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Part 6 What’s to be done? Or: How to Stay in your Most Mature Adult Self--Your Spirit-centered Self
So what can you do to counteract it when emotion-charged neuronal networks threaten to pull you into their well-worn pathway of thinking,...
Carol J Sherman
Mar 35 min read
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Part 5: A Primer on the Nervous System
For the last thirty years or so, a new understanding of the autonomic nervous system has increasingly been informing many therapists,...
Carol J Sherman
Feb 254 min read
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Part 4 The Amygdala: Your Brain's Security System
You may not have thought about it this way, but your brain screens things out constantly. We really couldn’t function well at all if it...
Carol J Sherman
Feb 256 min read
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Part 3: : Compartments, containers and Unfinished Business
As I’ve written earlier in this series, we can picture neuronal networks (memories) as lying in wait in places in our minds.  When...
Carol J Sherman
Feb 257 min read
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Parts of Self Part 2: neurons, hippocampus, explicit & implicit memory
Everything we do involves neurons firing in our brains. Every single thing. And memory researchers, starting with Donald Hebb in 1949,...
Carol J Sherman
Feb 255 min read
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Using Parts of Self in Healing Work of Therapy
Most of us are not neuroscientists and the fact that everything we experience or do involves brain neurons firing is far too complicated...
Carol J Sherman
Feb 2511 min read
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Recognizing Jesus with you as you renounce Satan's lies
I've mentioned in another blog how helpful I've found some of the resources on the Roman Catholic app called "Hallow". So many of my...
Carol J Sherman
Apr 20, 20241 min read
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Betrayal and Surrender, Shame, Redemption and a Path Forward
My Lenten discipline this year revolved around an on-line resource called "Hallow", a Roman Catholic app rich with many ways of nurturing...
Carol J Sherman
Apr 20, 20241 min read
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Henri Nouwen on the necessity of "leaving family"
I’ve been reading Henry Nouwen’s Here and Now — Living in the Spirit and what I read this morning struck me as particularly profound and...
Carol J Sherman
Aug 3, 20236 min read
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Clearing Obstacles from your Journey with God
When a child first hears someone speak of God within the Judeo-Christian tradition, it is invariably in parental images and words. We...
Carol J Sherman
Oct 24, 202213 min read
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Misguided Guilt
Four decades ago when I was writing grad school papers about conscience and moral character, I couldn’t have imagined the circumstances...
Carol J Sherman
Feb 18, 20224 min read
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Pathways to change
Somewhere during my journey to becoming a Christian counselor, I was told of an old minister who approached all counseling with: Let’s...
Carol J Sherman
Jan 7, 20219 min read
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A C. S. Lewis sermon relevant to keeping our perspective in the time of Covid 19
Here's a blog post that includes a link to the sermon itself. https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/09/c-s-lewis-advice-to-students-during-a...
Carol J Sherman
Apr 15, 20201 min read
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I'm sharing good advice from the Amen Brain Institute on fighting negative thoughts:
10 Pandemic ANTs that are Making You Anxious and Depressed amenclinics.com/blog/10-pandemic-ants-that-are-making-you-anxious-and-depresse...
Carol J Sherman
Apr 15, 20205 min read
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Good advice from the Amen Institute on calming your brain in this (or any other) scary time
Yes, You Can Feel Safe in a Scary World amenclinics.com/blog/yes-you-can-feel-safe-in-a-scary-world/ April 8, 2020 The coronavirus,...
Carol J Sherman
Apr 15, 20204 min read
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Link to "Therapy in a Nutshell" channel on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpuqYFKLkcEryEieomiAv3Q
Carol J Sherman
Apr 1, 20201 min read
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Theologian N.T. Wright: Christianity Offers No Answers about the Coronovusus. It's not Supposed to.
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F5808495%2Fcoronavirus-christianity%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C...
Carol J Sherman
Apr 1, 20201 min read
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Suggestions for coping during the quarantine
I've copied this from an un-named psychologist who posted it on Facebook. It's great advice! After having thirty-one sessions this week...
Carol J Sherman
Apr 1, 20208 min read
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