Family Love

Over the past two years I've really dug in and embraced couples counseling. Learning Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT= couples counseling based in attachment) really lit a fire within me. Not to spend too much time on this, but EFT was (and is) like the missing link in understanding meaningful relationships and why we get stuck in negative patterns.

This is has honestly been the best time of my career and also the most difficult. First of all, this is a very difficult modality to pull off "correctly". I like to say that it's humbling. Second, it inevitably makes you go through your own emotional healing simultaneously because we (as therapists) can only take our client's as deep as we ourselves are able to go.

During this time God has been really showing me my desire and gifting in helping those who are serving in ministry. If you knew my heart, you would know I very rarely deal with pride issues surrounding my gifts, talents and intelligence. I tend to run on the other side of unhealthy view of self. However, God has been really refining me in these areas.

All of this started to all come together recently. I'm in a season where God is impressing a lot of understanding on my heart. He has been showing me how truly isolating and lonely it can be for us as believers as we continue on this ever narrowing path of dying to self to serve the Lord. He has been showing me how desperately we need to lift up men and encourage them to pick up their proverbial staff and use the spiritual power and leadership that God has given them. Our time is limited and we need to be as healthy as possible to complete the missions ahead of us. I feel it is imperative to heal marriages, heal wounds that create avoidance, heal families and strengthen one another for God and for one another.

Peace!