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"I Have to Be Perfect to Be Loved" with Ellen
We all have deep and inherent need for love and acceptance.
But, as children, what happens when unconditional love and acceptance were not freely given? In small ways, many of us learn that a “packaging of self” is...
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When Your Spiritual Growth Feels Frustratingly Slow with Chip
I think everyone could testify to how imperceptibly incremental our spiritual growth can feel in some areas of our lives.
If you’re like me, you often feel a disconnect between the theology that that you believe and...
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"No Matter How Hard I Try I Can't Be Good Enough" with Kylie
“We all are born into the world looking for someone looking for us, and we remain in this mode of searching for the rest of our lives.” - Curt Thompson, MD
But we all have those experiences of being unseen. Un-chosen....
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Healing From the Trauma of Growing up Too Soon with Jonathan
What happens when the circumstances of life force you to grow up too quickly & shoulder a weight of responsibility or caretaking far beyond your developmental age? When our bodies carry the story of an interrupted...
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When It Feels Like You Don't Belong With Amina
How we walk into a room will always carry evidence of our formation.
The way we act, if we get big or small, whether our voices soften or louden, if our shoulders hunch or straighten, whether we anticipate acceptance...
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When Everything Seems Out of Sorts with David Floge, LPC
We are in a series on Faith & Feelings all about emotional dysregulation. Another way to describe this term is the inability to control your insides. It’s those moments when everything seems out of sorts. All of...
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The Thing That Affects Your Minute-to-Minute Life More Than Anything Else
Few things impact your minute-to-minute—life more than emotional dysregulation.Â
Another way to describe this term is the inability to control your insides. It’s that unexpected spiral into anger, anxiety, or...
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Series 3 Trailer | Why On Earth Did I Do (Or Say) That?
Have you ever walked away from a conversation or situation, feeling bewildered or embarrassed, and thought to yourself, “Why on earth did I do (or say) that?”
We all have those disproportionate emotional responses to...
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The Story We Tell Ourselves About Our Suffering
Sometimes suffering lasts…and where is God in this? How do we find joy, hope, and love when life becomes undone?Â
When life doesn’t make sense, we need a theology of suffering that helps us expand to hold the...
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The Things My Eating Disorder Taught Me
Over the last 6 years of recovering from an eating disorder, I’ve known one thing to be true: mental health struggles are difficult to describe, and they can be exhausting to live with. It’s a daily waking up to an...
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The Ache of Emotional Loneliness with Carley
I recently heard loneliness described as “an agonizing hunger.”
It is possible to be in a room full of people and to feel more lonely than if the room was empty. It is to be unseen. And being unseen by those close to...
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Pouring Out Your Big Feelings to God with Lauren
Have you ever poured out your feelings to God, before editing your words?Â
So many of us have internalized a narrative that stuffing down our emotions is strength. As children, we may have witnessed how “being fine”...
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