Journey of Hope Counseling

10/28/2025

10/16/2025

Personal transformation doesn’t happen in a straight line or all at once. You’ll face resistance, setbacks, and frustrations along the way. But those aren’t signs to quit — they’re opportunities to grow. By choosing honesty, vulnerability, and willingness, you’ll find strength you didn’t know you had. Resistance can become the very thing that moves you forward into freedom and authenticity.

~Henry Cloud

12/17/2023

The reality is that many people find this season stressful. So often the picture perfect image is just an illusion and there’s a lot going on underneath the surface that we just don’t share about ourselves or see in others. Life is complex. For any of us, It’s very rarely as simple or picture perfect as it may appear.

Two simple ideas to help:

1. Remember every time you make a comparison, you are comparing your full iceberg to just the tip of everyone else’s iceberg. That’s not a fair comparison.

2. If you’re beating yourself up for what’s underneath your surface, remember that we all have a submerged story, even if it feels like others don’t. We all have stuff going on and feel bad and struggle at times. It’s just human.

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11/21/2023

11/06/2023

Change doesn't happen when we think about it - it happens when we take a step in a new direction.

06/04/2023

Trust is entering into a state of vulnerability with the potential of being hurt.

11/10/2022

Yes!

12/24/2021

For many people Christmas is filled with dread instead of delight. Author Jon Walker writes this: “I’m sitting in a fast food restaurant observing a young girl celebrating an early Christmas with her mother. Her presents are spread out across the booth and she just said, ‘I miss you, Mommy.’ ‘I miss you too, Baby,’ her mother says. Beyond the booth…a woman casually, but carefully watches them. Using my journalist’s eye, I put it all together. The watching woman is a social worker supervising a structured visit for a mother and child who are doing their best to celebrate Christmas…a few minutes later foster parents arrive and take the little girl home. The mother leaves alone. There’s a darker side to Christmas we rarely acknowledge. We create this fantasy that seldom matches reality, even in the best of homes…many Christmas memories are full of tension, not tinsel…the holidays are just another excuse for Mommy to get drunk, or Daddy to be with his new family…yet another reminder that the one we love is far away or perhaps never coming back…The su***de rate is extraordinarily high in December…depression as common as ‘Joy to the World’…more people hurt at Christmas than we initially imagine. For those tired of the hollow hope…of Christmas, the good news is, God is with us. Jesus came to earth to ‘bring…good news…for all the people.’ Regardless of your situation, Christmas is the best gift you’ll ever get, because: (1) it’s the costliest you’ll ever receive because it cost Jesus His life; (2) it’s the only gift that lasts forever; (3) it’s one you can enjoy for the rest of your life.”
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