Counseling Blog
Emotional & Relational Health from a Christian Perspective
For many men, coming home at the end of the day will inevitably lead to being reminded that they don’t know what they are doing and feeling like they are failing at being the dad and husband their family needs. It can feel like your family members are criticizing you and disappointed in you. This is an extremely painful experience and we often try to avoid such painful feelings at all costs, because we associate them with the loss of relationship.
Many people enter counseling feeling truly hopeless about their circumstances and the loops that they are in, and I have a lot of empathy for that. It’s a terrible feeling. But we need to know that the remedy to hopelessness is not a quick solution to our suffering or simply finding ways to make it go away. The first step is to feel the suffering, to listen to it, to make good choices within it, and to allow it to create a new character in us. God’s love is pouring into us as we do this. This is how we find hope.
