Soul Care: Identity Formation
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2026-03-23T23:38:53-07:00What makes up the foundation of your being? If you were to think of yourself as a house, the foundation of your house is underground and unseen. Similarly, your [...]
The Importance of Listening to Your Nervous System: A Christian Counselor Explains
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2026-01-29T22:48:34-08:00Let’s do a quick mental exercise. Briefly recall the last time that you were in a mildly stressful situation. Maybe you were rushing out the door to your car because [...]
The Necessity of Mind-Body Connection
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2025-09-25T00:20:43-07:00You are not a floating head When people enter counseling for the first time, there are often unspoken expectations about how the process will unfold. We’re going to talk [...]
Narrative Therapy and Narrative Focused Trauma Care 101
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2025-08-26T00:47:38-07:00What are the stories that have significantly shaped your life? When we think about our lives and how we’ve gotten to where we are today, I am willing to bet [...]
8 Types of Loneliness and How to Navigate Them
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2025-07-02T02:15:09-07:00Loneliness is an emotional experience characterized often by sadness, desire, longing, and the belief that says, “I am alone in this world.” In many ways, this can be a devastating [...]
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 [...]
When Shame and Self-contempt Show Up
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2025-09-25T05:24:55-07:00Psychiatrist 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 [...]
Fury Within: Understanding Intense Anger
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2025-09-25T06:02:25-07:00What have you been taught about anger? Perhaps anger has been described to you as a monster that lives on the inside. Somewhere deep down where nobody else is [...]
Left Behind: 8 Signs of Abandonment Issues in Relationships
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2024-12-10T21:44:23-08:00“Because separation is a clearcut and undeniable event, its effects on the child and the parent-child relationship were easier to document than more subtle influences of parental and familial [...]
What is Insecure Avoidant Attachment?
Noah Cordrey, Kate Motaung2024-12-20T02:11:25-08:00Take a moment to think back on yourself as a child. Think about your relationships with your parents or caregivers. What were they like? Did you feel safe and [...]