Throughout this course, I’ve become more familiar with different possibilities for pastoral counseling techniques/methods and the contexts in which they may be appropriately utilized. From my perspective, the way in which pastoral counseling can be enacted varies widely. It is like a Gestalt. The particular pieces may be swapped out or re-arranged to meet the…
After a full day of working a residential site for internship, in the hopes of growing in the field of clinical counseling, I needed to meet another student briefly before returning come back to my Steubenville apartment, to simply relax or to look at other school related project. However, the course of life sometimes leads…
“It may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won’t quite of despair me in the end.” -Julia Flyte in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited Early morning on I-20 comes slowly. Even from the driver seat of a…
Pastoral counseling is the journeying with another human to the goal of wellness and flourishing human existence. So what does this journey look like practically? First off, pastoral counseling clearly involves a foundation of good counseling. The pastoral counselor must be competent in theories and techniques of the helping profession. After this foundation is established,…
In the beginning of nursing school, it’s a common for teachers, peers, parents, and even patients to ask the question, “Why did you want to be a nurse?” The interesting thing is that I can look back now and distinctly tell you that in a class of about 60, the variation of answers was sparse.…
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It seems that every source on this topic and every person asked has a different answer to the question, “What is pastoral counseling?” Some are in agreement; others are not. To answer this question, I think it’s first necessary to ask why we are asking this question in the first place. What is the purpose…
Growing up as an Air Force “brat,” moving around every couple of years and living on different military bases around the world was a part of my everyday life. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s the lifestyle I also pictured for myself. However, I also wanted to attend Franciscan University. Thankfully, I’m able to do both thanks to…
A few days after my eleventh birthday, I was admitted to the hospital with a ruptured appendix. It felt like someone had spilled boiling soup all over my insides, and it landed me in the pediatric ward for more than three weeks. I don’t remember much from that stay, but I do remember a few…
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” –Mason Cooley Did you ever think that teachers had to come up with ways to teach their students that reading could be fun? Or did you ever know that teachers cater to individual students interests and likes to get them hooked…