TIL 566: The History of Therapeutic Grounding (feat. Omri Miles)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
1.) What are the origins of therapuetic grounding?
2.) What is the goal?
3.) How are biblical counselors trying to leverage this concept of therapeutic grounding with embodied practices?
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| 0:00.0 | The History of Therapeutic grounding on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:15.3 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:20.9 | This week on the podcast, I'm thrilled to have with me, Omri Miles. |
| 0:24.0 | He serves as pastor of Grace Bible Church in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 0:27.8 | He holds degrees from the Expositor's Seminary and the Master's University, |
| 0:31.6 | as well as certification with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. |
| 0:34.7 | He spent more than 15 years in Tempe, Arizona, training for ministry |
| 0:38.4 | until he was sent to plant a church in New Orleans East, where he now lives with his wife, |
| 0:43.3 | Emily, and their five children. Amarrem, I'm so grateful that you're here with me this week, |
| 0:48.2 | and this month in particular, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, to talk about this |
| 0:53.0 | very important issue of the history |
| 0:55.3 | of therapeutic grounding. Thanks, brother, for being with me. Thanks. Great to be here. |
| 1:00.2 | Now, some people may or may not know about the concept of grounding, particularly therapeutic |
| 1:04.4 | grounding. We're going to dive in a little bit to the history. So you're going to give some |
| 1:07.6 | background here. I'm just curious as to what piqued your interest in this particular topic. We certainly hear about the concept of grounding, therapeutic grounding. It's been a part of the discussion relative to biblical counseling in relation to clinically informed concepts. So I'm just curious what p your interest here. So ironically enough at the |
| 1:30.5 | 2024 colloquium is really when I started looking into this because the issue of grounding |
| 1:38.2 | came up when we were in Kansas City. One of the presenters mentioned grounding, |
| 1:43.6 | encouraged grounding that it could be |
| 1:46.8 | faithfully practiced. And as I heard and read the description of what grounding was, I happened |
| 1:54.3 | to be preaching through Psalm 119 at the time. And the Lamid stanza, the 12th stanza in Psalm 119, that actually talks about creation |
| 2:08.1 | just seemed to address that very issue. And so in dialogue at the colloquium, that's when I |
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