When Life Feels Like One Long Failure
Feel like a failure? Like you don’t deserve happiness? That even if you could behappy, the rug would be yanked out from under you? You might be wrestling with something therapists call cognitive distortion. Cognitive distortion happens when your mind imagines things that aren’t true — and then uses those inaccurate concepts to reinforce negative […]
But God…
We have seen so many changes in this past year, and it’s hard to wrap our minds around this “new normal.” Simply put, we have our pre-COVID lives and our since COVID lives. We used to be able to gather with our friends and family, unafraid. We used to be able to go out to […]
But God…
We have seen so many changes in this past year, and it’s hard to wrap our minds around this “new normal.” Simply put, we have our pre-COVID lives and our since COVID lives. We used to be able to gather with our friends and family, unafraid. We used to be able to go out to […]
Lament
This past year with the pandemic, being quarantined, and social and political unrest, we often struggle to make sense of daily life. As believers, we read 1 Thessalonians 5:18, which tells us to give thanks in all circumstances. To give thanks in all circumstances invites us to call out to God. There is a tension […]
Lament
This past year with the pandemic, being quarantined, and social and political unrest, we often struggle to make sense of daily life. As believers, we read 1 Thessalonians 5:18, which tells us to give thanks in all circumstances. To give thanks in all circumstances invites us to call out to God. There is a tension […]
Finding Peace in a Time of Strife
Many of the symptoms that bring people to the Meier Clinics may be described as a lack of peace: interiorly, relationally, and globally. We at the Clinics have heard many tragic stories of fearful, troubled, broken, and often fragmented hearts and minds. People are impacted by all forms of prejudice and hatred. People are trying […]
Tips for Coping with the Holidays
The holidays bring excitement and joy for many people. Celebrating the birth of our Lord gives us joy and peace and we look forward to new year ahead with hope. However, the holidays can also bring much stress. This time of year, often brings many demands to our lives, including cooking meals, shopping, baking, cleaning, […]
How to Keep Depression From Negatively Impacting Your Family
It’s the season of thanksgiving and glad tidings! Well … not necessarily. For those struggling with depression, we may know these are important months, but we don’t feel delight. Instead, we see others joyfully baking pies and wrapping presents. The apparent ease of their happiness can be a stinging reminder of how hard we have […]
The Effects of Remote Learning on Children
Prior to March 2020, school was a constant in the lives of most American children. School was not only a place of learning, but a place of social interaction, a place to play, a place to share meals and a place to develop and maintain relationships with peers and teachers. However, with Covid-19, schools across […]
When You Have to Grieve in Isolation
These are agonizing days of loss upon loss — and the death of a loved one (whether to COVID-19 or another cause) can feel like an overwhelming blow. In large part, what can make that loss especially painful is that we must sorrow in isolation. What’s needed for healthy grieving hasn’t changed, but how we […]
