Where are you sending your kids to school? What about homeschooling? (20:59) Why has the World Cup caused people to fall in love with America? (32:42) Narcissism and Childlessness (38:23) Tomorrow on Trending (50:54) Resources mentioned: Pope Leo XIV Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Reading https://amzn.to/4vThr7B Handwriting without Tears https://amzn.to/4uDGlHq The Good and the Beautiful – free if printed https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/pages/free?srsltid=AfmBOopcwJVOjXFncAfCldR-_ru-MDqYRodq8eXuU4bl3JpF0IKSokgP Saxon Math – bump up one grade https://www.rainbowresource.com/saxon-math?srsltid=AfmBOoolaDNvmPDP1i4W-t5M8eo69aEcIVvw-DXf96psM7VwRLaFaMWg Narcissism and Childlessness https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/narcissism-and-childlessness-0d45686c?mod=free-expression_lead_story https://www.kolbe.org/relevant
Transcribe →The Happiness Question Nobody Wants to Ask
1w ago00:51:25Tap to summarizeTaylor Fogarty, who once identified as an atheist and lesbian and worked in the sex industry, joins Trending with Timmerie. Episode Guide After the gay discovery wore off, there was nagging unhappiness (1:43) Same-sex attraction and suicide (15:26) Beware of being avant-garde (24:50) Go analogue or get left behind (39:14) Saint Germaine of Pibrac (47:45) Tomorrow on Trending (50:54) Resources mentioned: Taylor’s testimony of becoming Catholic and leaving gay behind https://relevantradio.com/2025/12/from-lesbian-atheist-to-catholic/ Taylor’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/taylorisonline0/ Study – No one is born gay. There is no gay gene https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aat7693 More people are formerly gay than gay in the US & UK https://stream.org/celebrate-ex-gay-visibility-day/
Transcribe →The Sacred Heart of Jesus & Eucharistic Miracles
2w ago00:49:05Tap to summarizeDo you understand why there is a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus? Maybe you wonder why there would be a devotion to a heart. Father Tim Grumbach joins Trending with Timmerie to break down the incredible devotion to the Sacred Heart and how it is rooted in Sacred Scripture, the tradition of the Church, and in the writings of Popes. Timmerie also discusses the incredible science behind Eucharistic miracles and what they have to do with the heart of Christ. Do you struggle to believe in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist? Celebrate the month of June dedicated to the Eucharist and the Sacred Heart! Resources mentioned: Haurietis Aquas- Encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus (May 15, 1956) | PIUS XII Listen to the podcast: Month of the Eucharist & Sacred Heart of Jesus
Transcribe →AI, ET & Talking Dolphins
2w ago00:50:54Tap to summarizeOn this episode of Trending with Timmerie: Episode Guide Consecration to the Sacred Heart (2:19) The World Cup starts today! A human centered approach to management – Brenden Aaronson’s marriage (11:16) Gennine on Instagram – I heard you mention your girls go to dance class. What are your thoughts on dancing? (24:27) Aliens & talking dolphins who capture a man – belief in the unbelievable...(32:33) A Catholic take: sentient AI, ET, or smart dolphins (42:41) Resources mentioned: Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus https://relevantradio.com/2026/06/prayer-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus/ Catechism of the Catholic Church 65 ”In giving us his Son, his only Word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word — and he has no more to say... because what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son. Any person questioning God or desiring some vision or revelation would be guilty not only of foolish behavior but also of offending him, by not fixing his eyes entirely upon Christ and by living with the desire for some other novelty.27 (”St. John of the Cross)
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