Is ACT Compatible with Faith? Accepting What Is Without Giving Up Hope
In ACT, acceptance doesn't mean liking your pain, agreeing that it should be there, or abandoning hope that things can change. It means dropping the exhausting, often fruitless fight against the reality of what you're currently experiencing — your anxiety, your grief, your circumstance — so that you have energy left to actually move toward the life you want, instead of spending all your strength resisting what's already true in this moment.
Where IFS Meets Scripture: Befriending Your Parts Without Shame
If you've started therapy and heard the word "parts" for the first time, you might have felt a flicker of unease. Parts? Like I'm not whole? Like I'm fractured, or somehow not who God made me to be?
Reclaiming Your Story as a Christian: Therapy Isn't a Lack of Faith
God is fully capable of instantaneous healing. He is also, throughout Scripture, consistently a God who works through people, time, wisdom, and process. A good physician, a wise counselor, a faithful friend — these aren't substitutes for God's work. They are often how God's work happens.
What If You Stopped Fighting Your Feelings - and Finally Found Peace?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — ACT (said as one word, like "act") — invites you to do something that might sound strange at first: stop fighting your feelings and start building a life that matters anyway.