negativity – Penny Haynes, CADC II, CAMS I, Licensed Pastoral Counselor

God’s Plan For Our Problems

May 31, 2012

| anxiety, Christian Women With Depression, fear, Featured Post, hope, loss, negativity, overwhelmed, panic

Rom 8:26-39 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession […]

Blocking The Voices In My Head

March 4, 2012

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| autism, Christian Women With Depression, condemnation, Depression, distractions, hearing God, hope, hopelessness, negativity, Self Talk

Sometimes we have to take drastic measures. Sometimes we have let the enemy have such free access to our minds and our lives that we have forgotten how to block him out so we can focus and hear the voice of God. Once, during a church service, while I was waiting for prayer, I heard […]

You Only Fear What You Think May Be True

July 5, 2011

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| anxiety, audio podcast, Christian Women With Depression, condemnation, failure, fear, Featured Post, negativity, sin

Listen to a short audio clip here: FearThatThingsMayBeTrue (mp3) Do you know that you can only be hurt by things others say if you think the statements are true? If people say things to you that are obvious lies, you will shake them off. But when you fear that what they say may be true, […]

Pathos and Happily Ever After

June 28, 2011

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| anxiety, audio podcast, Christian Women With Depression, Depression, disappointment, discouragement, expectations, fear, happiness, negativity

Click to listen to this clip from an interview I did on depression and anxiety: Pathos (mp3) Pathos comes from the greek word for experience and suffer, and as long as we are in this world, we will have experiences and some of them will lead to suffering. It is illogical to believe that there […]

Are You Your Own Tormentor or Comforter?

November 20, 2010

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| Christian Women With Depression, discouragement, gratitude, hopelessness, negativity, Self Talk, think it through

I talked with a friend whose verbal outpouring is consistently negative. Her mental framework has been set for so long, she thinks her distorted view of her life and the world is reality. She reminds herself constantly of how horrible her (perceived) life is, reciting how horrible her (perceived) history has been, and taunting herself […]

When Those You Love Hurt

November 1, 2010

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| anxiety, Christian Women With Depression, disappointment, fear, negativity, worry

Being a parent can be a wonderful thing at times, while at other times, you are exasperated, dumbfounded and shocked at what being a mother entails. You want to love them, be there for them, and protect them from everything. Just one problem – you can’t. And that is very hard to bear sometimes. Have […]

Attacks On Our Hope: Attack of the Turkeys

October 27, 2010

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| Christian Women With Depression, Depression, hope, hopelessness, negativity

Do you remember that old saying, “Don’t let the turkeys get you down”? Basically, it meant that you can’t let other people get to you. Easier said than done, right? We all know that being around other people who don’t get excited about what we get excited about, or even worse, who poo poo us […]