American Association of Christian Counselors

Are Your Pride and Ego Getting in the Way of Remarkable Things?

The Delightful Gaze in Parenting

The Delightful Gaze of Love

Repentance: A Noble and Worthy Goal

Just as you may need patience in coming to forgiveness, the other person may need time to come to a place of repentance. One of the hardest things to do is to admit you have wronged another person and caused pain.

Trusting God in Times of Anxiety

Saying no to anxieties can be a scary activity. Anxieties appear to provide an answer, a way to know what the future will hold. Granted, that future is always negative, but at least that future is always known. The unknown can be frightening. For an anxiety, what is…

Empathy

“Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another.” Romans 12:15,16(ESV)

Combat Anxiety By Making Healthy Choices

A vital answer to anxiety is making healthy choices about what you eat and drink. Eating healthy is not rocket science. Eating healthy is, however, an intentional activity. You — not anxiety — must choose the types of food and drink best able to fortify and…

Together Forever

“He has also set eternity in the human heart.” — Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)

Do You Categorize Emotional Abuse As Normal?

More than twenty years ago, I wrote a book on emotional abuse because I wasn’t finding much acknowledgment regarding the damage I was seeing in my clients from emotional or psychological abuse. One question I asked in that book was why emotional abuse…

Can Childhood Abuse Lead to Relationship Addiction?

The emotional costs of childhood abuse are significant, but regrettably, they are not the only costs. The long-term effects often manifest later in life and are, therefore, difficult to connect back to the events of an abusive childhood. In…