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What Is Trauma?

Understanding Your Story Through a Biblical Lens When most people hear the word trauma, their mind goes straight to war veterans or survivors of violent abuse. And yes, those experiences are absolutely traumatic. But trauma is actually much broader than most of us...

Can Christians take antidepressants

Can Christians Take Antidepressants? Here’s What I Actually Think Let me start with the question I hear almost often in my counseling sessions. “Is it wrong for me to take antidepressants?” “Does needing medication mean I don’t really...

What Does the Bible Say About Anxiety?

Anxiety, Fear, and the Peace You’ve Been Looking For Let me just say this upfront. If you are lying awake at night with your mind racing, your heart pounding, and your thoughts spiraling into every worst-case scenario imaginable, you are not broken. And you are...

Conviction vs. Condemnation: How to Know

How to Know if God Is Speaking or You’re Feeling Christian Guilt Have you ever found yourself wondering: what is the difference between conviction vs condemnation? “Is this God convicting me… or am I just feeling guilty?” Maybe you made a...

Introvert or Extrovert?

Understanding God’s Design for Your Personality Let me ask you something. Have you ever left a party feeling completely drained, even though you had a wonderful time? Or have you ever come home from a long weekend alone and felt genuinely flat, like something...

Why Can’t I Stop Thinking?

What the Bible Says About an Overthinking Mind Let me ask you something. Have you ever lain awake at 2 am in the morning replaying a conversation from three days ago? Running through every possible worst-case scenario? Analyzing a decision you already made and...

What Is Misbelief Therapy? A Christian Counselor Explains

“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 Women come to me for all kinds of reasons. Anxiety. Depression. Relationships falling apart. Addictions. Grief. Let me tell you something I have seen over and over again in nearly...

Holy Imagination – In the Presence of God

Walking Boldly In the Presence of Christ as the Puritans Let me introduce you to a practice that changed how I counsel people, how I pray, and honestly, how I get through hard days myself. Before you click away, hear me out. Because what I am about to describe is not...

Why Do I Still Doubt God?

Understanding the Difference Between Feelings and Truth Let me tell you something I hear more often than almost any other question in my counseling work. And I hear it quietly, almost like the person asking is a little embarrassed to say it out loud. “If I...

Religious OCD

Trusting God’s Certainty Instead of Searching for Your Own Let me tell you about a conversation I have probably had a hundred times in my counseling work. A woman sits across from me, or these days appears on my screen, and she looks exhausted in a way that goes...