Episode 353 - The Dr. Cloud Show - Shorts - Getting a Parent to Seek Therapy
The Boundaries.me Podcast
Greg Bowler
4.7 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this highlight from the podcast, Dr. Cloud answers a frequently asked question about getting a parent to seek therapy. For people of faith, belief in the power of prayer can sometimes prevent them from seeking professional therapy. When someone says it’s all just psycho-babble, the Bible says otherwise. We need help from others, for grieving, for addiction, for depression, and so much more, and the Bible backs that up.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | This is Alby. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm the producer of the Dr. Cloud show. |
| 0:12.0 | Thanks again for joining us today. |
| 0:14.9 | On today's highlight, Dr. Cloud's going to talk about a question we get a lot. |
| 0:18.5 | This one is about getting a parent to seek therapy, specifically |
| 0:22.2 | a dad. This is a good one to share with anybody who's got a parent that's thinking to themselves, |
| 0:28.2 | hey, look, prayer works for me. All I need to do is pray rather than going to see a professional |
| 0:33.0 | therapist. Well, Dr. Cloud's got some things to say about that, as you might guess, being a licensed |
| 0:39.0 | psychologist, but also as a man of faith. |
| 0:41.8 | He's going to bring up some often misquoted Bible passages that people use to keep themselves |
| 0:47.2 | isolated from getting the help they need. |
| 0:51.5 | And a quick note, we've got a really important workshop coming up. It's called Narcissism |
| 0:56.5 | in Relationships. This one is going to cover the gamut on people whose narcissistic behavior |
| 1:03.2 | is making your life a lot harder and hurting your relationship with them. It's going to be on |
| 1:09.5 | June 28th at 5 p.m. Pacific. It's on sale right now. |
| 1:14.0 | You can find out more about it by going to Boundaries.me forward slash narcissism. That's Boundaries. |
| 1:21.1 | dot me forward slash narcissism or click the link in the description. If you can't attend live, |
| 1:25.7 | don't worry about it. We're going to have a streaming recording available within 48 hours to watch as much as you like that comes with |
| 1:32.2 | your purchase. It also comes with an outline. And without further ado, here is Dr. Cloud. |
| 1:39.6 | What's a good way to get my dad to be open to therapy? His way of dealing with things is prayer and God will help him deal with things. In other words, his dad said, well, I'm just pray about it. God will help me, right? That is such a great question for people of faith and people who are related to people of faith. |
| 2:05.7 | Some of you are not not people of faith and this really sounds crazy to you, right? |
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