Hey, thanks for showing up. I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything

show, affectionately known as Joe, where this season is all about truth-telling, finding the good,

and showing up for our lives today no matter what has happened even yesterday. Licensed professional counselor, speaker and broadcaster, Jim Kress is on the show today,

and we have an incredible conversation you won't want to miss, why counseling gets a bad

rap, what we need more of right now, either hope or peace, and he takes us through quick counsel

of all the topics I cover in the hard good.

Trust me, this is so very worth your time because the counseling nuggets Jim brings are ones you're going to hold on to for a really long time.

I speak from personal experience.

So you and I are friends.

We are already friends.

And I know that you're a buy-the-book guy so you wouldn't say this.

But I can say it.

And I just want to say it.

You're my counselor.

I mean, so here's the thing.

I don't even know.

Again, you probably won't, you won't comment, but I will.

You're allowed to comment for me.

Whatever you say, I might throw my throat or yeah, whatever.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay.

So I'm sure when I came in for the first time I was like, now here's my deal with

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