Do You Need Counseling?: Episode 781
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
How therapy can improve your life, plus Debbie Laaser on trauma recovery, and hope for a strained sibling relationship.
Featured musical artist: About a Mile
Roundtable: When to Look for a Counselor
Counseling isn’t just for people in crisis. All of us need a personal growth tune-up from time to time, and occasionally the best wisdom might come from a good Christian counselor. How can you know when it might be a good season to get help? And what should you look for in finding a counselor who’s a good fit? Our panel of three experienced counselors will share tips for making counseling work for you.
Culture: Healing From Trauma
Whether it’s a breakup, losing a loved one, or feeling the sting of betrayal, your heart can take years to recover from a traumatic season or experience. Professional counselor Debbie Laaser has walked through several heart-wrenching events but learned how instead of staying stuck, God wanted to transform her through them. She’ll tell some of her story and give hope for healing beyond the darkness.
From Trauma to Transformation: A Path to Healing and Growth
Inbox: Sibling Bullying
Diagnosed with schizophrenia, she’s experienced a spectrum of relational challenges, including bullying. Even her brother is making light of her condition, and it’s put a strain on their relationship. Is it time for a difficult conversation? Counselor Joannie DeBrito weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
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| 1:00.2 | Boundless Show. |
| 1:13.2 | Lisa Anderson here with you with my customary intro to what is coming up later. For our inbox, |
| 1:19.9 | we have a woman who has a very strained relationship with her brother, and now she is not sure how to handle it moving forward, feeling like she's addressed it, |
| 1:28.7 | but it didn't go well. |
| 1:30.2 | So one of our counselors is going to offer some hope for that situation. |
| 1:34.9 | And then for our culture segment, Debbie Laser joins to share about recovering from |
| 1:39.4 | trauma and pain, specifically around the betrayal of her husband and his sexual addiction, and then |
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