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Restoration Therapy: Tools, Resources and Strategies for Working with Depression

by Rhett Smith | Apr 22, 2018 | Depression, Restoration Therapy

The Depression Equation I am a big believer in the equation that insight + practice = transformation. In fact, in an earlier post on anxiety I shared the same equation, highlighting Angela Duckworth’s work on the concept of deliberate practice in her work. In...

Restoration Therapy: Reframing Depression as an Opportunity for Growth

by Rhett Smith | Apr 22, 2018 | Depression, Restoration Therapy

Reframing Depression “What if this depression you are experiencing is helping inform you about your life? What if we listen to it together, it may give us some clues about what is going on with your life. Maybe it will give us some direction about what kind of...

Restoration Therapy: Identifying the Underlying Emotions of Depression

by Rhett Smith | Apr 22, 2018 | Depression, Restoration Therapy

What Is Underneath Depression Like anxiety, one of the most difficult aspects of depression is trying to figure out what are the underlying roots of it. But without properly identifying its underlying roots it’s possible that one may see depression simply as a...

Restoration Therapy: Depression, Self-Care, and Ministry

by Rhett Smith | Apr 22, 2018 | Depression, Restoration Therapy

When serving in ministry there are many opportunities to come in to contact with people who are depressed. I say this, because churches are often what I refer to as the “gatekeepers” in mental health, therefore, those employed or volunteering in ministry...

Rhett Smith 110 — 8 Simple Principles to Help You Achieve Your Goals This Year

by Rhett Smith | Jan 17, 2018 | Intentional Living, Podcast

One of the things that happens at the beginning of every year, or at the start of a major transition, is that you see people setting goals. If you were like me you probably thought about all the goals you wanted to achieve in the New Year, and you might have even...

Rhett Smith 109: Managing and Using Your Anxiety in the New Year

by Rhett Smith | Jan 10, 2018 | Anxiety, Podcast

The new near can bring forth a lot of varying emotions from people. In my experience, a large number of people come into the new year very excited about change and all the potential possibilities that await them. It’s often a time to start anew. But there is...

Rhett Smith 108: 3 Important Relational Postures: Ask, Let Go, Hold On

by Rhett Smith | Nov 30, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

Often when I’m working with someone in session I try to think of visual and tangible ways that they can remember some of the things that we are processing together. And what I have noticed a lot about relational interactions is that there tends to be this...

Rhett Smith 106: The Importance of Adventure in Marriage — with Director of WinShape Marriage, Matt Turvey

by Rhett Smith | Nov 9, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

Over the last several years my wife and I have begun a new journey in our life. That journey has involved a couple of elements: 1) Trying to incorporate more adventure into our marriage (i.e. trips, taking on challenges, etc.); 2) Working on ways to partner together...

Rhett Smith 105: The Key to Why Some Couples Can Work Through Conflict and Problem Solve, and Why Other Couples Can’t.

by Rhett Smith | Oct 12, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

One of the reasons many couples can’t solve conflict in their relationship is because they often get stuck thinking that their argument is really about the topic at hand (i.e. money, sex, parenting, work, inlaws, etc.). And as long as they believe that, then...

Rhett Smith 104: The Importance of Discerning the Different Between Feelings and Coping Behaviors to Get to Deeper Work

by Rhett Smith | Oct 2, 2017 | Podcast, Restoration Therapy, Therapy Practice

This is a very short podcast episode, but it’s a really important one. One of the most important tasks I have in the counseling room is to help people to discern between what their feelings and coping behaviors are. In fact, I spend a lot of time helping people...

Rhett Smith 103: A Personal Story About a Good Kind of Anxiety

by Rhett Smith | Sep 21, 2017 | Anxiety, Podcast

I talk a lot about anxiety on this podcast. And sometimes anxiety can seem vague or too theoretical, unless one really has experienced. And even then, just talking about it can seem like an intellectual exercise. But today I had a personal experience that really makes...

Rhett Smith 102: The Intertwining Voices of Vocation and Anxiety

by Rhett Smith | Sep 21, 2017 | Anxiety, Podcast

I have recently been thinking a lot about the intertwining of vocation and anxiety. What I mean by that is that it seems that part of the journey towards finding vocation is that anxiety is often along for the journey. In my writing and speaking on anxiety, and in my...

Rhett Smith 99: Some Thoughts on Taking Next Steps In Your Life

by Rhett Smith | Aug 3, 2017 | Intentional Living, Podcast

Sometimes I have thoughts that I have been processing and I just want to explore out loud with others. In this case, the others is you. So in this episode I explore what it looks like to wrestle with taking the next step in your life, and how you discern what the next...

Rhett Smith 98: What Emotional Regulation Is, And Why It’s So Important

by Rhett Smith | Aug 3, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast, Restoration Therapy

A couple of weeks ago, my colleagues and I at Thriiive Practices did a lecture for the Meadow’s lecture series on emotional regulation. What is emotional regulation? It’s essentially one’s ability to control or manage their automatic, reactive...

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

by Rhett Smith | Jul 19, 2017 | Intentional Living, Podcast

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...

Rhett Smith 96: A Transformative Roadmap for Therapy — For Those Who Have Been to Counseling and Those Who Haven’t

by Rhett Smith | Jul 19, 2017 | Podcast, Restoration Therapy, Therapy Practice

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...

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

by Rhett Smith | Jul 17, 2017 | Anxiety, Podcast

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...

Rhett Smith 94: Three Postures on the Forgiveness Journey

by Rhett Smith | Jun 5, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

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...

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

by Rhett Smith | May 24, 2017 | Leadership, Podcast

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...

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

by Rhett Smith | Feb 23, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

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...
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