What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?

Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.

I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.

God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.

God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.

The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is

Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's University

and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford.

And today I'm answering your questions.

And I want to apologize because I'm a bit behind on doing so.

You have been emailing me.

It's been about three months of questions that have been building up.

So today I have about eight that I'm going to try to work through.

And I want to do that in a way that provides a succinct answer, but also a substantive answer. Sometimes it can be

a bit frustrating to wait for three months. And then finally the answer comes. And it was just

very pat or just flat out common sense. So that's my goal today. And as you're thinking through these questions,

I do encourage you to write in to Greg at transform.org. I don't always get to email you back

directly, but the more succinct and direct you are with your question, the easier it is for me to

read it and then to answer it on an episode like this. So I want to start. One listener wrote in,

and she was speaking about disappointment. She asked the question, how can I grow in handling

disappointment? And apparently, according to what she said is after bad news comes in,

for about 48 hours, there is this downward spiral of fretting. It is even getting

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