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Category Archives: Psychology
The human will and the findings of Neuroscience
Sometimes life is not easily reduced to raw choosing. If we treat people only as volitional beings, we fail to relate to them based on the Imago Dei and the human fall from it. One must consider matters related to nurture and nature when addressing complex issues of life in this world. Continue reading
Looking back to move ahead
Are you equipped to walk with others through deep issues? Continue reading
I tried to look normal on the outside
I especially had to conquer childhood fears. Being rejected and imperfect is my ultimate fear. I grew up with an unhealthy and unrealistic belief that I needed to be flawless to be loved. Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Addiction, Biopsychology, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Psychology, Wisdom
Tagged approval addiction, Childhood trauma
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Being a victim but rejecting a victim’s mentality
A woman in her early forties acknowledged that she finally began to overcome the effects of growing up in a violent home when… Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Abuse, Child Abuse, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Psychology, Wisdom
Tagged Child Abuse, Children, Counseling, victim
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The expanded role of medical doctors
Although doctors are primarily charged with caring for physical health, over the last three to four decades, doctors have been called to take the role that was once reserved for a different profession. Continue reading
Posted in ADHD, Anxiety, Biopsychology, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Depression, Despair, Doctor, Holistic ministry, Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology, Social work, sociology, Wisdom
Tagged Anxiety, holistic treatment of patients, medical doctors at risk, new difficulties for medical doctors, pharmachology, role of medicine for depression
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Extravagantly thankful
What if God made you live today on only those things you thanked Him for yesterday?
Where’s my tooth brush? Oh, I forgot to thank God for it yesterday.
“Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.” Continue reading
Posted in Character, Christian life, Christianity, Complaining, Psychology, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving, True Christianity?, Wisdom
Tagged Gratitude, Thankfulness, thanksgiving sermon
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Links worth seeing
The five links below might not appeal to everyone. Yet they’re worth seeing for those who share a wide variety of interests. Enjoy! “…face to face with dying, he was not quite done with living.” A lengthy but interesting look at … Continue reading
Posted in Biopsychology, Church history, Democracy, Government, History, Links to see, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, sociology, Wisdom
Tagged Augustine, Psychology, sociology
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Suffering in silence
She finally gained the necessary courage to tell me a story that she had kept to herself until that point. Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Abuse, Anger, Anxiety, Change, Christian Counselor, Comfort, Counseling, Crisis, Fear, Grieving, Psychology, Relationships, Restoration, Sex, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Social work, Suffering, Suicide, Unresolved issues, Victory
Tagged abuse, Fear, Guilt, Sexual abuse, shame
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Room for normal sadness
Do we have room in our lives for normal sadness? Do we have unrealistic expectations for gregariousness? There appears to be a significant need for helping people understand the role of sadness in life and in character formation.
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Posted in Anxiety, Biopsychology, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Doctor, Emotions, Grieving, Health Care, Holistic ministry, Laughter, Loss, Medicine, Psychology, Sadness
Tagged advice for doctors, Christian Counselors, Depression, feeling sad, Holistic, medical doctors, Medication, Sadness
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Your 18 Year Factor
If you grew up in a functionally healthy home, you had an increasingly rare experience. Continue reading
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