January 2011
2 posts
In Defense of Psychoanalysis (Intelligent Life) →
psychotherapy:
…The irony is that in becoming more “scientific”, CBT becomes less therapeutic. Now, Freud himself liked to be thought of as a scientist (he began his career in neurology, working on the spinal ganglia), but it’s the non-scientific features that make psychoanalysis the more, not the less, powerful. I’m referring to the therapeutic relationship itself. Although like psychoanalysis...
November 2010
7 posts
“Health is not integration. Health is the ability to stand in the spaces between...”
– Philip Bromberg
“Fear is an emotion. Fear is not a sin.”
– Nancy Murphy
what's your definition of domestic violence?
Domestic violence: any action that mars the image of God in the other
What does this mean for you and how you will think about this issue?
sometimes trying to live alive and present is just hard.
Down in the Valley, The Head and the Heart
“When I started high school, I couldn’t wait to get out of Dillon. I...”
– Julie on an episode of Friday Night Lights. Hit on so much of what I’ve been feeling of late.
where i'm from ya'll
I’ve been thinking a lot about where I’m from lately. I was asked to a read a poem I had written about where I’m from at the start of the semester fo orientation. Then my current obsession with the TV show Friday Night Lights happened. I’m not from Texas, but I am from a small town in South Carolina. There is so much about Friday Night Lights that reminds me of home,...
October 2010
3 posts
“And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of...”
– William Blake, Songs of Innocence (via psychotherapy)
September 2010
1 post
July 2010
1 post
“We are asleep to our unconscious motivations, and these motivations mask our...”
– Phileena Heuertz, ‘Pilgrimage of a Soul,’ page 19. (via ifiblogged)
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
4 posts
God is sovereign - or so they say
Most of my Christian life, I have had this saying that I’ve held onto like a fish out of water holding on for air – “God is sovereign.” I used to hold onto it more fiercely in the past than now. One of my friends here makes me laugh because when I pull out the “God’s sovereign” card, she becomes slightly infuriated. Said friend and I had a discussion last night about God’s sovereignty, and...
Google and Facebook raise new issues for... →
March 2010
4 posts
Sex Addiction: Bennett's Wild Ride →
I admire this man for his courage to tell his story so honestly. I want to shoot the interviewer most of the time, especially at the end. I watched this this morning before I have to start working on a paper about how people change. Right now, I’m thinking that the only way any of us are able to change is through an unbelievable act of mercy and grace. This is a great video. Watch it if you...
“Don’t you just want to get naked with food?”
– Dan Allender in class today
“no matter how much the world shatters us to pieces, we carry inside us a vision...”
– frederick buechner, the longing for home (via hildawg30)
February 2010
7 posts
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, You must know sorrow as...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (via psychotherapy)
Man Bulldozes Home After Foreclosure →
hungryghoast:
A man in Ohio grew so angry at his bank for refusing to work with him to keep his home that he bulldozed it. He told WLWT News, “As far as what the bank is going to get, I plan on giving them back what was on this hill exactly (as) it was. I brought it out of the ground and I plan on putting it back in the ground.”
YES. I want to give this dude a high-five. (via D-Man)
impact of abuse final paper
PAPER #4
Based on class presentations and discussions, reading assignments, theological reflections, and personal inclinations, write and eight-page reflection on how you intend to care for those who have experienced abuse, violence, and/or oppression. Introspect spiritually, think critically, and write honestly. The following are possible issues to discuss:
How do I relate to people who are not...
“Nobody has ever died from feeling their feelings. Lots of people have died from...”
– Nancy Murphy
“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black...”
– Nelson Mandela’s last public words before he was jailed for 27 years
“With God all things are possible”—
that’s the beginning and...”
– Wendell Berry
“On this day 20 years ago, F.W. De Klerk announced that the ban on the ANC, PAC,...”
– my south african friend mafusi’s facebook status monday. my heart aches for south africa.
January 2010
14 posts
the shack →
for some reason, the discussion going on in the comments of this post has made me ever so thankful for my school…and also left me wondering where the role of scripture comes in in the way i am taught theology at my school. maybe i need to talk to mr. dwight friesen.
i’ve tried to engage the theological debate a bit in the comments, but fear i am in a little far over my head. but the...
“we carry the damage with us from childhood, and then we give as good as we get. ...”
– Meredith, Grey’s Anatomy
world cup and prostitution
I’ve read several articles lately, and emailed with a friend, about how South Africa wants to legalize prostitution for the 2010 World Cup. The fact that this discussion is even being had by politicians of all people makes me sick…and this is in a country with one of the highest AIDS rates in the world. People want sex so badly that they are willing to risk being infected with AIDS. I’ve been...
Jack Savoretti, you are the man…I highly recommend downloading his album, Harder than Easy.
How do you put words to a feeling that you have no words for? Can there really be such a thing as words for the unsayable?
my professor is talking and i have no idea what she is saying. but my attention span is also that of an ADD 2 year old.
“if i find my way, how much will i find?”
– In the Sun, Joseph Arthur
“To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.”
– Havelock Ellis (via psychotherapy)
“If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”
– Thomas Hardy (via psychotherapy)
“[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself...”
– Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts
December 2009
19 posts
“Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via psychotherapy)
email from o'donnell
Merry Christmas Eve, to you all, Was reflecting back on the year, classes, and time shared across the past semester and found myself thinking about Scott Peck’s opening sentence in his book, “The Road Less Traveled,” where he wrote, “Life is difficult.” And it is, full of loss, along with all the moments of pleasure, satisfactions. It is a mix. It is particularly a...
“Redemption only intensifies the reality of alienation.”
– Dan Allender
is it okay to be sad? is it okay to tell people you are sad?
