“A thought can sometimes be redirected. But when you’ve been trying to redirect it for a week, a month, a year, and it’s not really moving, that’s probably a signal that there’s more to it, and there’s probably something deeper that you’ve got to look at.”
“The end goal is peace, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control, and those things come about when we’re dependent upon God.”
“One thing the church has done in the past that breaks my heart a little is I think it’s demonized emotions. And I know why.”
“When you study emotions theologically, it blew my mind. Emotions are not neutral. Emotions are not bad. Emotions are good.”
“You see even Christ facing the cross experiencing some fear.”
“Scientifically, the only way the brain heals from trauma—it does not heal by fixing something. It does not heal by pulling someone out of a difficult situation and putting them in a good one. It does not heal with money or resources. It heals when you go back to that difficult thing and you aren’t alone and someone is with you in it and you feel sad together.”
“Emotions serve the greatest purpose in connecting someone to God and connecting someone to each other.”
“Because of the church, we have demonized emotions and we’ve suppressed them. We’re missing out, I think, on a deeper connection with God and a deeper connection with each other.”
“God is uniquely close in our emotional lives that he wants to draw near to us in our emotional lives.”
“Those that are pastors should have someone safe that they are able to talk to.”
“We’ve got to approach and attack our mental health…It’s got to be spiritual. It’s got to be physical. It’s got to be mental. It’s got to be relational…we’re in a very, very dark time.”
“What I found on the other side of that self-work was peace. And I got to show up better for the people that I love.”
