Meeting Anger, Sadness, Anxiety, and Gladness in Psalm 55
What am I mad about? What am I sad about? What am I anxious about? What am I glad about? Recently I came across these four questions as a helpful tool to be proactive in maintaining helathy relationships with God, self and others. We often come to the Psalms because they give us words we struggle to find on our own. They don’t pretend life is simple, neat, or consistently joyful. Instead, the Psalms invite us into a raw, honest, emotionally rich conversation with God. And am
Why Healthy Separation Is the Foundation of Healthy Attachment
There’s a simple sentence that carries profound relational truth: “We must learn to healthily separate so as to healthily attach.” At first, it sounds backwards. Isn’t attachment the goal? Aren’t we made for connection, community, and closeness? Yes — but the way we reach healthy connection may surprise us. Scripture and psychology agree: real attachment requires real identity . And real identity requires the courage to stand on our own two feet before trying to hold someone
Use your experiences with pain to help others
“If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient...
Reorder Priorities
As we fully pursue the emotions in times of suffering, our minds engage in a way that causes us to see life from a new perspective. ...
Process the emotions of pain all the way through
The typical internal reaction to pain and suffering is to do whatever it takes to cause the pain and suffering to go away. This natural...
Approach and express emotions
Seasons of suffering trigger strong emotions. Prolonged seasons of pain cause the emotions to seem like a tidal wave sweeping into one’s...
