God is a God who feels. He created us to feel, and it is our capacity to feel that allows us to relate to Him and others. If we are not feeling, we are not relating. And if we are not relating, there is no hope for healing. Feelings are the tools … [Read more...]
A key part of my story is that, unfortunately, but I’m learning not surprisingly, the response from some of our friends and people in church was hurtful and compounded my trauma. It’s a hard thing to just sit with someone in their pain. And that can … [Read more...]
I remember my first counseling and group sessions. There, prominently displayed on the wall was this thing called “The Feeling Wheel.” And, of course, just like I’d seen once in a cheesy counseling scene on TV, somewhere in the beginning of every … [Read more...]
, In 2016, I began to work for a Christian counseling agency that specialized in working with couples and individuals who struggled with sex addiction and betrayal from their partner’s addiction. This is where recovery finally began for us. It was … [Read more...]
"Over the next 14 years, we would do the dance that I described (previously). Bobby continued to share staggered disclosures with me of his acting out, adding more pieces of the bigger picture of what his addiction entailed, but for years we had no … [Read more...]
