Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Certified Anger Management Specialist, Christian Counselor for Depression, Anxiety, Codependency, Personality Disorders – Canton, Woodstock, Holly Springs GA & Video/Phone
By using this one simple trick, you can turn WHAT IFs into actionable plans. The problem about WHAT IFs is that they are not specific enough to do anything about them, so they are unsolved problems that never go away. So change WHAT IFs into WHAT WOULD I DO IF. Then answer your own question. […]
Between my own journey with my eating disorder and past trauma and my work with my clients, Celebrate Recovery and church members, I have compiled a list of the main reasons why we cannot get free from our hurts, habits and hangups. See if you can find yourself in these. You don’t want to be […]
Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him and that He has the power to help me recover. (Step 2) Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 This season of my eating disorder started 4 years ago when I finally dealt with the physical trauma from my […]
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective […]
A lot of people really struggle with making mistakes, messing up. It can plunge them into despair, make them feel hopeless of ever getting things right, and anxious about the repercussions on their life. These reactions to failures can come from our own perfectionistic temperament, or from an upbringing where being perfect was the way […]
Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect. What does that mean? Most people think it means never making a mistake or never sinning. But that’s not what it means at all. That verse comes from the same chapter as the Beattitudes in Matthew 5. Jesus states that you are not to hate your […]
If you knew you were going to die in 4 years 5 months 3 days and 2 hours and 1 minute, how would you change your life? What would you do differently than you presently do? What if you could see your future 20 years from now – what you would be doing, what you […]
I have been asking God why this one root from my past just WILL NOT GO. It will not move. I have pulled on it and pulled on it and thought it was gone, but then it rises above the dirt and shows its ugly head again and again. The root seems to become tougher […]
I have discovered that there is a voice in my head, a part of myself, that continually makes me panic at the thought of having too much to do. It thinks I won’t be able to handle it. It tells me that, as if it is a truth, and paralyzes me. At least it used […]
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