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Insights on mental health, faith, and well-being from our team of counsellors.(349 articles)
2016 The Year of Active Hope!
Welcome to the first working week of 2016 where the holiday season officially ends and reality kicks in. In times such as this, we are faced with 2 types of people: the ones who hold on to 2015 out...
Christmas Day: Their Hope, Our Reality
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. John 1:10 Jesus created the world (Col 1:16), yet when He walked on it, no one recognized Him. Water blushed at His...
Love and Empowerment
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. Ephesians 5:2 To walk in love is to live life carrying...
The Power Behind Prayers
For the sake of definition and communication, I use the word prayer to refer to behaviour that is used to engage in a personal 2-way communication with God. In this way, prayers involve a...
Anger Management: Jesus' Way
Managing one’s anger and hatred is not uncommon in the battlefields of Christian Counselling. After all, anger is a basic (and probably universal?) reaction to frustration and pain; and we are...
Why is God Ignoring Me?
In Christian Counselling, people complain that they don't feel God when they are praying. They pray to God but do not 'feel' a response from Him. All of us have been through this phase, and truly it...
Trust: The Foundations of Happiness
Trust is an important human trait which is so basic that it is developed as early as our babyhood stage. The Psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, observed that we learned the value of Trust as early as the...
Stress Buster 101: Rest in Christ!
Recently, I’ve been catching myself say to my friends and clients in Christian Counselling: “Rest in Christ! Rest in His finished work!” I say it to people who are depressed, to people who are...
God won't Give us what we can't Bear
The title of the article was made famous by one of my favourite Christian rock star, Gary Valenciano, in his song entitled "Take Me out of The Dark." Although, one willn ot find the exact phrase in...
Blessed to be a Blessing
Set your affections on things above, not on things on earth. -Colossians 3:2 If you design your life to be contented by receiving from people going down to you, then you have been missing great...