RHETT SMITH

 

• • Intentional Living,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 97: Four Game Changing Books -- Simply Your Life, Regulate Your Emotions, Practice Deliberately to Get Into the Flow, Work Deeply, and Perform for a Bigger Purpose

• on July 19, 2017
• I read a lot of books, but I don't consider myself the best book reviewer. Even though I read with pen in hand and underline and take notes throughout my books, I'm not great at writing about the details. But what sticks out to me are those big ideas in a book...the ones that you can't stop thinking about. The ones that cause paradigm shifts within. Those I obsessively think about, and figure out [...]

 

• • Podcast,
  • Therapy Practice

• Rhett Smith 96: A Transformative Roadmap for Therapy -- For Those Who Have Been to Counseling and Those Who Haven't

• on July 19, 2017
• One of the things that I hear as a counselor a lot, typically near the end of an intake session with a client, is the question, "How is this going to look?" The question can be asked in a variety of ways, but what is implicit is usually either some form of anxiety over the next steps, or just a general curiosity about what people are signing up for when they enter into counseling. Counseling [...]

 

• • Anxiety,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 95: Pepperdine Bible Lectures -- Reframing Anxiety as God at Work in Our Lives

• on July 17, 2017
• This past May I had the opportunity to speak at Pepperdine University for the annual Bible Lecture's series. It's primarily a gathering of a combo of lay and professional ministry leaders, and as this event I was able to talk to them about one of my favorite topics...anxiety. Anxiety is a huge issue both in and out of the church, and in fact, Walter Brueggemann has stated that it's the primary [...]

 

• • Marriage,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 94: Three Postures on the Forgiveness Journey

• on June 5, 2017
• Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to share with the ReEngage Ministry at Hope Fellowship the topic of forgiveness. It's such an important topic not only in all of our lives, but especially in the context of marriage where one's ability to forgive becomes an essential practice. In fact, forgiveness is the only topic that ReEngage covers on two different weeks. In going into this talk I wa[...]

 

• • Leadership,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 93: Understanding and Taking Care of You: Work, Relationships, and Self-Care

• on May 24, 2017
• A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak to a group of employees for Marriott Hotels here in the local Dallas area. It was a great opportunity to help others understand how to have healthy relationships in and out of the work place by beginning to take care of themselves. So in this podcast episode I share what I shared with them: helping them understand how they are part of a larger[...]

 

• • Faith,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 92: What Are You Holding Onto, That Is Holding You Back?

• on April 17, 2017
• I have shared in previous episodes that the journey through Lent has been one of the most helpful things I have done for my faith. And as we finished Lent this last week, culminating in Easter yesterday, I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on the next steps. As we work on embracing and experiencing the resurrected and new life that Easter represents, what are our next steps? One of the[...]

 

• • Faith,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 91: Creating Space for Silence During Lent

• on April 4, 2017
• We live in a culture that continually inundates us with noise. That noise comes in all kinds of forms. Advertising, entertainment, technology, etc. Sometimes we are passive observers of it as we have little control over what billboards are placed in front of us as we drive down the road. Other times we are active consumers, spending inordinate amount of times on our phones playing games and engagi[...]

 

• • Faith,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 89: Lent, Trauma, and Remembering

• on March 2, 2017
• I have been thinking a lot about the Lent season, which is appropriate since Ash Wednesday was yesterday. Here is what I posted on Facebook last night: Over the next 40+ days I am going to take some time to reflect on some of the things I am exploring around Lent, trauma and remembering. I hope you will join me on this journey. Link to Episode 89 Resources Mentioned in this Episode [...]

 

• • Marriage,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 88: Fostering the Varied Types of Intimacy in Relationships

• on February 23, 2017
• This last weekend I led a class on fostering intimacy in marriage to a group of premarital couples. I love doing this work, but intimacy can be a complicated issue. When we think of intimacy in our culture we often think of sex, or at least physical intimacy to say the least. But the reality is there are varying kinds of intimacy that are important that a couple take an intentional stance on foste[...]

 

• • Intentional Living,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 87: Creating Space for Grief After a Death

• on February 15, 2017
• I have been wanting to talk on the topic of grief and loss for quite a while. I was going to wait to do an episode with my father since that has been a big part of his professional life as a pastor and hospice chaplain. But in light of some recent events in our local community the last week, I thought I would go ahead and post some thoughts on this topic. This is a topic near to my heart as I h[...]

 

• • Marriage,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 86: Navigating the Chaotic Path to Affair Recovery

• on February 8, 2017
• If I had to take a guess, I would guess that at least 50-60% of every couple that I work with is in my office because of an affair. Affairs come in varied forms from the physical to the emotional and everything in between. And affairs don't discriminate based on gender, race, or age. In fact, it's often the person or couple that you expect least likely to have to deal with an affair, is the couple[...]

 

• • Intentional Living,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 85: Insight + Practice = Transformational Flow

• on February 1, 2017
• One of the things that I have come to believe through my work with clients, and through my own personal work, is that insight alone is usually not enough to create change. That insight has to be coupled with practice, and lots of it to create the change, and ultimately the transformation we desire. We could also say the same if we flipped it in reverse. Practice alone, without any insight, will al[...]