by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 26, 2022 | Pain
When one can’t tolerate uncomfortable emotions, it can effectively put the person in a cage. The more she tries to avoid thoughts, people, and experiences that stir up uncomfortable emotions, the smaller and more isolated her life becomes…… even sometimes...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 22, 2022 | 1 Corinthians 13, childhood memories
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Corinthians 13:11.. Jesus points to children as an example of the kind of faith, love, and trust for Father that he wants...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 22, 2022 | Addictions, childhood memories, counseling
We are made in the image of God . You are a spirit, you have a soul (made up of mind will and emotions…, or in layman’s terms, your thinker, feeler and chooser) and as long as you are on this earth you live in a body…, Now I would venture to bet that 90%+ of the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | addiction
WARNING: Content may be distressing…… Today’s continuing education webinar on PTSD vs. Schizophrenia was both interesting and disturbing. The role of early childhood trauma in PTSD is unequivocal, although the symptoms may not appear until years...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 5, 2022 | healing, Suffering
The matter of suffering and our desire to somehow avoid it in life has been very present lately as my awareness has been heightened by my own and others’ experiences…. One person told me she’d had a dream in which her abuser, no longer in her life,...
