Hope Network
If you're hurting from unexpected events we offer you hope to move forward by providing coping skills that we have gleaned from others who have shared what they learned during their difficult journey. Each episode is only fifteen minutes or less providing you optimal personal optimization for your lifestyle. Barry and Michelle who each know what its like to deal with lingering hurt share their insights. It is guidance from the trenches not the classroom.
Episodes
Having trouble sleeping? Quick to Anger? Extended periods of Depression? All of these and more could be the result of withholding forgiveness. It will disguise its presence in many forms spilling over into other relationships. In this episode, Michelle and Barry discuss Forgiveness in its many forms and how you can find freedom from the pain. Ultimately its not about them, its about you.
Michelle is interviewed about her personal trauma that took center stage in her life and learn about her encounter decades later in a hospital room with a broken neck that changed her life. She shares with us her journey beginning at age six and how it influenced her in starting the cycle of addiction that ultimately landed her incarcerated. But then . . . Kevin showed her the way to hope.
Michelle and Barry continue their conversation about how faith fits during struggles. Last episode focused on God coming along side us even when we don't feel it. This episode explores the reason we still have evil at work in our lives. Jesus even anticipated this by warning the disciples "in this world you will have trouble"....But He overcame the world. It may feel rough right now, but it can be better by faith in...
You might be asking where is God in all this? The short answer is right by your side. He is closer than you think. Life will have struggles, you are not exempt whether you are a Christian or not.
The Bible says that it rains on the just and the unjust. The difference being we are promised God's presence when difficulty comes. Most everyone is familiar with the Shepherd's Psalm 23. In part it reads, "....tho...
Every counselor or therapist will start working with one question to start, What is your goal. It doesn't have to be an ambitious goal, but a small achievable goal none the less. On this episode we offer some goal setting insights.
It is too painful to say it aloud. Too personal to speak it and yet the trauma is still there. With the help of Cindy sharing her group Journaling Therapy in an interview, Michelle and Barry take time to explore this new coping skill, journaling. Don't be too quick to judge its value until you listen.
The most powerful way to gain a sense of control over the chaos you may currently feel is to gain as much knowledge about your invader as you can. The more you understand the better you will be able to seek advice, enlist friends and speed your recovery.
Loss of control maybe the first victim of your trauma. This is no small thing. It can leave you very vulnerable to other tragedies, even your own decisions. This begins your journey back to the land of the sane. We offer insightful tips to move you out from under the difficulty and into the light.
Part Two of Three parts shows you we don't take this lightly, don't expect it to vanish overnight, but it will take hard work. Sometimes is fast, sometimes it is even fun, as we explore the road map toward wellness.
We are honest with you about control. Up until now we have provided some traditional insights, but this looks behind the curtain to reveal, we need to be honest with ourselves. Do we really have control? The illusion of control is stripped away to reveal the real world of surrendering. Stop swimming up stream and yield to the ultimate plan for your life, warts and all.
Coping requires several steps. Part of that is to share your story. Talk it out, Encourages this initial step.
Searching for the answer to Why, can hold you hostage. Stop Asking Why encourages the listener to ask What instead.
Strength is in who you surround yourself with. You will discover certain people will rise to the top while others will fall behind
When tragedy strikes the first thing you lose is control. The first response is to study or educate yourself regarding the tragedy.
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