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by Rhett Smith on July 6, 2010
Striving for a healthy, thriving marriage–and simply trying to avoid divorce are two very different goals for therapy. One is proactive and the other is reactive. I’ve noticed that the proactive group is often quicker to get professional help for their marriage than the latter group. The reactive group often finds themselves in the counseling [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 18, 2010
I feel like I do some of my best thinking and reflecting while out on a run. And while I was running yesterday a few stanzas from the Coldplay song, What If? really stuck out to me… What if you should decide That you don’t want me there by your side That you don’t want [...]
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by Rhett Smith on April 19, 2010
Unfortunately, one of the ministry lessons that has been drilled into my head over the years is that numbers matter. Specifically large numbers. I was rarely asked by my supervisors how an event went, or what stories I could tell about the ministry. It always seemed to be about metrics…things that can be measured in [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 5, 2010
I really appreciate Chad and Sarah opening up so much of their life with us this week. One of the reasons that I wanted to interview them was because I think that their story is, and can be so helpful to many other couples out there — and on so many levels. And if you [...]
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by Rhett Smith on January 21, 2010
[image by Adam Foster] “That’s not who I married!” It’s a response I often hear as I sit across from couples in therapy. At this point in the relationship one, or both of the spouses has become angered, disillusioned, sad (name the feeling/emotion) over what they feel is a loss of the person that they [...]
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by Rhett Smith on December 17, 2009
On Tuesday I posted the first part of my interview with Adam McHugh (“Introverts in the Church” — Interview with Adam S. McHugh/Part 1), whom you can find blogging and writing here. As I’ve already said about a million times already, his new book, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture [...]
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by Rhett Smith on December 11, 2009
One of the things I have been thinking about for the last six months is the idea of doing therapy on the go through mobile technology. Though I believe strongly in the benefits of in person, face to face therapy, I think technology is making available new avenues for us to explore the benefits of [...]
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by Rhett Smith on December 2, 2009
At the Cultivate Conference in October I was really impressed with John Acuff’s thoughts on satire. He basically said (loosely paraphrased) that for him satire was blowing something up so big (larger than life), so that we can sort of step back and see ourselves in it. For John, it’s blowing up and satarizing Christian [...]
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by Rhett Smith on November 30, 2009
[image by Ben Zvan] I’ve been thinking a lot about the topic of social media and the role of therapists (pastoral counselors) in the midst of it. There is a large percentage of therapists who thinks being online should be super limited, if online at all. And there is an emerging demographic of therapists who [...]
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by Rhett Smith on November 23, 2009
[image by dcfdelacruz] I made a comment on Twitter the other night that went something like this: Feel blog post coming on about how dangerous it is when pastors ignore serious mental health issues & blame it on spiritual problems And from that I received a lot of interesting feedback–mostly people saying, yes, I agree. [...]
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