Purpose in Pain
The reactionary response that pain naturally and quite adamantly elicits is one designed to eradicate the pain. Our knee-jerk reaction when in pain is to determine methodologies, or strategies, or obtain resources designed to eliminate the pain as cleanly and as quickly as possible. Any other notion is typically never even considered in light of … [Read more...]
Consequences – Trying to Side-Step the Inevitable
Issac Newton said, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If only that weren’t so. Too many times we formulate plans that we simply love. What we don’t necessarily love are the consequences that come along with those plans. Sometimes those consequences can be real spoilers, so we do everything we can do to avoid them, deny … [Read more...]
Depression
Positive Thinking or Just Plain Truth
Discouragement – Being Dense to Discouragement
Sometimes life is simply about fighting the battle. We succumb not to the battle, but to the sense that life is nothing but a battle. Too often we choose to contemplate the battle, analyze the battle, and become engrossed in all the many and varied aspects of the battle. And we become lost in this incessant process of contemplation when maybe we … [Read more...]
Playing with the Dark – Careless in the Shadows
We find the dark rather compelling. It’s one of those terribly tantalizing things that we like to reach out and touch just long enough to see what it’s like. Then whether its guilt, or a conscience pricked, or fear over what we just walked into, we jump back and ponder what we’ve just done. And too often the pondering teases us just enough to … [Read more...]
Discouragement – Courage, Determination and Persistence
We need not define discouragement. We’ve all experienced it sufficiently to understand it in all of its many variant and rather dark forms. Discouragement has come our way, and it will come our way again. Sometimes it’s rather diminutive, passive and rather soft. At other times it’s monstrous and entirely debilitating. In whatever way it comes, it … [Read more...]
Perfection – The Elusive Search
It is interesting that the pursuit of perfection, which so many of us are embroiled in, is in reality an impossible goal. And it is odd that we would put so much thought and energy into a goal that in reality we will never achieve. It would follow then that if we are intent upon such an impossible goal, something of great need must be driving … [Read more...]
Fight or Flee – Our Contradictory Nature in Crisis
We fight or we flee. Sometimes it’s one, and sometimes it’s the other. At times we can explain the choice that we made, and at other times we have no idea at all why we made whatever choice we made. We can stand tall and fight and be entirely uncertain why we’re doing that at all. Or we can be running away in a blind panic and not be certain why … [Read more...]
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Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC