First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/are-you-a-good-complainer/ At first glance complaining appears to be nothing but negative. If someone were to put a glass of water in front of you filled up halfway, what would you see? Would you see a glass half…
How Lamenting Leads to Spiritual and Mental Growth
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/how-lamenting-leads-to-spiritual-and-mental-growth/ When practicing the skill of lamenting it leads to spiritual and mental growth. You may be asking how is this so? To engage in lamenting, you eventually start to answer certain questions that tell you where…
Teaching Teens to Lament
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/teaching-teens-to-lament/ Our initial reaction to teens needing to learn how to lament may be incredulity. What do teenagers need to lament about? What significant loss could they be experiencing that would benefit from deep processing and require…
Lament: Bringing Our Complaints to God
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=5527&action=edit&classic-editor “Life begins with tears; it’s simply part of what it means to be human—to cry is human” (Vroegop, 2019, p. 25). Life is indeed messy. It is part of the human condition to experience pain,…
Why Grieve Childhood Trauma?
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/why-grieve-childhood-trauma/ While not everyone can boast of having an idyllic childhood, neither do most people prefer to point out their parents’ flaws. Many cultures (including Christians) might consider remembrance of negative childhood events as disloyal or dishonoring…