Julie Powers, LPCC at Valley Oak Counseling

09/22/2021

The only person we can change is ourselves. When we surrender our lives to Christ, He gives us the strength to change.

Accepting that we are not in control of the other person and that we can only control ourselves is essential for growth.

Without tools, we can't effectively change ourselves. At our intensive workshops, you will be given tools to recover sexual integrity, experience true connection in marriage, prepare for parenting your teen, and heal after betrayal. To learn more about these workshops, visit https://newlife.com/workshops/?source=OLSM

09/07/2021

Rules without connection are limits without love. Remember, boundaries happen within relationships and give room for love to grow.

08/28/2021

Going through something traumatic often leaves us paralyzed in the moment—and unable to ever move into any measure of healing or wholeness. I have heard

05/18/2021

“There’s nothing that harshness does that loving firmness doesn’t do better.”
~Terry Real

Full Respect Living Part One: Healthy Self-Esteem Let’s talk about the relationship between you and you. I have a saying. In adulthood, we tend to hold ourselves the way we were held. We internalize what came at us and now we throw it at ourselves. If you were indulged, you’ll make excuses; if y...

04/30/2021

04/18/2021

God can turn any family’s shame into a future. His grace can mend a broken situation, redeem a broken person, answer forbearing prayers, and turn a loss into a legacy. Don’t give up on yourself or a loved one.

04/17/2021

Couples struggle with understanding what they have the power to change in their marriages. More often than not, they are concerned with changing their spouse’s behavior. Human nature lends itself to trying to change and fix others so that we can be more comfortable.

But you have the power to start identifying ways you are actively or passively contributing to the problem, and you have the power to change.

So, what is is that you’re doing now to take control of the life that you want to live?

04/17/2021

Unforgiveness creates a root of bitterness. Hebrews 12:15 (NLT) puts it this way, "Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you..."

There’s only one way to uproot it…forgive!

Does forgiveness=reconciliation? No. Although forgiveness can happen without the offender saying, “I’m sorry,” reconciliation should never happen until the offender says, “I’m sorry.”

Remember, actions speak louder than words.

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04/05/2021

One of the most valuable things you can do with your safe people, ranking up there with asking for help, needing, and melting resistance, is simply to invite the truth about yourself. We have so many blind spots and areas where we aren’t aware of our self-destructiveness. 

04/05/2021

What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuin...

03/29/2021