Thrive In 5: Emotional – Conscious or unconscious empathy?
God created us with a hard-wired capacity to sense and respond to the emotions of others
Thrive in 5 Emotional
Emotions or Feelings?
What is an “emotion?” Are emotions and feelings synonyms?
Gratitude
Gratitude has been the focus of social science research for well over a decade.
Self-Control
Self-control assists ministry leaders to manage difficult conversations or confrontations with greater emotional calm.
How is your EQ?
You have heard of IQ. Have you also heard of EQ?
Empathy
Empathy is an important leadership skill for pastors.
Managing Your Negative Emotions
Managing Your Negative Emotions While most church leaders prefer to avoid negative emotions such as distress, fear, anxiety, etc., all church leaders will experience a variety of negative emotions at some point. Negative emotions are our survival brain’s early warning...
Are You Experiencing Compassion Fatigue?
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” (Gal. 6:9). Compassion fatigue is “weariness in doing good.”
Thrive In 5-The Motivational (Emotional)
As a pastor, If you have discovered that your motivation has taken a vacation and left you behind, you are not alone.
Thrive In 5-The Practice of Emotional Wellness (Emotional)
How would you rate your emotional wellness?
Thrive In 5: Emotional – Feeling Safe
Since March 2020 the world in which we live feels like a dangerous place. For some of us, that sense of danger is actually real. For others of us, the sense of danger is more in our nonconscious perception of threat.
Thrive In 5: Emotional – Ambiguous Loss
The COVID-19 virus has changed the way we “do life” and “do church” so that we are simultaneously absent and present.
Thrive In 5: Emotional -Are you a “High Hoper?”
All of us will face moments when we must exercise hope. Hope researchers observe that hope is active, not passive. “High hopers” exert whatever degree of control they have to reach that for which they hope.
Thrive In 5: Emotional- Emotional Rule of Life
Cultivating a healthier emotional life.
Thrive In 5: Emotional-Holiday Season Preparation
With the holidays just around the corner, pastors are entering one of their busiest seasons….
Thrive In 5: Emotional -Self-justification
Self-justification
Thrive In 5: Emotional – Peacefulness through Prayer
Peacefulness through Prayer
Thrive In 5: Emotional – Establishing Healthy Boundaries
As a pastor, you know how important your emotional vitality is to ministry. Take 5 minutes to consider the following suggestions of how you can establish and maintain boundaries to protect your own emotional health and sense of well-being.
Thrive In 5: Emotional Cultivating an Emotional Core
Pastoral ministry requires the ability to withstand the emotional stresses of life and be “present” and empathetic to others.
Thrive In 5: Emotional
If you have read A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh, are you an Eeyore or a Tigger? “Eeyores” are your typical pessimists. Life is one disappointment after another. Positive things are never as good as imagined. Neutral things are worse than expected. Negative things...
Thrive In 5: Emotional
How do you feel about the person you are with when you are all alone? This is when your capacity for self-loathing or self-liking reveals itself. The odds are good that you may experience either attitude about your “self” at one time or another. As a pastor,...
Thrive in 5 – Emotional – Cultivating an Emotional Core
As a pastor, you know how important your emotional vitality is to ministry. Pastoral ministry requires the ability to withstand the emotional stresses of life and be “present” and empathetic to others. Emotional vitality also includes resilience, the...
Thrive in 5 – Emotional – Establishing Healthy Boundaries
As a pastor, you know how important your emotional vitality is to ministry. The pastoral vocation is unique in nature compared to all other helping professions. Ministry is not a 9-5 job; insisting on “normal hours” will lead only to frustration for you...