Globally, human trafficking affects millions of people each year as they are illegally lured into forced labor and sexual exploitation through force, fraud, or coercion. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimates that human trafficking is second only to drug…
Pain is pain—whether temporarily acute, chronically persistent, related to terminal illness, psychological, or judged phantom or psychosomatic. It’s been keenly observed that the pain we don’t transform in our lives is the pain we will project, transmit, and ultimately be…
Everyone will experience trauma at some point in their life. Some people will bounce back from it, stronger than ever; others will struggle to move forward, seemingly stuck in the past. On October 27th, 2022, Andrew Duffy, LCSW, discussed this…
People want to be helpful when friends are experiencing grief. However, the fear of saying the wrong thing often limits any expression of compassion at all. On April 28, 2022, at a Bright Tomorrows Breakfast Seminar in the Laureate Conference…
A Bright Tomorrows Workshop with Licensed Therapist and Counselor, Tim Peterson Anxiety is on the rise worldwide and is the most prevalent of mental disorders. On October 28, 2021, Tim Peterson, Outpatient Clinical Supervisor at Laureate Psychiatric Hospital in Tulsa,…
Moral Injury (soul/spirit injury) has likely been with humankind since the beginning of time. Moral Injury (MI) is a relatively new term used in the mental health community to describe the psychological damage people may face when they act in…
Scripture encourages us to “be quick to listen and slow to speak” (James 1:19). It is estimated that there are 50,000 speech courses in U.S. colleges every year, but roughly only a couple of hundred listening courses. Further, it is…
Republican or Democrat? COVID-19 lockdown or open the economy? March for the mistreated or stand with civil servants? You live in a land full of conversations that come laced with explosives. One errant step and you can detonate a relationship,…
By Tim Reside Sunday, August 13, 2017, Tim Reside had the opportunity to share a healing message from the pulpit of Rev. Larry Morris at “Living Word Nazarene Church” in Houston, Texas. Pastor Morris shared a heart-felt introduction followed by…