{"id":66470,"date":"2023-10-27T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66470"},"modified":"2023-10-27T03:08:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T08:08:34","slug":"avoiding-quick-repairs-in-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66470","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Quick Repairs in Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Canada, there used to be a television show called The Red Green Show. It was a comedy sketch show that followed the antics of a plaid-shirted, suspender-wearing main character named Red Green, who could fix almost anything with a roll of duct tape. Throughout the show, Red Green frequently addressed the audience with this statement: &ldquo;If the women don&rsquo;t find you handsome, they should at least&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2023\/10\/27\/avoiding-quick-repairs-in-counseling\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all wrestle with the challenge of wanting to fix anything and everything. That\u2019s true not just in terms of our broken \u201cstuff\u201d but also in our broken lives and relationships. If we are honest with ourselves, we can probably admit to times when we have crudely applied spiritual duct tape to situations that needed more skill, love, patience, and grace. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":66472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[1453,101,708,96,728],"class_list":["post-66470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hope","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-sanctification","tag-the-counseling-process","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-16.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66473,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470\/revisions\/66473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}