Cognitive Health for Senior Clients: Evidence-based Lifestyle and Non-pharmacological Interventions
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Coaching, Brain Health, and Post-traumatic Growth
Coaching, Brain Health, and Post-traumatic Growth Most of us are familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but far fewer understand post-traumatic growth (PTG)—the “positive change that occurs as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life...
Uniting Faith and Neuroscience: Unleashing Your Patient’s Decision-making Superpower
Uniting Faith and Neuroscience: Unleashing Your Patient’s Decision-making Superpower Introduction Decision-making is the hidden muscle behind not just psychological health and flourishing, but also spiritual sanctification and transformation. Clinicians who repeatedly...
The Science of Spirituality and Our National Mental Health Crisis
The Science of Spirituality and Our National Mental Health Crisis Faith needs no outward scientific proof. We know the truth in our hearts. Still, I have observed that personal insights and even mainstream institutional transformations emerge from holding up a...
An Introduction to Brainspotting for Counselors
An Introduction to Brainspotting for Counselors The human brain and body have been designed with such intricate intention that it would be impossible to understand the fullness of being fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together in a mother’s womb (Psalm...
The Developing Brain: Understanding Cognitive and Emotional Growth Across the Lifespan
The Developing Brain: Understanding Cognitive and Emotional Growth Across the Lifespan The Prenatal Prelude: God’s Handiwork in Motion When the psalmist wrote, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13, NIV), he spoke a...
Diagnosing and Treating Moral Injury in Christian Counseling
Diagnosing and Treating Moral Injury in Christian Counseling Introduction Over the past decade, moral injury (MI) has increasingly emerged as a critical construct bridging psychology, theology, and pastoral care. Initially defined in military contexts, MI refers to...
Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Understanding the Intersection Between Physical and Emotional Pain… and How to Heal Both
Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Understanding the Intersection Between Physical and Emotional Pain… and How to Heal Both The Hidden Intersection of Emotional and Physical Pain I met Sam just hours after he had tried to take his own life. Once a decorated police...