About this episode

This episode explores the importance of emotional health and provides strategies for managing feelings and improving relationships.

Our emotions are God-given signals designed to guide us toward greater self-reflection, self-awareness, and spiritual growth. But how do we learn to manage our feelings instead of letting them control us? In this episode, you’ll learn: How to maintain emotional health, whether you tend to suppress your emotions or feel them intensely. Practical strategies for staying emotionally regulated as a parent. How relationships contribute to our emotional well-being — for better or worse — and how to improve this. Links and Resources We Mention in This Episode: We’re grateful to the American Association of Christian Counselors for being a yearlong sponsor of Therapy & Theology . Click here to apply for their Youth Mental Health Coach program — a biblically grounded, clinically excellent training to help you support youth facing today’s most common mental health challenges. Go to Compassion.com/Lysa to join us in sponsoring a child through Compassion International today. Capstone Wellness provides residential treatment and custom therapy intensives that retrace hurt to the roots in a Christ-centered environment. Learn more at Capstonewellness.com/proverbs31 . Subscribe here to receive…

People in this episode

Host: Lysa TerKeurst

Guest: Rebecca Maxwell

Topics covered

• emotional health
• self-reflection
• self-awareness
• spiritual growth
• parenting
• relationships
• mental health

Keywords

• emotional regulation
• parenting strategies
• self-awareness
• spiritual growth
• mental health
• relationships
• Christian counseling

Sponsors

American Association of Christian Counselors

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Compassion International

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