With All Your Psyche
WAYP explores the "How" of the Way of Jesus using all the tools of counseling psychology at our disposal. Whether you'd call yourself a Christian or not, join licensed therapist and former pastor Adam Skinner to discover new ways to live life with all your mind and all your soul.
Episodes
6 episodes
Episode 6: Dialectics of the Way
Dialectical thinking - the "both-and" mode of thinking, versus the "either/or" mode - is the difference between failure and success, between disorder and health, and between counterfeit versions of Christianity and actual, life-transforming Chr...
Episode 5: Even If (Anxiety and the Unconditional)
How are we supposed to deal with the anxiety of living in an uncertain world when, sometimes, the worst-case scenario really does happen? What is anxiety trying to do for us at an IFS parts-of-the-mind level? Is uncondition...
Episode 4: Meet Tyler (A Complete IFS Case Study)
We've established the basic theory behind IFS - now how do we put it into practice in the therapy room and in daily life? In this episode, we speedrun therapy with a simplified case study: a depressed, bitter Christian named Tyler who wan...
Episode 3: The Purpose of PTSD
The DSM-5 thinks of every disorder as a set of symptoms, but that doesn't answer the question of what PTSD actually is - or what it's trying to do to help us become whole again. Is there a redemptive drive behind our trauma symptoms? ...
Episode 2: Shepherding Your Psyche With the Internal Family Systems Model
How do we make sense of the way one mind can want so many conflicting things at once? In this episode, we explore the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model as a way to understand our own inner conflicts, how the mind organizes itself for ps...
Episode 1: Why Christianity and Psychology Need Each Other
If we're starting out on a journey of building better minds and lives, we have to figure out what actually makes that work. In this intro to the channel, we explore some foundational questions: Isn't the Bible all we need? Can Chris...