Mental Health
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As some of you may know, I spend a lot of time on continuing education focused on my pastoral counseling work. I am a Board Certified Mental Health Coach through the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC). I am currently half way through upgrading that credential to Professional Mental Health Coach. I have taken courses
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Four days later and my sabbatical is coming to an end. As I prepare to head back home to a full schedule I’m reflecting this morning on what God has shown me these past days. Yesterday I blogged on taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. I went through each word and its
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Another morning on sabbatical and more revelations from God. I shared earlier the epiphany about how Negative Self Talk (NST) actually is inner child abuse. But NST isn’t my only problem. I also have other troubling thoughts that stem from my background of child abuse and being victimized (you don’t need the gory details…). This
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I’m sitting here in a hotel room at the Oregon Coast watching the waves cover a rocky patch on the beach. Nice to get away – no noise but the waves coming in and out and the thoughts in my head. I’m supposed to take a sabbatical away from my ministry a couple times a
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I was preaching last night and somehow got on the subject of mental health. I’m just as surprised at what comes out of my mouth as everyone else! I was making the point that counseling is great, and that medication is great but it’s a two-legged stool that will always fall if you don’t add
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Something’s going on. It started about 18 months ago – you could just feel something was changing. I talked with my accountability partner about it – he was feeling it, too. We couldn’t pinpoint it back then, but we just felt that there has been this spiritual intensity that we’ve never felt before. And we
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