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Insights on mental health, faith, and well-being from our team of counsellors.(347 articles)
Why won’t God speak to me?
As a rule in Christian Counselling, I always remind people that God speaks to us all the time, we just don't like what He says. Most of the time, we just want someone to agree with us, to say to us...
Factitious Disorders: Too Comfortable for Change
Transforming from being sick to being well is a painful and challenging process. That's because being well pertains to going through tremendous changes in one's life; both external changes and...
When to Quit?
Quitters never win they say. It is not something we were raised to do. This virtue of determination, of not quitting, is proper when it comes to our studies, for that high school student who refuses...
McLobsters and McPizzas
Does McDonald’s serve Lobsters or Pizzas? I am posing these questions to people who ask about the seeming inconsistencies found in The Bible. I placed emphasis on the word “SEEMING” to point out that...
On Buddhist Impermanence and Christian Counselling
I had the privilege of meeting a Buddhist practitioner who shared with me the concept of Impermanence. Impermanence is one of the core concepts of Buddhism that teaches us that nothing in the...
Boldness in Christ
What if she doesn’t like me? Asks a young man before approaching his crush. What if the market forces change? Asks a middle aged auntie thinking of a career change. What if I make the wrong decision?...
Freedom from Perfectionism
Perfectionism doesn’t propel anyone to success, getting the job done does. We have to see that these 2 do not go hand in hand. Perfectionism drowns the person in needless worries and delays them from...
The Hewn Stone
Most of man's problems arise from discarding God's ways and replacing it with their own. God’s ways are always made out of love and wisdom; hence, it is the best decision of humanity to simply obey...
Psycho-Spirituality and Christian Counselling
I want to begin by setting the definition that “spirituality”, in the current context of mental health or psycho-spirituality, simply means our relationship to God. So, when we say I have a “healthy...
2017 The Year of Change
Welcome to 2017 and the year of the rooster! My last log was (shamefully) from a few months ago, and since we still have the new year spirit in our consciousness, I would like to start off with a...