Category Archive for "Counseling"

Rest is Not a Reward for Productivity

By RobinBarnes Monday, January 9, 2023 Anxiety, Counseling, Depression, Family, Feelings, Humility, Identity, Idolatry, Life in general, Maternal Soul Care, Ministry, Pastors, Soul Care, Spiritual Grit, Spiritual Growth Permalink

It’s a new year and now is the time we hear a lot about “A new year, a new you!” The holiday season in the West is focused on activities, concerts, parties and getting as much done as one can to prepare for guests or to be out of the office. All this preparation is important to us for various reasons. For some, it can be a desire to celebrate the season with others. For others, there can be a desire to impress others or be perceived a certain way by hosting these activities, leading them, or landing that final ...

Author Q&A: Equipping Biblical Counselors

By RobinBarnes Wednesday, July 20, 2022 Book Reviews, Counseling Permalink

Today’s post is an author interview with Bob Kellemen, Th.M., Ph.D. Dr. Kellemen is Academic Dean, Dean of Students, and Professor of Biblical Counseling at Faith Bible Seminary in Lafayette, Indiana. Bob is also the Founder and CEO of RPM Ministries through which he speaks, writes, and consults on biblical counseling and Christian living. Dr. Kellemen served as the founding Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. For seventeen years, Bob was the founding Chairman of and Professor in the MA in Christian Counseling and Discipleship department at Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, MD. Bob has pastored four churches and equipped biblical counselors in each church. Bob ...

Author Q&A: The Whole Life: 52 Weeks of Biblical Self-Care

By RobinBarnes Tuesday, July 27, 2021 Anxiety, Book Reviews, Christian Women, Counseling, Emotions, Maternal Soul Care, Pastoral Counseling, Pastors, Paternal Soul Care, Self-care, Soul Care, Spiritual Growth Permalink

Today's guest post is an author interview with Counselors and Co-Authors, Eliza Huie and Esther Smith about their new book, The Whole Life: 52 Weeks of Biblical Self-Care. Eliza Huie, MA, LCPC, is the Director of Counseling at McLean Bible Church in Vienna, VA and the Dean of Biblical Counseling at Metro Baltimore Seminary. She is the author of Raising Teens in a Hyper-Sexualized World and Raising Kids in a Screen-Saturated World and is the coauthor of The Whole Life. Esther Smith, MA, is a biblical counselor at Life Counseling Center Ministries and is a licensed clinical professional counselor in the state of Maryland. ...

Author Q&A: When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough: A Shooting Survivor’s Journey Into the Realities of Gun Violence

By RobinBarnes Monday, June 28, 2021 Community, Counseling, Gun Violence, Gunviolence, Trauma, Uncategorized, Violence Permalink

When Thoughts and Prayers are Not Enough Book

Today's post is an author interview with Taylor Schumann. Injured in a shooting in 2013 and left with wounds both visible and invisible, she weaves her own story into the larger conversation about gun violence in America in her newest book, When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough: A Shooting Survivor’s Journey Into the Realities of Gun Violence. She writes the truth of her own story, and the stories of the countless precious lives affected daily by the crisis of gun violence, to implore others to join her in meeting the suffering around us with whole-hearted attention. She writes to ask, simply, ...

3 Ways the Pandemic and the Transition Back to “Normal” May Affect Your Teen

By RobinBarnes Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Anxiety, Counseling, Depression, Family, Family Counseling, Grief, Kids, Parenting, Pastoral Counseling, Self harm, Soul Care, Suffering, Suicide, Teens Permalink

Michelle has been on staff with Heart Song Counseling for over 8 years. Prior to moving to the Tampa Bay area, she served as a counselor for Heart Song in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. in Speech and Communication Studies at Clemson University and her M. Div in Biblical Counseling from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In her spare time, she enjoys running, spending long days at the beach and Clemson football. It’s no secret that the pandemic has impacted our teens in a myriad of ways over the last year. Some teens found themselves back in school full throttle, others ...

Suffering, Part III: Deliverance from Suffering is Not One-Size-Fits-All

By RobinBarnes Sunday, February 28, 2021 Counseling, Depression, Grief, Pastors, Perseverance, Soul Care, Spiritual Grit, Spiritual Growth, Suffering Permalink

Dave Shive lives in Catonsville, MD, and has been married to Kathy for 52 years. They have 3 married children and 11 grandchildren. Dave writes, not as a clinician or therapist, but as a pastor. His thoughts on suffering emerge from his study of the Bible, reading widely, pastoral counseling, and personal experience. This is Part III of a multi-part series on suffering. Have you ever felt like you aren't "getting over" your suffering as fast as someone else? Have you ever felt pressured to move on in your grief by those around you and you just weren't ready yet or ...

Joy Matters

By RobinBarnes Monday, December 10, 2018 Christian Women, Counseling, Emotions, Family, Feelings, Joy, Life in general, Marriage, Mommy Stuff, Parenting, Perseverance, Relationships, Soul Care, Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized, Women, Worship Permalink

Can you remember a time when something happened that instantly stole your joy? If joy was a scale, what number are you today? 1-10? One being not even on your radar and 10—your cup runneth over with joy.Answer this question. “I’d be full of joy all the time if only ____.” Friends, do you know your joy matters to God? Do you know the Bible has a lot to say about joy? For those of you who are in Christ, do you know that Jesus was inspired and motivated by your future joy?Joy reflects Who you know and what you ...

Teens Aren’t Terrible: Enjoying Relationship with Your Kids Through the Teen Years

By RobinBarnes Sunday, August 12, 2018 Christian Women, Communication, Counseling, Discipleship, Family, Kids, Marriage, Parenting, Pastoral Counseling, Pastors, Teens Permalink

Today's guest post is written by Pamela Fahs. Pamela lives in Ellicott City, Maryland, with her husband of 22 years, Thomas, and their four children. “In another lifetime,” Pamela trained and worked as a child clinical psychotherapist specializing in sexual abuse of very young children, but since 2001 she has enjoyed being a homeschooling mom to Cameron (who is now in college), Riley, Ava, and Quinn. She enjoys serving the Lord with Thomas by directing a local homeschooling tutorial, a homeschooling theatre ministry, and Vacation Bible School at Columbia Presbyterian Church. But her favorite things include hanging out with her ...

Do I Really Need Counseling to Grieve Well?

Today's guest post is written by licensed biblical counselor, Jessica McDaniel of the Austin Stone Counseling Center in Austin, TX. Jessica has pursued specialized training in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders as well as working with couples through EFT and Gottman seminars. She also specializes in Pregnancy and Postpartum trauma, grief, and loss (including miscarriage, stillbirth, terminal diagnoses, neonatal loss, birth or NICU trauma and pregnancy after loss) and runs a free support group for parents of loss through the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Other areas of experience include marital conflict, transitions in parenting, infertility, postpartum depression or anxiety, self-worth and identity, trauma, anxiety, co-dependency, sexual ...

3 Ways Pastors Can Help Women and Families Experiencing Postpartum Depression

This post originally appeared on Careleader.org March 2018. As a pastor of a congregation with young families you may have small groups, a MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) ministry, Awana, and more. Your church may also be blessed to have a meals ministry to help individuals and families after a surgery or birth of a child. Your church is probably well equipped with support ministries for families to help disciple their children and to provide encouragement and teaching for parents. But how equipped are you to minister to families experiencing postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety? Did you know that 1 in 5 women will experience maternal ...

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Rest is Not a Reward for Productivity

Author Q&A: Equipping Biblical Counselors

Author Q&A: The Whole Life: 52 Weeks of Biblical Self-Care

Author Q&A: When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough: A Shooting Survivor’s Journey Into the Realities of Gun Violence

3 Ways the Pandemic and the Transition Back to “Normal” May Affect Your Teen

Suffering, Part III: Deliverance from Suffering is Not One-Size-Fits-All

Joy Matters

Teens Aren’t Terrible: Enjoying Relationship with Your Kids Through the Teen Years

Do I Really Need Counseling to Grieve Well?

3 Ways Pastors Can Help Women and Families Experiencing Postpartum Depression

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