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In Step 6 we discussed the difference between running from sinful anger and running to the life God desires for us. This final chapter is de...
Are you enjoying where you are? Even if you are not “there yet,” can you identify aspects of this part of your journey that make it signific...
We are now squarely in the present tense. Admitting, acknowledging, understanding, repenting, and confessing were all focused on things we h...
As we get to the most “practical” part of the study, hopefully you are at a better place spiritually, relationally, emotionally, and in term...
If we became active in Step 4, then we are going public in Step 5. Confession that is less public than the sin which prompted its necessity...
This material is not another trip around the “try harder” merry-go-round! It is at Step 4 that you begin to experience the difference. Hopef...
It is unfortunate that this step will likely not be as satisfying as we would like. We often fall into the trap of thinking that if we under...
It is hard to admit how “off” we get when we are angry. One reason is because we often get angry for right reasons or legitimate causes. We...
Do you hear yourself in any of these statements? I’m not angry! I’m just frustrated! But if you don’t stop asking “what’s wrong” I may get a...
At the end of chapter 8 we began to discuss the question, “What am I living for?” That is an essential question in our grief journey. Unless...
New and normal are words that do not belong together. But that is precisely what step eight is all about, establishing a new normal. For mos...
Goals and grief can be hard concepts to mesh. We wish they got along better. We want to be able to say, “I have Saturday open so I plan to g...
There are two competing narratives for our grief: God’s and Satan’s. Every experience surrenders to an interpretation. Our interpretation of...
No matter how “clean” our interpretations or how pure our story, the sadness of grief will remain. It will hurt because someone precious is...
At several points in the study you have probably begun to question God, doubt Him, be angry at Him, or wonder if what you think about Him re...
The most common way to “understand” grief is to think of it in terms of stages (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) devel...
Too often we hear the word “denial” and we think it means simply the willful resistance to acknowledging an obvious fact. When you’re in the...
Even though it is only the beginning of this study, thank you for getting this far. It is a testimony to your strength and courage that in t...
If the law of God can be summarized in a positive command, then we must end this study talking about how to “run to” God rather than merely...
Are you enjoying where you are? Even if you are not “there yet,” can you identify aspects of this part of your journey that make it signific...
As you reach this chapter the momentum of change has probably already fluctuated several times. Getting started was hard. It felt like an up...
Depression-anxiety crowds out peace and hope in our lives. Conversely, peace and hope can crowd out depression-anxiety from our lives. The m...
It is easier to see why we need to confess sins like anger or lust to others; these are sins that are more clearly against another person. B...
Let’s play with the double entendre (e.g., word or phrase with two meanings) “emotional repentance” for a moment. Many readers may be thinki...
This is the chapter where we trace the smoke back to its fire. Hopefully the steps you’ve taken to understand your experience of depression-...
Let’s be honest, acknowledging the breadth and impact of your depressive-anxious struggle is not going to make it better at first. If our on...
Human beings are unique from all other creatures in our ability to experience anxiety-depression at times that do not immediately demand the...
It would be easy to want this study, like this season of your life, to just be over. But this study, like your life, has at least one more c...
New and normal are words that do not belong together. But that is precisely what step eight is all about, establishing a new normal. If we w...
One of the biggest challenges in identifying goals for combatting the effects of suffering is to be active without accepting false guilt. It...
Chapter four may have left you without a story. You looked at the events and impact of your depression-anxiety in chapters two and three, th...
What are we supposed to do with bad news? Step four reveals a large amount of “bad news” – narratives we place upon our experience of depres...
This may be the darkest step in your journey. It will be where your fears find words and they move from being a haunting echo in your emotio...
After acknowledging the history and realness of your depressive-anxious experience, you need to understand the impact of these experiences o...
“It’s not that big of a deal. I’ll just press through this. What is a little sadness or anxiety? I can still do my job, pass my tests, take...
What is the only thing more overwhelming than being asked to lift an unbearable load? Being asked to move while carrying an unbearable load....
It might be easy to want this study, like this season of your life, to just be over. But this study, like your life, has at least one more c...
New and normal are words that do not belong together. But that is precisely what step eight is all about, establishing a new normal. In step...
One of the biggest challenges in identifying goals for combatting the effects of suffering is to be active without accepting false guilt. It...
When you experienced your trauma, life stopped, at least parts of your life stopped, yet the rest of life has continued in a way that can be...
What are you supposed to do with the heaviness of step four? Those narratives are very “sticky” or wouldn’t be able to create the level of d...
This is not the step in which you will answer, “Why did this happen to me?” But that is the question that drives us to make sense out of the...
Scars and casts, as painful as they are, come with advantages; they can be seen, they elicit sympathy, and they make our limitations underst...
There is nothing “fun” or enjoyable about this step. However, it is a good and needed part of the process. But do not allow these first two...
Thank you for the courage represented in your willingness to engage this material. After a trauma any act of recovery, which involves memory...