How do you reconcile faith in god with therapy?

[arabianhorselover]

I feel like God places people in our life to help us. Therapists are one of them.

Agreed.

 

[CdnCopper]

I'm not in therapy, the first and last time was almost 30 years ago. It's been quite the journey, but I haven't done it alone.

I am a Christian and I pray a number of times daily for direction, healing, forgiveness and peace. I'm a firm believer that God puts opportunities, people, things into our lives to help us in our life journey whether that's a therapist, doctor, a new acquaintance or just a complete stranger giving us a passing smile. Sometimes its just a sliver of hope that today might be better than yesterday, or tomorrow might just be better than the past month.

That faith has kept me going for a very long time and no matter how difficult it may be to put my trust in God and leave my fears, doubts and worries with him {and it has/is extremely difficult at times} I'm willing to accept whatever plan he has for me and that includes whoever or whatever he decides to place into my life.

 

[Gs172003]

I'm not in therapy, the first and last time was almost 30 years ago. It's been quite the journey, bu...

I needed to read that. Thanks you.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Why would you want to put your healing into gods hands? To what end? It sounds like the lazy way out. God doesn’t sit up there and dole out healing as he sees fit. This isn’t how he works. And if he did, then do you see therapy and psychiatry as the Antichrist? Satanic? G

OMG! If I could like this a million times I would. Had an old Christian friend (I'm not a Christian) call me last night, after not speaking to me for 5 yrs, trying to push "god" on me...again. My head is all jumbled and the cult stuff and "god stuff" is a tangled insane mess that I do not want to tackle and gave up on trying to figure out. But, he seemed so butthurt that I was in therapy. Talking down on my therapist of 9 yrs and telling me that I don't need therapy, that he understood the war I had with my own mind to change my core beliefs and move away from cult beliefs (which is a bunch of f*cking bullshit! How do you understand unless you were in a cult too?), and all I needed was "god"...not therapy. f*ck you dude! f*cking pissed me off! Yeah, accept god and sit back and let the healing begin? That's fake shit in my opinion! A f*cking illusion! Healing happens with work. Hard nitty gritty work. Not by accepting "god" and sitting back doing nothing!