For some, reflecting on the past seems like a waste of time. After all, that was then, this is now. The present is what matters and what can be done now. What is done is done, time to move on. Well, you may be done with the past but what if the past is not done with you? Often the choices we make, ...
A New Year, A New Generation: Healing Family of Origin Wounds
We at SureHope Counseling & Training Center want to wish you a very Happy New Year! As we begin 2025, many take a moment to reflect on the previous years and what is to come. As we go forward, some may make goals, or resolutions, to lose weight, finish a degree, read more, find that new job, ...
Merry Christmas: O Holy Night, A Lament
We at SureHope Counseling & Training Center want to wish you and your family ma very Merry Christmas! For the year of 2024, SureHope Counseling & Training Center has focused on the process of lamenting. We have explored how lamenting is a spiritual practice that leads to mental, ...
Lamenting Holidays Past
I don’t know anyone who is free from pain as we look forward to Christmas and the New Year. Many people I care for are shouldering significant burdens, and the holiday season intensifies their heartache. Why mention this as we deck the halls and make our days merry? We *could* use excessive holiday ...
Ashes to Beauty: Lament to Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a perspective. Not a set of circumstances. This year at SureHope we have focused on the spiritual and psychological benefits of lamenting. The amazing aspect about lamenting is when we practice lamenting, we are never far from expressing thanksgiving. A big piece of lamenting ...
Lament: A Powerful Prayer Blueprint That Brings Comfort in Times of Trouble
In times of trouble, we seek out safety and security. There is safety in being heard; we feel a bit more grounded and understood when someone listens to our pain. First let me say, it would be fair to maintain that most individuals have not been taught effective skills to process emotional pain. ...
Change the Script: Transforming Your Thought Life Through Lament
Do you ever give much thought to the voice inside your head? I’m talking about the script that so often seems to run on auto pilot and provides an endless flow of messages in which we may not even be aware. This dialogue we unwittingly have with ourselves can be so constant and repetitive that we ...
Is It Grumbling or Lamenting?
“God is our refuge and strength, An ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way And the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, Though its waters roar and foam And the mountains quake with their surging.” Psalm 46:1-3 Psalm 46 opens with ...
Let the Little Children Come: Childhood Lament
Have you ever been taken aback by a child’s brutal honesty? Perhaps a comment about your wrinkles or the way you smell, or even a wiser observation about your mood or way of being. I think of this often as I remember all of the play therapy clients that I have worked with, but also in observing my ...
Blessed are Those Who Lament
The upside-down Kingdom of Jesus is one that leaves many of us scratching our heads in confusion. Jesus has a lot to say about how to live in the Kingdom of God and what a life of apprenticing to Him produces within the inner man and woman despite life’s circumstances. The Sermon on the Mount ...
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