EP. 56 Heart of The Matter Series: A Counseling Tool That Helps Expose Deceptive Thoughts, Desires, and Habits

Episode Notes:The Heart of the Matter: designed to help facilitate a process with our counselees to help with the opportunity of examining their hearts. Drawn from Psalm 26.2Heart log (helpful in assisting counselees to identify various aspects of their hearts begin to identify our theirs through logging A situationTheir emotionTheir thoughts and beliefsTheir desires and wantsTheir subsequent behaviors and habitsEmotion Wheel Emotions are often smoke alarms of the soul that alert us to problemsUsing the exercises to reveal deceptive patterns of thoughts, desires, behaviors, etc. Deceptive thoughts about situations and othersDeceptive thoughts about selfDeceptive desiresLevel of desireSinful behaviors or habitsThis series is intended to diagnose what is going on within the counselee. The next part of the series will be about "Put On", where this series is about "Put Off"Episode Resources:BooksA Theology of Christian Counseling - Jay Adams.Linkshttp://feelingswheel.com/Episode Quotes:Situation is just a context that exposes the heart. - Jeremy Lelek.Idolatry is when you give yourself permission not to love God or someone else because you didn't get what you wanted. - Jeremy Lelek.Habits shape the heart - Christian History.