Understanding and Integrating Our Emotions – Week 2 (1.19.25)

Guest preacher: Bethany Ackley DeBlaay, licensed therapist (MA, LLP, SEP)

Week 2 invites us to consider that we are distress managers, doing what we can (often unconsciously) to avoid what we perceive as uncomfortable, difficult or painful. As a result, when we grow up learning that certain emotions are bad (or worse, sinful), we will do what we can to ignore or surpress them. In order to integrate our emotions, we must learn to face all of our emotions by slowing down and staying curious.