RESOURCES, ENCOURAGEMENT AND MORE
Welcome to the Share the Struggle Blog
Each week we bring you resources, insights, and stories that illuminate the path to mental and spiritual flourishing, guiding you on your journey towards wholeness and healing.
Archive of Posts
- Accountability 2
- Addiction 1
- Anxiety 27
- Bible 15
- Bible verses 1
- Christ 1
- Christian Coaching 9
- Church 1
- Coaching 3
- Comfort 1
- Community 1
- Confusion 1
- Course: Freedom From Anxiety 19
- Course: Freedom From Pornography 24
- Course: Loss Of A Loved One 13
- Course: More Than Your Past - Shedding Shame and Guilt 10
- Course: Moving Through Trauma 21
- Depression 5
- Fear 4
- Forgiveness 2
- God 1
- Grief 17
- Growth 2
- Helping Helpers 23
- Identity 3
- Isolation 1
- Jesus Christ 1
- King David 1
- Leader Training 23
- Leadership 1
- Life 1
- Listening 1
- Love 8
- Loving Difficult People 2
- Mental Health 3
- Mental Health Disorder 1
- Mental Health Programs 1
- Mental Health Struggle 1
- Overcoming Fear 1
- Patience 3
- Paul 1
- Pornography 25
- Relationship 6
- Scripture 4
- Shame 12
- Stress 5
- Therapy 1
- Trauma 29
- Where is God in my Struggle? 1
- Work 5
Identifying Grief
Learn from Pastor Benji Horning about identifying what grief looks like to each person and how to meet their unique needs…
Engaging Your Story
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…
A Prayer for Depression and Practical Steps to Overcome Depression
Depression is a formidable challenge that Satan uses to disrupt your relationship with God and steal your joy and peace. However, the Bible provides numerous assurances of God's love, presence, and power to heal even in the deepest and darkest of depressions.
What Does a Christian Life Coach Do?
A Christian life coach is a professional who incorporates biblical principles and teachings into the coaching process to help individuals achieve personal and spiritual growth.
Faith-Based Mental Health Programs
Faith-based mental health programs are designed to help individuals of various religious and spiritual backgrounds cope with mental health problems.
What Does the Bible Say About Mental Health?
Our mental health is intertwined with spiritual health. How we come to understand ourselves, struggle and work through setbacks of the flesh, and come to understand who we are in Christ is how we flourish. So, what does the Bible say about mental health?
The Helping Framework: Support
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…
The Helping Framework: Share
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…
The Helping Framework: Explore
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…