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A Wake-Up Call for Believers in these Confusing and Divisive Times

“If we cannot choose to love each other above the narrative of division this culture is pushing, we have no witness.” By Audrey Hardin, MS LPC

UNEQUALLY YOKED: How to Maintain Relationships When You are in Different Places in Life

“Consider these three steps to maintain relationship when you’re in different places.” By Karla Hardin, M.S. LPC

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Why We Need To Embrace Risk

“The only thing to fear is fear itself…” -F.D. Roosevelt By Philip K. Hardin, MDiv, LMFT, LPC

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Addiction: Reclaiming Your Life

“Real recovery is the RECLAIMING of the life God intended.” By Philip K. Hardin, M.A., M.Div.

Bridget CrowderAugust 1, 2021addiction due to pandemic, recovery model, reconnection, reclaim your life, community healing, hardin life

Is Your Need to Escape Leading You to Addiction?

“Our invitation to escape lies in our current feelings of exhaustion, overwhelm, and anxiety.” By Audrey Hardin, MS LPC

We Can’t Heal Alone: 4 Tips to Break Any Addiction

“In order to find complete healing, we need relationship with another.” By Abigail Cole Hardin, CLC; PNLP

SOCIAL, EMOTIONALBridget CrowderJuly 18, 2021healing addiction, recovery model, alternative addiction treatment, best addiction research, best addiction treatment, healing community, how to stop addictive behavior, how to change during COVID-19, addiction due to covid19, addiction due to pandemic, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholic after covid-19, christian addiction recovery

Are We Going About Treating All Addictions All Wrong?

“Neuroscience is radically challenging old models of understanding and treating addiction!” By Karla Hardin, MS LPC

Bridget CrowderJuly 11, 2021new addiction treatment, neuroscience and addiction, 12 steps, emotional addiction, how to treat emotional addiction, best addiction research, best addiction treatment, recovery model, anti-recovery model, anti-twelve steps, alternative addiction treatment, christian neuroscience research, biblical truth about addiction

4 Lies We All Tell to Protect Our Relationships

“These lies can plague even ‘good’ Christians who really hate lying but find themselves doing it anyway!'“ By Karla Hardin, MS LPC

Is Your Self-Protection Keeping You from Intimacy?

“If we have ever been hurt in a relationship, we naturally fear being hurt again. Consider how your fear is keeping you from deep connection.” By Abigail Cole Hardin, CLC; PNLP

Are Your Relationships Healing-Relationships?

“Healing relationships are necessary for our emotional, social, and spiritual growth.” By Philip K. Hardin, MA, MDiv, LMFT, LPC

Bridget CrowderJune 13, 2021power of healing relationships, healing relationships, hurting others, hurt in relationships, how to change how we hurt others, childhood hurt closure, childhood wounds, secure attachment and God, safe attachment, attachment love, the relational soul, relationship repair, commit to healing, christian growth attachment, hardin life resources, hardin life, healing your relationship with God, how to heal after trauma

4 Steps to Navigating Your Season of Singleness Well

“Whether you’re single as in ‘never married’’ single due to divorce or death; or you know someone in this season and feel clueless with how to encourage them –this is for you!” By Audrey Hardin, MS LPC

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How to Check Back In From a “Checked-Out” Life

“Learn a simple technique to stop going through the motions and start living connected life.” By Abigail Cole Hardin, CLC; PNLP

EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUALBridget CrowderMay 23, 2021how to practice noticing, become self-aware, become more self-aware, trauma recovery, what trauma does to the brain, checked out, how to work through your past, how to deal with loss, practice noticing, yoga noticing, holy noticing, recover from chronic anxiety, perfectionist recovery, reconnection

3 Ways Consistency Changed My Life

“Sadly, I believe a lot of people stay stuck like I was because we think failure is fatal…” By Karla Hardin, MS LPC

Ownership: Are You Taking Responsibility For Your Life?

“It is impossible to fix a problem you can’t admit you have.” By Philip K. Hardin, MA, MDiv, LMFT, LPC

EMOTIONALBridget CrowderMay 9, 2021ownership, how to own your story, must own to grow, how to own your shit, ownership as a pathway to growth, ownership for connection, can't grow without ownership, life skills, self-responsibility, how to take responsibility, own it, Boundaries, over-responsibility, christian growth, blind spots as a christian, common blind spots

Why Should We Consider Self-Compassion a Life Skill We All Need?

“If compassion means ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ Self-compassion can mean ‘Love yourself as your neighbor.’”

By Emily Patterson, LICSW, PIP

EMOTIONALBridget CrowderMay 2, 2021self-worth, self-compassion, life skills, how to practice self compassion, the christian life, how to grow, how to improve your live

What is Your Enneagram Conflict Style?

“Consider how understanding your type can help you resolve conflict faster!” By Audrey Hardin, MS LPC

SOCIALBridget CrowderApril 25, 2021christian enneagram, enneagram exhaustion, conflict styles, harmony patterns, enneagram harmony, enneagram conflict styles, stuck in conflict, enneagram help childhood, Enneagram Story, enneagram social style, enneagram basics, enneagram fears, enneagram needs, how to resolve conflict

How to Understand Your Life Story Using the Enneagram

“The Enneagram reveals strategies and gives guidance to understand the story of where I’ve come from and decide where I’m headed.” By Philip K. Hardin, MA, MDiv, LMFT, LPC