A Day of Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy – August 3

The Waco Partnership for Psychological and Spiritual Care and Hope for BPD are pleased to bring Dr. Shari Manning to Waco for a day of training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy on August 3, 2012. Dr. Manning will also be available for informal conversation and book signing on Thursday evening, August 2.  The general public is invited, and [...]

What if?

When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” Aaron answered them, “Take off [...]

The Most Effective Minute of Therapy I Ever Received

circa 1997 I was sitting in my psychiatrist’s office in the aftermath of losing my job, head in hands, and moaning, “What am I going to do?  WHAT am I going to do?  I’ve been humiliated.  I’m a laughingstock.  Everyone will know I messed up.  All my work… down the drain.  What are people going [...]

Free Seminar: Anxiety, Depression, and the Spiritual Journey

Hello Friends, On Thursday evening, June 18, the Waco Partnership for Psychological and Spiritual Care will be hosting my seminar titled “Anxiety, Depression, and the Spiritual Journey.” Information and the RSVP link can be found HERE. WPPSC is dedicated to fostering conversation about the integration of psychology and spirituality, and to raising funds to subsidize [...]

Trails, cabins, snakes, and faith

Wednesday morning, May 20, 2009 I was honored by an invitation to provide the opening “devotion” for the Baylor Admissions Department retreat.  Here’s what I offered… Imagine you are hiking along one of the most amazing trails in the world, the Appalachian Trail. (see note at bottom).  Imagine that you are somewhere along this 2000 [...]

We are knee deep in a river, searching for water

(If you’d like to get an email notification of updates to this blog, please subscribe using the link at top of the column on the right.) We are knee deep in a river, searching for water.  We are part of an invisible river, but we are so distracted by outer things and what we imagine [...]

Leave Your Spouse While You’re still in Love – Part 3

DO YOU KINDLE? If so, would you please part with 99 cents and download my first Kindle “mini-book”experiment? It’s titled Blessing, Grace, and Incarnation: The Foundations of the Spiritual Marriage and Family.  I’m looking for additional ways to fund the The Waco Foundation for Mental Health Care, and so your feedback on this first project [...]

Leave Your Spouse While You’re still in Love – Part 2

Thank you for your comments and questions on my last entry (some left on the blog, some emailed to me).  Many of you said that you could relate to my experience, and the question most raised was something like, “But how can we actually move back toward Love?” The process is, in my opinion, theoretically [...]

Is it Really All About Anxiety?

Three different people, all of whom I respect, have recently said something to me like, “All you ever talk about is anxiety.” To which I’ve responded with something like, “Well, of course. Everything about mental health and spirituality is ultimately about anxiety, so what else would I talk about?” I don’t want to be reductionistic, [...]

Ethics and Anxiety

I’ve been asked to teach an ethics seminar in the Spring to our local chapter of the Texas Counseling Association. The subject of ethics generally annoys me. I realize this could be due to my own lack of ethics, but I actually think its more because I believe that the whole subject of ethics within [...]