S6 E5 | Can We Control What We Think About?

Therapy and Theology

Proverbs 31 Ministries

Mental Health, Therapy, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Theology

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered why you may anxiously obsess over something? The truth is whatever consumes our thinking deeply affects our quality of life. But can we really control what we think about?

This episode is part of the newest season of Therapy & Theology: "You Asked ... We're Answering." Through podcast reviews, direct messages on social media, and more, Lysa TerKeurst; Licensed Professional Counselor Jim Cress; and Proverbs 31 Ministries' Director of Theological Research, Dr. Joel Muddamalle, collected your most asked questions. Now they're spending an entire season answering!

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0:00.0	This is Lisa Turkurs and you're listening to therapy and theology where we help you work through what you walk through. I'm so thankful Compassion International
0:17.5	has partnered with us again to sponsor this season of therapy and theology.
0:22.4	Compassion brings real solutions Sponsor this season of Therapy and Theology.
0:23.0	Compassion brings real solutions to the poverty that so many children in today's world are facing, all in Jesus'
0:30.4	name and through the generosity of sponsors.
0:33.8	Visit Compassion.com slash Proverbs 31,
0:37.6	or click the link in our show notes
0:39.4	to choose a child to sponsor today.
0:41.8	When you become a sponsor, compassion will send you a copy of Keep Holding
0:47.0	on. Thirty promises from God you can cling to right now on to the
0:55.0	on to the show.
0:57.0	In today's episode, we're going to answer a question about intrusive thoughts. Now before I get into the
1:07.4	content though I have to let you know our team has put together a very helpful
1:11.1	listener guide that you can download for free using the link in the show
1:14.5	notes. It's a summary of our discussion and it'll be useful for you as you unpack what we
1:19.6	discuss and maybe take your own notes and it'll just be a great reference even if you
1:24.4	have conversations with family and friends and want to refer back to something that
1:27.8	was said on the show today. Now let's dive into today's content. How do you combat intrusive thoughts?
1:35.9	All right, intrusive thoughts, how do we combat those? How do we combat intrusive thoughts?
1:41.8	That's the question that was submitted to us.
1:44.2	And I relate to this a lot.
1:47.1	Now, let's define what an intrusive thought is,
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