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How Do I Talk About Divorce With My Kids? today’s topic is really hard I am so sensitive to the conversation we’re having today about divorce honestly my team and I wrestled with how much we want to continue to talk about this topic but I personally know many of you are struggling with the [...]

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What We’re Angry About Grows I um was studying the story of Joseph and how his brother’s anger against Joseph and it stemmed a lot from jealousy you know because Joseph was the the favorite Child and also Joseph apparently got this La lavish gift called a robe which signaled he wasn’t going to have [...]

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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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