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Spanking and Trauma Responses (opens the original)
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What do you do when you feel like you’re “in trouble?”Think back to the last time you made a mistake. You missed a deadline at work. Forgot a school event for your kids. Dropped the ball on a household task you agreed to do. Totally spaced on a close friend’s birthday party.What did you do in response to your mistake?Did you argue and make excuses? Shut down and just refuse to talk about it? Try to hide the mistake and keep to yourself? Or apologize profusely and go overboard in your attempts to
Unanswered Questions from Death of the Pastor’s Wife (opens the original)
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Were you shocked after watching Death of the Pastor’s Wife?I wasn’t. But as one Threads commenter stated, it was “triggering and validating AF.”That’s how I felt watching it: triggered but validated.I didn’t hear anything in the documentary that I haven’t heard before as someone who has been a Christian now 40 years and spent up to 35 of them in the evangelical church, Christian colleges, and conservative Christian culture. Now I’m a licensed psychologist with over 15 years of experience as a th
How Spanking Causes Trauma (opens the original)
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“Well, I was spanked and I turned out fine!” A comment I hear on almost a weekly basis from a client in therapy, a non-follower on social media, or just the young adult man sitting next to me on an airplane.And I want to say, But did you? Or is this just a defensive part of you that is unwilling to look at reality?Because the research is too overwhelming that the long-term effects of spanking are negative (or neutral at best) to keep perpetuating the sentiment that spanked kids “turn out fine.”A
40 Favorites for my 40th Birthday (opens the original)
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I have now reached the age where it is a compliment to tell me I look younger than I am.This has happened my entire life, but is only now welcome.It was not welcome when I went to my youngest sister’s elementary school orientation and the teacher offered to help me find my classroom. I was in high school.It was not welcome when I was in my first job as a psychologist and told I looked like I was straight out of high school. I was 27.It was not welcome when I was a college professor and told I lo
5 Toxic Christian Teachings You Need to Reparent Yourself From (opens the original)
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Like many people, I naively thought I had a lot figured out before becoming a parent. After all, I was in my 30s, in a healthy marriage, a psychologist who had worked with countless clients, and with several years of my own personal therapy under my belt. Yet parenting has smacked me in the face with my still-unresolved issues and revealed more wounds I thought I had buried. You don’t have to be a parent to notice the need to reparent yourself
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