The High Cost of Stigma: Why Helping Professionals Don’t Seek Help
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4y ago
This September, Americans were hit with disturbing news. Two well-known helping professionals - Gregory Ells, the director of counseling and psychological services at Penn State and Jarrid Wilson, a pastor at Harvest church - each committed suicide, leaving their families and our country grieved and confused and asking why. How did these men who were committed to helping others, who had the ..read more
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Wrestling with Proverbs 31: The Trusthworthy Wife
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5y ago
Proverbs 31. The one passage that both inspires and overwhelms us simultaneously. The passage that drives us but can make us feel insecure and ineffective as a woman of God. This passage and I have a conflicted history. Ten years ago, I joined a mom’s Bible study. I was trying to parent one (very difficult) six-month old, we had just purchased a small house in a new town and I was drowning. I ..read more
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The Danger of 180-degree/Reactive Parenting
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5y ago
As a counselor, I've worked with thousands of individuals and couples struggling with parenting. It is amazing how at the beginning of parenthood, everything seems exciting. Babies are sweet, smell wonderful and love cuddling. But as they grow, we realize that parenting is hard. When your sweet adorable infant becomes a terror at age three or your preteen screams, “I hate you,” emotion overwhelms ..read more
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How to Keep Anxiety and Control from Eroding Your Faith
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5y ago
Control. The dreaded C word. As Christians, intellectually we know control as a response to doubt and fear can be problematic. We’ve all witnessed situations where someone’s need for control destroys friendships, a marriage, or a parent-child relationship.  As someone who struggles with this myself, I am not judging others. I understand how that need for everything to be done just. the. way ..read more
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