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Bipolar Blues: Regaining hope in the hopelessness

Bipolar Blues B Bipolar disorder (BD) is a very serious and under-recognized disorder that affects two-to-six percent of the population 1. Along with schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions, it is one of the few psychiatric disorders (at least its ma... Read >

Breaking from Reality: Responding to acute psychotic episodes

Felt on the verge of a nervous breakdown at some point in their life. However, the term is more popular than clinical, in that individuals who suffer from a breakdown may seek to avoid the negative stigmatization and stereotypes that are frequently associ... Read >

Migraines and the Biology of Joy: It requires a healthy biological system to fully experience the

Every day and never give it much thought until it breaks down. Though lacking it's amazing complexity, many have used the metaphor of computers to explain the brain. The brain, that mysterious organ that rests inside our skull, is like a computer loaded w... Read >

Forgiveness: Laying the Emotional Foundation

UNFORGIVENESS IS A JUMBLE of emotions. Resentment, simmering anger, hostility, hatred, bitterness, and low-level fear interlace the tapestry of unforgiveness. Unforgiving emotions are not hot (i.e., immediate) reactions to a transgression. They are ignite... Read >

Lessons Learned at Duke's Center for Spirituality Theology and Health

THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY of Religion/ Spirituality and Health was established in 1997 at Duke University Medical Center in order to conduct research to better understand the relationship between religion, spirituality, mental health, medical outcomes, and... Read >

Living with Cancer: A view from a transformed oncologist

This morning started with an extra large drain on my battery. Clarence needed even more of my time than usual. Once again he asked, œWhen am I going to start feeling better? Clarence has late-stage prostate cancer and is now in his 80s. For 12 years, nea... Read >

Mending a Broken Heart: With or Without Cardiogenesis, Living Well with Heart Disease is Spirituall

construction site. After surgeons removed the nail at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oaks, Michigan, the boy suffered a massive heart attack that destroyed over a third of its beating muscle (CNN, 2003). Normally a young healthy teen-aged heart ejects 65+ per... Read >

Healing the Hardware of the Soul: Nine Principals of the Amen Clinic

Like the hardware of a computer, the brain must function at an optimal level in order for us to run the software programs of life (learning how to function in child rearing, education, going through adolescence, training for a career, marriage, navigating... Read >

9 Things You Simply Must Do (to succeed in love and life!)

Strong sense. I would be talking with someone, either in therapy or a consulting role, or even in a business situation, and I would think, wait a minute¦ Ive met this person before. I would try to remember where, and quickly I would realize that I could ... Read >

Living Well in a Fallen World: Surviving in a world full of death and disease,consequences of sin

Utopian visionaries, of course, dream of immortality, and an entire industry has arisen that cryogenically freezes the dead in the hopes of being thawed at some unknown future day when medicine has conquered disease and aging. Utopian is the key qualifier... Read >

The Body/Mind/Spirit Connection: Is Spirituality Always a Good Thing?

This edition of Christian Counseling Today reaches deep into the Body, Mind and Spirit connection and helps us to understand the intricate connection between these three dimensions of our lives. Making sense of how these three are connected has never been... Read >

Go-Karts and Racing, Kids and Life

Famed race car drivers, Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, and Little E, have nothing on us. Zach (my eight-year-old son) and I ran down the concrete hill and got in line at the Go-Kart track in North Myrtle Beach during our annual family vacation. We were high-... Read >

Research on Parenting and Family Life

What are some of the factors that may make it more difficult to engage families in treatment? What may contribute to a family ending treatment prematurely? These are some of the questions asked by Gloria Miller of the University of Denver and Ronald Prinz... Read >

Looking Forward: Vision, His or Mine?

Of our time. I certainly have no problem with that and believe they can be very helpful in focusing an institution and its workers. I have, however, been struck recently by how often as Christians we seem to expect God to adapt Himself to our plans, our h... Read >

Odyssey: Who Do Parents Worship?

No problem in parenting is more destructive or less recognized than idolatry. Put your children's wellbeing at the center of your life, and you burden them with a responsibility their little shoulders were never designed to carry. When parent's joy finall... Read >