Tag: heal the pain

Why Did I React Like That?   So here’s my theory. If we can learn to have better reactions, we’ll have better relationships. Now, obviously, Jim, you have taught me that we need to shift from reactions to responses. And that is 100% true. And at the same time, right when our happy gets bumped [...]

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The Truth About Addiction Most People Don’t Know Today we want to talk about addictions and I’ve got of course my good friend Jim Crest here who is licensed professional counselor and Dr. Dr. Joel Mudamali and we want to approach this both from a therapeutic standpoint also a theological standpoint and lastly an experiential [...]

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Is Pornography Actually Harmful? So this whole season of therapy and theology, we’re talking about things people are experiencing behind closed doors. Often it’s relational dynamics that they’re experiencing. They don’t know what to do about it. And I felt it was really important to talk about this subject, pornography. I found in so many [...]

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Part One: Reacting to the Top Moments From Therapy & Theology Season 8 Hello therapy and theology friends. My name is Shay and I’m here with two of my good friends, Amanda and Kayla today and we are basically hanging out and kind of just watching some of the most notable uh maybe like wisdom [...]

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Part Two: Reacting to the Top Moments From Therapy & Theology Season 8  All right, let’s move on to clip number three. And I think one misunderstanding around narcissism is often we think that the root of narcissism is pride. And the root is not pride. The root is actually shame that pride helps cover [...]

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What Is the Difference Between Forgiveness and Reconciliation? I want to turn to Ephesians 4 26. It says, “In your anger, do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry and do not give the devil a foothold.” You know, I used to read this verse and think in [...]

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Why Reflecting on the Past Can Be Dangerous  One part of acceptance that’s really important for us to deal with too is it’s not just accepting that I was going to be a divorced woman. It was also accepting what happened in the past and not traveling mentally back into my past and rewriting things [...]

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Overcoming What-If Thinking We have to protect our minds from the myriad of messages that our world wants to put on us. And if we stay completely open to everything, not everything is good for us, right? The scripture talks about that, >> you know, um everything is permissible, but not everything is >> beneficial. [...]

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When You Miss the Person Who Wasn’t Good for You It’s been almost a year since my divorce, but I still feel stuck in [music] sadness and regret over going through with the divorce. As time goes on, it’s harder to remember the abuse and betrayal that led to the divorce, and I long for [...]

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When Life Feels on Hold and God Seems Late How can I keep from feeling like my life is stalled out while waiting for my divorce to be finalized? I feel like I can’t move on or function because I’m afraid of my husband’s retaliation until we’re legally divorced. I really relate to this question, [...]

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