Therapist Retreat

2 ways God’s plan in our lives (therapist)

1.) Have right counselors in mind

2.) Learn what people need from you

Talk 1 (right counselors)

You have therapists in your mind EXPLAIN

therapists hand over mind to another

handed over neatly wrapped package

very vunelarble

shaped by them

good one bad one in your mind

called to figure out which therapsit to hire!

Lets look Scripture First

1 Thessalonians 5:21 “but test everything; hold fast what is good,” test everything, hold fast what is good

Hebrews 5:14 “But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.”

Galatians 5:22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,”

James 1:5 “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.”

Solomon most commended for asking for asking for wisdom

FOR OUR PURPOSES 2 Timothy 1:7 “for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.”

Philippians 4:6–8 “Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

devil on shoulder

tempt to sin, hopefully dont need talk about that stuff

lies about what make u happy

voice of anxiety/fear, more advanced

louder in some, weaker in some

medical/psychological,

BUT IN OUR CONSCIOUS MOMENTS CAN choose to hire it as our therapist or reject it as but white noise

if louder, more fight but benefit! Louder

BUT WHY?

after all, dont we need it?

what might happen if dont rely on it?

Definition of anxiety

not just thought need to do something

bitting, nagging, (sometimes even violent) impulse based on fear what happen will not

Horse parable

all necessary is seek Christ in present moment

let tomorrow worry about itself

cast yourself into him and let him guide, not own worries

can’t predict outcomes, but can know in peace what do here now

Good Father

How would a good father guide his child who wants to do well?

nag, prod at them?

calmly direct them?

certainly hard lessons, but anything but a nice reasonable counselor is reserved for deliberate disobedience

and there only WHEN they know disobedient

would not leave a child guessing on edge.

What voice we listen to and which we ignore is how we judge God

good father or bad father?

do you listen to anxiety? What does that tell you about what you judge God as?

explain

If not God, what is it?

talk on dioabolic

explain

Method for you now and for second talk

Note:

as St. Ignatius might point out

only for those in Christ and not living in mortal sin

I don’t know if good advice if outside grace

Only have one counselor

that of Truth

not a spirit of fear/anxiety

Go to prayer now in quiet and pay attention to which voice you listen to

Talk 2 (people need from you)

What is God’s plan for our lives?

often known by relation to others

[characteristic of human identity that comes from relation]

as therapist (now maybe other vocation primary) but still part

what others need

what are the big demands?

Real Happiness

typically Client seeking this

can’t necessarily give this, but they often have an abnormal obstacle in it

bad pattern thinking, spiraling, ocd, etc

serious abuse

trauma

CBT is basically Socrates, Augustine, St. Ignatius of Loyola in many ways

often dont tell them what happiness is, but bad thinking that is hindering them getting to truth

and as we know the Truth is what sets us free as Scripture tells us

Only give what have

blind lead blind

plank

spiritual advice rather merely human

Knowing real happiness

not counterfeits

by knowing, plank plucked out, can see what a real abnormality is blockign their vision

wont be confused by whatever fads of ‘normal’ are that are really obstacles to happiness

e.g. controversial things called mistakenly keys to happiness or counterfeit happiness

self-absoption

pleasure

me me me me time

transgenderism

Only real happiness is life in God

Truth goodness Beauty

The more you REALLY KNOW more can help

must know them!

what are obstacles in your life, the planks there between you and seeing God?

when you seem just as uncertain as your clients?

those hard things are what we must dive into with all due haste so we may pluck the splinter out of their mind’s eye

What is God’s plan in life?

Much of our happiness is found socially

human nature

Like water all tied into self, stagnant, infected

poured out like trinity or Christ living water

What do others need of you

there is part of God’s plan for your life