Finding Mental Resilience After an Injury
After suffering an injury recently, I found myself facing some unwanted limitations in my daily routine. I felt challenged to …
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Putting Thoughts on Trial
“Of course that happened! I’m not good enough, remember?!” “I messed this family time up again, like always!” “Don’t answer …
HALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
In my bio I talk about how “I enjoy helping individuals 18+ notice when their ‘check engine’ lights are coming …
Emotional Numbing
With all its ups and downs, experiencing emotion is a normal part of life. After all, our emotions tell us …
Loss at the Core of All Problems
Grief and Grieving In the height of summer in July, I left to begin graduate school in the suburbs of …
Exercise Therapy: Sweating Out the Stress
Are you familiar with exercise counseling and its benefits? In graduate school, I first heard about therapists taking their clients …
Relational Justice
How do we understand God’s design of justice within humanity? “When we acknowledge Him as Lord, we recognize His ownership …
Emotional Loneliness
Are we emotionally lonely? While we are still social distancing and following the recommended COVID protocols, many of us have …
Welcome, Heidi Sawyer!
HI, I AM NEW HERE! I’m Heidi Sawyer, RCA’s newest therapist. I’m not only new here but also to Georgia! …
Differentiating Depression and Discouragement
Being able to tell if your son or daughter has depression can be a real challenge. From the outside, both …
Myths About Postpartum Depression
We’ve all heard of Postpartum Depression (PPD) and how it can show up after the typical 2-week post delivery …
Depression and Suicide Help
Suicides of famous people are often in the news and raise questions about depression and suicide. Our world is rocked …
Anxiety & Depression
If you feel like something is just “off” but you don’t know why, it may be that anxiety or depression …
How Depression is Different for a Christian.
How Depression is Different for a CHristain
Depression tends to have a say in our lives. While everyone feels reasonably sad from time to time, depression’s influence is unreasonable and often merciless. Depression wants to convince us of a different narrative, a narrative that contains distortions of truth about ourselves and the world around us. Its grasp refuses to let us go.
Some days it has more in common with a domestic abuser, a drunken and abusive spouse, than it does with feelings of mere sadness. Even when its presence is distant, its narrative has more control over us than we’d like to admit. Pretending it isn’t there, drowning its influence through our addictions of choice, or simply giving in to its power sometimes feels like our only response. Fortunately, for the Christian, there is more to the story.