If you’re like me, you consider your day to begin when you wake up in the morning. Right before you— if you’re like me— prep that coffee. Or, if you stayed up to midnight,...

Here are three reasons why you need to move more—

Reason #1 = remember that tiredness mimics depression and depression mimics tiredness.

Exercise, though, actually generates its own...

Sometimes, Jesus heals instantly. Other times, He teaches people how to be well. Sometimes, Jesus touches us and we are dramatically changed in that moment. Other times, He imparts His wisdom to us...

When our hearts are whole, relationships work. And we find purpose. And we’re emotionally stable. And we don’t self-sabotage.

I assumed self-sabotage was simply one of those bad fruits...

When there is no trust, people will not be vulnerable with each other. They will not be honest about their own weaknesses— or the others’ strengths. And, they will not exchange ideas...

A lot of people hide from each other... in friendships, at the office, in marriage... we tend to "keep something back," lest we be revealed for... well... something less that what we project that...

Freedom isn’t found in hoping no one finds out about the clutter in your past. Even if your past is fairly present.

No.

Freedom is found when it’s in the open, when there’s...

Many of our hopes and dreams stand in contrast to what’s safe. That's OK when we function from a place of health. But, when we live from a place of unhealth, we can step back rather than...

The Belief-Expectation Flywheel, as I labelled it, describes how our soul works— 

1. We experience something. It might be positive or negative. 
2. We form specific belief patterns based...

God gave us the ability to guard our hearts— not so we would hide them forever, but so that we could deal with pain and protect ourselves from harm in healthy ways (see Proverbs 4:23). Of...

I learned this from the “raw talk” during one of our Centers of Hope meetings…

What does it mean to be “triggered” by your emotions?

Here’s our unofficial...

We don’t need to be “afraid” of the “bad” emotions. The truth is that, even if our hearts can lead us astray (such that we don’t to be controlled by them), it is...