Episode 115: Alison Cook - Your Emotions Are Not Your Spiritual Enemy

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Sometimes it can be easy to forget the psychological ramifications of our faith. The way our faith shapes the language we use to talk about tragedies and sadnesses in our life can be life-giving or it can really mess us up. In this episode we talk to Alison Cook, an expert on the intersection of faith and psychology, about some of the ways, as Christians, our views on our emotions can be harmful and better ways to frame our feelings. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:04.8	I'm Pete Ends.
0:05.8	And I'm Jared Byas.
0:08.6	Welcome Normal People to this episode of the Bible for Normal People.
0:11.9	And our topic today is your emotions are not your spiritual enemy.
0:17.4	And our guest is Allison Cook.
0:20.0	Yeah, Allison Cook is what I like about Allison too.
0:23.0	She is a practice.
0:24.0	She knows what she's talking about.
0:25.6	Yeah, that's true.
0:26.4	Finally, get someone on.
0:27.4	Finally.
0:28.0	She.
0:28.6	Good.
0:29.4	But she's a counselor.
0:30.4	So she's a practitioner, which is what I really like.
0:32.2	So she's dealing with mental health and emotional health on an everyday basis.
0:36.8	And she really specializes in the integration of faith and psychology,
0:40.4	which is something we haven't talked about probably enough on this podcast.
0:43.8	And really appreciate that.
0:45.0	So she has a PhD in religion and psychology from the University of Denver.
0:49.4	She lives in Boston and just is a practicing just, she's a practicing counselor.
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