The Body Keeps the Score. But the Mind and Heart Do Too.
A new study suggests that Van der Kolk’s body-focused view doesn’t capture the complexity of the human experience with trauma.
Emotional Validation Isn’t Always Loving
Contemporary culture says we should always validate feelings. But biblical wisdom requires a more nuanced approach.
College Minister, Consider Why Students Come to You for Counsel
Amid their pain and discouragement, we must remind hurting students that there’s a God who loves them with an everlasting love.
Why the Goal of Spiritual Formation Can’t Be Balance
If balance and emotional health are the end of our spiritual formation, then all we’re doing is looking for techniques toward self-sufficiency—the flesh rather than Christ—for our healing and wholeness.
Why Women Are Going to Therapy Instead of Church
Church members are increasingly looking only to therapists to help them with emotional and relational struggles because they don’t consider those problems to be related to their spiritual lives.
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