Kristin Canan, LMSW, interviewed by Michaela Williams Michaela: As we get started, can you tell me a little bit about your background? Kristin: My name is Kristin Canan and I am a licensed social worker for the state of Alabama. I specialize in...
Growth Comes Through Adversity
What I’ve come to understand is that for you to rejoice over some of the challenges you face in life, you need to maintain a banked fire of joy. That fire is up to the task of warming your heart at all times and perfectly capable of exploding in fireworks at...
Christ-like Confrontation
What goes through your mind when you hear the word, “Confrontation?” Do you think, “Oh no… here we go again. It’s going to be a fight and it’s going to get ugly.” Nevertheless, having a good understanding of the process can result in a win-win orientation and...
When It’s Time to Leave the Nest: Moving Millennials Outward and Upward
I was sitting on my back porch the other morning, reading quietly while sipping on a hot cup of coffee. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed one of my juniper trees start to shake. All of a sudden, I saw what looked like a tiny round blob drop like a...
Lay Counseling and the Local Church
Eric Scalise, Ph.D. We are surrounded and often consumed by our fast-paced, push-button, instant-everything world. Anxiety and depression, substance abuse, marital conflicts, sexual addiction, domestic violence, child abuse, unwanted pregnancy—and the list...
Don’t Be So Jammed Up
Economic unrest. Job loss. Illness. Wars. The deaths of precious lives. Uncertainty of the future. Panic. Fear. Anxiety. Worry. These must have also been issues in Jesus’ day. Five times in Matthew chapter 6 He uses the expression, "Take no thought". (Matthew...
College Students and Mental Illness: A Student’s Perspective
We are pleased to feature a NEW blog series about college students and mental illness, written by college students. This series will explore various aspects of mental illness and the pressures faced by young adults in the college years. As a twenty-one...
Do You Categorize Emotional Abuse As Normal?
More than twenty years ago, I wrote a book on emotional abuse because I wasn’t finding much acknowledgment regarding the damage I was seeing in my clients from emotional or psychological abuse. One question I asked in that book was why emotional abuse was so common. I...
Boundaries: Intimacy is Not a Luxury
John Townsend, Ph.D. and Henry Cloud, Ph.D. Intimacy Is Not a Luxury, but a Necessity God created us to need a close and intimate relationship not only with himself but also with others. Relationships are the fuel of life. They provide us with...