Empathetic counseling is not just Freudian but it’s dangerous and narrower than sympathetic counseling. Sympathy sees the problem from a macro (wide angle) and micro view (pinpoint), not just the narrow scope of the victim’s perspective. Sympathy sees all the elements of the issue.
To suggest the sympathetic person who refuses to drown with you or permit you to “manipulate them” into your deadly waters has no compassion is short-sighted, minimally, and fatal to the victim in its worst case. https://lifeovercoffee.com/the-destructive-force-of-empathy-and-why-you-need-to-know/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
