Articles
Deprivation and Anger
Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Feelings of anger often cover many different primary emotions: hurt, confusion, fear, and rejection. Deprivation, often based in fear, is a part of life. Placing our confidence in the Lord's availability may not reduce deprivation but can help increase our ability to be comforted.
The Hope of Christmas
Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Christmas is a season in which we are reminded of why Christ came. Two things were guaranteed when Christ came into the world.
Daring to Laugh: When Celebration and Sadness Join Hands
Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT
Pain and joy often occur together in life. Learn how God's faithfulness, sovereignty, and hope can be found in the midst of brokenness, failure, or other difficult circumstances.
Depression in the Soul: Five Steps to Freedom
Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT
Depression can distort and inhibit God's true plan for our lives. Article suggests five steps to bring restorative thinking and behaviors that battle sadness, low self-esteem, and hopelessness.
Finding Hope In the Dark Periods of Life
Suzan Myhre, M.S.S.W., LICSW, LPC
This article looks at springtime as a metaphor for hope in the midst of dark periods of life and presents scripture as encouragement.
Guidelines for Help When You Feel Vulnerable or Lost
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Sometimes there is a straight-forward need for some written steps to take when feeling depressed, anxious, crummy, full of discouragement, or when listening to lies in thinking about God's ability to redeem a seemingly failed life. Here are those steps.
How To Move Ahead After Personal Pain
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
The story you tell yourself and others of your difficult situation is important. It is important because the potential for going on in a capable manner after personal pain can be determined by how we frame the experience. Though it is important to tell the exact nature of the experience, including hope in one’s thoughts and expression after a trauma is a survival tool. This article explains how to be honest about difficult times yet cling to hope.
Depression At Christmas
A "Dear Rosa" question and answer regarding depression that is often triggered during the Christmas season.
Helping the Discouraged
Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT
Discouragement can leave us frightened and unmotivated with feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. Drawing from the biblical story of Elijah and an actual family therapy case, this article discusses five steps to helping an individual recover from discouragement.
Making Your Way Through Transition
Suzan Myhre, M.S.S.W., LICSW, LPC
This article describes the challenges we face when going through difficult life changes. It also gives a way of navigating through that difficult time.
Things To Remember When Grieving
Compiled by Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Following guidelines originally written in "How To Grieve" by KAIROS, these steps help the grief stricken person what to remember. Each of these ten statements move the grieving individual towards the strength of God and moving forward into the future with renewed focus.
Broadcasts
Escaping Your Mental Swamp #1 of 2, #2221
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Growing Old #629
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
The process of growing old deserves and receives discussion of the aging process and the deep losses experienced.
Depression and its Treatment #1 of 5, #2081
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
This series on depression begins with a thorough overview of the biological and social aspects of depression and its treatment.
Depression and Its Treatment #2 of 5, #2082
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Lynda continues with her defining of and overview regarding the treatments available for depression.
Depression and Its Treatment #3 of 5, #2083
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
An overview of the possible treatments, biological and social causes of depression.
Depression and its Treatment #4 of 5, #2084
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
A thorough overview of the biological and social aspects of depression.
Depression and its Treatment #5 of 5, #2085
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
In this program specific questions about depression and its workings are discussed.
Nourishing Thinking #1 of 4, #2091
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
A conversation is often taking place in one's mind. How to have nourishing thoughts is explored in this program.
Nourishing Thinking #4 of 4, #2094
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
A conversation is often taking place in one's mind. How to have nourishing thoughts is explored in this program.
Escaping Your Mental Swamp #2 of 2, #2222
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
A road map to getting out of our own mental swamp.
Suicide #1 of 4, #3140
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Suicide is something rarely talked about. It is difficult to wrap one's mind around the concept. Devastating loss representing a depth of personal pain we mostly cannot understand is a part of suicide. In these four programs, Paul and Lynda discuss the reasons for and prevention of suicide.
Suicide #2 of 4, #3141
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Suicide is something rarely talked about. It is difficult to wrap one's mind around the concept. Devastating loss representing a depth of personal pain we mostly cannot understand is a part of suicide. In these four programs, Paul Cameron and Lynda Savage discuss the reasons for and prevention of suicide.
Suicide #3 of 4, #3142
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Suicide is something rarely talked about. It is difficult to wrap one's mind around the concept. Devastating loss representing a depth of personal pain we mostly cannot understand is a part of suicide. In these four programs, Paul Cameron and Lynda Savage discuss the reasons for and prevention of suicide.
Suicide #4 of 4, #3143
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Suicide is something rarely talked about. It is difficult to wrap one's mind around the concept. Devastating loss representing a depth of personal pain we mostly cannot understand is a part of suicide. In these four programs, Paul Cameron and Lynda Savage discuss the reasons for and prevention of suicide.
Helping The Discouraged #1 of 3, #3272
Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT
Discouragement can leave us frightened and un motivated with feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. Drawing from the biblical story of Elijah and an actual family therapy case, this program series discusses five steps to helping an individual recover from discouragement.
Helping The Discouraged #2 of 3, #3273
Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT
Discouragement can leave us frightened and unmotivated with feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. Drawing from the biblical story of Elijah and an actual family therapy case, this program series discusses five steps to helping an individual recover from discouragement.
Helping The Discouraged #3 of 3, #3274
Mary Lambrecht, M.S. LMFT
Discouragement can leave us frightened and unmotivated with feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. Drawing from the biblical story of Elijah and an actual family therapy case, this program series discusses five steps to helping an individual recover from discouragement.
Male/Female Depression & Midlife #1 of 2, #3207
Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Brenda Spina and Paul Cameron discuss some of the characteristics of midlife, the most common being that of depression and the differences between men and women.
Male/Female Depression & Midlife #2 of 2, #3208
Brenda Spina, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Brenda Spina and Paul Cameron discuss some of the characteristics of midlife, the most common being that of depression and the differences between men and women.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Brain #1 of 3, #3169
Post traumatic stress is not just psychological. This three part series discusses particulars about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that have been know for some time: memory difficulties, flashbacks, sleep problems, eating problems, Hypersensitivity and so on. Therapists have known that trauma in a person's past psychologically affects a person's present functioning. Recently, discoveries in Affective Neuroscience show by neuro-imaging, brain blood flow, skin response and a host of other tests, give striking credence to what is seen expressed in therapy through the suffering person's experience.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Brain #2 of 3, #3170
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Post Traumatic Stress is not just psychological. This three part series discusses particulars about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that have been known for some time: memory difficulties, flashbacks, sleep problems, eating problems, hypersensitivity and so on. Therapists have known that trauma in a person's past psychologically affects a person's present functioning. Recently, discoveries in Affective Neuroscience give striking credence to what is seen expressed in therapy though the suffering person's experience.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Brain #3 of 3, #3171
Lynda Savage, M.S., LMFT, LPC
Post Traumatic Stress is not just psychological. This three part series discusses particulars about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that have been known for some time: memory difficulties, flashbacks, sleep problems, eating problems, hypersensitivity and so on. Therapists have known that trauma in a person's past psychologically affects a person's present functioning. Recently, discoveries in Affective Neuroscience shown by neuro-imaging, brain blood flow, skin response, and a host of other tests, give striking credence to what is seen expressed in therapy through the suffering person's experience.
