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The Best of You

Dr. Alison Cook

Join therapist and author, Dr. Alison Cook, as she guides you through some of your toughest challenges with wisdom, kindness, and grace. Together with friends and experts we'll unpack the best of psychology from a faith-based perspective. You’ll discover how to break free from painful patterns, mend your past, and…

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The Best of You

When “Love” Is Used to Cover Up Harm

222. Why You Still Feel Insecure—and How to Build a Secure Soul

How to Build a Life in a Place You Didn’t Choose

When You Need Friends to Carry Hope for You

When You Need a Safe Place to Run

The Fear Beneath Your Need for Control

221. How Attachment Wounds Shape the Way You Love—and Pray

You’re Bruised, Not Broken

When You Feel Too Messy to Be Loved

When You’ve Stopped Expecting Anything Good To Happen

When You Feel Like You Don’t Belong

220. Is Your Faith Falling Apart—or Growing Deeper? With Ian Morgan Cron

When Shame Makes You Feel Like Hiding

When You’re Afraid God Won’t Be Kind

When Your Soul Feels Empty and Depleted

When Spiritual Growth Starts to Feel Like Pressure

219. Why Rejection Hurts So Much—and How to Stop Abandoning Yourself When It Happens

How to Start Rebuilding When Something Has Been Broken

How to Stay Tender Without Being Naive

What to Do When Pain Makes God Feel Far Away

When You’re Exhausted From Proving You’re Good Enough

218. From Panic Attack to Survivor Season 50 Winner: How Aubry Bracco Learned to Trust Herself Again

When Your Pain Is Misunderstood

How Jesus Meets You in Grief

When You Feel Alone—and Wonder Where God Is

How to Know If It’s Your Inner Critic or Conviction

217. What to Do When You’re the Only One Trying: Leslie Vernick on Emotionally Destructive Relationships

How to Believe What God Says About You

How to Stop Silencing What You Need

What to Do When You Can’t Feel God Anymore

When You’re Tired of Being the Strong One

216. Forgiveness Without Self-Abandonment: How to Forgive Without Ignoring the Harm with Amy Orr-Ewing

Stop Letting Fear Make You Feel Smaller Than You Are

How to Love Someone Without Trying to Control Them

How to Stop Obsessing Over Someone Who Hurt You and Seems to Be Winning

When God Doesn’t Remove the Thing You Begged Him to Change

215. 5 Toxic Patterns + The Family Role You Didn’t Choose But Still Carry

Help May Be Closer Than You Think

What To Do When You Step Out in Faith and Start to Panic

When Your Spirit Feels Drained and You’re Barely Holding On

What If I Believe I Don’t Deserve Anything?

214. The Difference Between God's Voice and Spiritual Manipulation with Theologian Steven Tracy

The Day Children Play Again: God’s Vision for a Restored World

When Your Pain Becomes Your Identity: How Jesus Gives You a New Name

A Prayer for the Tired, Needy, and Overwhelmed

How to Sit With Grief When You Don’t Know What to Say—Even to Yourself

213. Inner Work and Outer Boundaries: Why Healing Requires Both

When Family Loyalty Gets Complicated

Overstimulated, Touched-Out, and Trying Not to Lose It

When Fear Has Been Running the Show

When Submission Has Been Used to Silence You

212. Why You Feel Everything So Deeply (and Other People Don’t): Childhood, Sensitivity & the Nervous System

Finding Secure Attachment in God When Productivity, Approval, or People Can’t Sustain You

How to Break a Bad Habit Without Hating Yourself

When You Feel Stuck in a Pit & Help Seems Far Away

How to Be Honest When You’re Angry Without Being Harmful

211. Is Productivity Ruining Our Mental Health? Why We Need More Play (Piera Gelardi)

When You’re Carrying Too Much Responsibility by Yourself

Over-Functioning, the Pressure to Meet Every Need, and What We Can Learn from Jesus

When You’re Trying to Control What You Can’t Control

How to Get Dressed on the Inside

210: From Emotionally Immature Parents to Emotionally Mature Parenting with Dr. Lindsay Gibson

Learning to Recognize the Voice of God

What to Do When You Have No More Capacity (But Life Asks You to Keep Showing Up Anyway)

The Relief of Feeling Small Under a Big Sky

What If Church Hurt Makes Gathering Feel Unsafe?

209. Triggered in Marriage, Parenting, or Friendship? How to Respond Without Overreacting OR Shutting Down

Attachment, Loyalty, and the Courage to Stay

When a Bible Verse Feels Unsafe

When Your Nervous System Is Scanning for Safety

How to Stop Needing Approval

208. Spiritual Dryness, Burnout, and the Desert Seasons of Faith with Tish Harrison Warren

The Ache of Feeling Unseen or Overlooked

When You Feel Judged

The Neuroscience of Guilt and Confession

Why You Feel Powerless (and How to Find Your Voice)

207. Why You Can’t Stop Overthinking—and How to Break the Spiral

Why You Resist the Very Thing That Could Help You

When Everything Feels Out of Control