What Is Friendship Abandonment?
Becky Pedersen, Kate Motaung2025-06-13T04:39:18-07:00Have you ever had a situation with a friend where you felt that something was different, but you could not put your finger on it? They just don’t act [...]
Loneliness and Depression: Making the Connections and How to Address Them Both
Luke Bartlett, Kate Motaung2025-06-12T02:17:52-07:00You would think that with our ability to reach out across vast distances and communicate instantly with others, loneliness would be a distant memory. Billions are spent each year [...]
Holding Space for Emotions in Grief
Angela Yoon, Kate Motaung2025-06-10T00:40:01-07:00No one truly knows how to navigate grief or what constitutes “normal” grief. It is a process that goes on for longer than we would guess and often involves [...]
How the World Sees Your ADHD (and What God Says)
Corbin D. Nickelberry, Kate Motaung2025-06-10T00:33:53-07:00If you have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), you’ve probably been labeled a time or two. Maybe you were the “hyper kid” in school or perhaps your parents threw [...]
What is Emotional Regulation and Dysregulation?
Christy Fuller, Kate Motaung2025-06-04T23:39:35-07:00Emotional regulation refers to the ability to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions in a way that is appropriate to the situation and facilitates goal-directed behavior. Conversely, emotional dysregulation [...]
5 Ways to Support a Spouse with Mental Health Issues
Cristina Lambert, Kate Motaung2025-06-03T23:36:02-07:00Marriage is a beautiful covenant between a man and a woman. When two people marry, they vow to stay together in sickness and in health till death. But illness [...]
The Presence of Self-Contempt in Your Story
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2025-06-02T00:25:05-07:00In a previous article on shame and self-contempt, I provided a broad definition of self-contempt and gave a brief description of what it is and how it functions. If [...]
Healing the Heart: Affair Recovery
Christina Thompson, Kate Motaung2025-06-02T00:24:53-07:00Few things are as painful as the heartbreak caused by an affair. We get married believing that something like that could never happen in our lives. The reality is [...]
4 Types of Cognitive Distortions and How to Find Support
Monica Anderson, Kate Motaung2025-05-20T02:04:03-07:00In the thirteenth century, there lived a Christian philosopher and theologian named Thomas Aquinas. Due to his meekness and physical size, his fellow students called him “the dumb ox.” [...]
When Shame and Self-contempt Show Up
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2025-05-17T04:16:17-07:00Psychiatrist Curt Thompson, in his book entitled The Soul of Desire, writes, “Evil’s intention for our space and time is very different than the creation of beauty, and it [...]