Want to work with others on their own story? Cathy Loerzel, co-founder at the Allender Center, shares that we can only take someone as far as we’ve gone in our story. If we haven’t done the work to understand our grief, our shame, our fears, how can we help another? Learn how…

After listening, exploring underlying issues, and sharing in the struggle, the final word in our model is support. This step is crucial for guiding someone toward health and well-being, much like Jesus did when he encountered broken people, offering them both grace and direction…

In our model, the third word is share, which has two significant meanings. Firstly, we share in the struggle of the person we're talking to by meeting them in that space emotionally and physically, being present with them. Secondly, there are moments when it’s appropriate to share a part of our own story, offering insights or experiences that might be relevant to what they're going through…

We often hear the content of what someone is saying, but there's an animating energy, an emotion that motivates that content. How do we actually get to that? It might sound abstract, but there are practical skills we can use in real-time conversations to uncover those deeper layers…

If you're here, it's because you clearly care about helping people. As we dive into a framework for how to really effectively do that, we kind of got to go back to the basics and look at what the scriptures actually say…

I think a lot of us have the desire to perfect our responses to things - to be able to do things in such a way that guarantees outcomes. That's really not within our control. The only thing that's within our control is how we go about it…

What's at the root of our anxiety?…How do we know what to make of these scripts that run through the back of our minds, these echoes through the caverns of who we are?…

Anxiety is actually an incredible emotion, an absolute gift from God. It is a warning signal telling us to pay attention. So, I want you to flip the whole concept of anxiety and look at it in this way, that it is a useful messenger telling us a message…

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We want you to know that we're here on this journey with you. Our stories might run parallel to yours; they might have differences, they might have contrasts. But know that you don't have to be alone in trying to walk through this journey…