All are saddened, frustrated and struggling with the turmoil COVID has caused, but not all are suicidal, relapsing on drugs, beating their children, abandoning their marriages or giving up on life. Everyone is peeling back the onion, but not all are falling apart. Why?
The easiest part of my job as a psychologist is science. Neurology, biochemistry and psychopharmacology. But in my experience life’s greatest heartaches are not biological but spiritual.
In psychology, there is a difference between clinical anxiety and fear. Fear is a healthy function of survival. So how does fear and anxiety work in the Christian life?
When I was a young psychology intern my supervisor once said, “Most people who come for therapy already know what they want, they are just looking for affirmation.”
Recently I worked with a client who shared her fears about life. She talked about COVID and fears of losing her job. But then the conversation took an odd turn.
No subject challenges the love of God more than the problem of evil. Because of this problem, many people reject the idea of a loving God. What kind of God would let some of us prosper, and abandon others to the horrors of history?
After 35 years of working in mental health, certain patients have left a permanent impression. He was one of those individuals.
“Serenity” (the absence of stress) is the humility to know what you can and can’t control. How is that achieved?
Do Christians today bad mouth one another’s church programs? How do you think that appears to the nonbeliever? What about the Christian who is struggling with his faith?
This is the paradox of freedom. Childhood has the most rules and constraints yet the greatest freedom from psychological conflict.
