Disclaimer
As the title suggests, this is not a detailed post about sleep. Such a post might put you to sleep!
Nor is this post providing medical advice about sleep. However, it is a little post about how a biblical counselor might respond if a counselee says,
“I’m not sleeping well…”
A Question About Biblical Counseling and the Sleepy Counselee…
Let’s assume that your counselee has made this comment about poor sleep. Let’s assume that you have listened well, collected data, and connected soul-to-soul (we don’t just do data collection; we also do soul connection). What now?
For several reasons, people often ask me about biblical counseling and the body.
People know that I see biblical counselors as “soul physicians of embodied-souls.” I write frequently about comprehensive soul care for the whole person. On Twitter/X, I post blogs like this: Do Biblical Counselors Focus on the Soul, or on the Body, or on the Embodied-Soul?
So, I’m not surprised that this Sunday afternoon I received this question from Shane on Twitter/X:
Bob, Greg Gifford made a comment in his latest book, Lies My Therapist Told Me, stating: “When you go to biblical counseling, the counselor should say, ‘Hey,
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