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The Age of Anxiety - What is Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy Anyway?

Are you Struggling in this age of anxiety? Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold standard for treating anxiety and...

Pornography/Purity - Week 2 - Hope for Change

Last week we began a 12 week series of articles on how to overcome ongoing pornography use written primarily for Christian men and women...

Connection is Key

The first malediction in the Judeo-Christian scriptures occurs in the second chapter of Genesis. In chapter 1, everything is deemed good...

Pornography/Purity - Practical Tools - Week 1- Motivation to Change

As a Christian therapist, I thought it would be helpful to offer some of the better practical tools and Christian insights I have...

Mindfulness for Sex Addiction or Dysregulated Sexual Behavior

While the clinical term "sex addiction" is a controversial one, clinical experience clearly shows that some individuals struggle with...

Understanding and Coping with Depression (1) - Not a Walk in the Park...

Depression or major depressive disorder is a remarkably common problem, with lifetime prevalence rates between 10-20%. Meaning, that 1 or...

Self-control Through Mindfulness: Cognitive Defusion

In continuing our series of articles about learning self-control skills, we address the role of our thoughts in the process. If we are...

Self-Control: Science and Art

Modern Westerners, especially younger generations, mine included, are severely lacking in a primary virtue that is necessary for...

Envisioning the Future: Self-Control via Anticipation

If self-control is more than an innate trait, but rather a set of skills and habit of character, then we should be able to grow in...

Priorities

Gordon MacDonald(1) makes a case for the correct establishment of priorities for cultivating an ordered inner spiritual life. As a...