Scripture named this pattern centuries before "parentification" became a clinical term. A look at what God's Word, forty years of research, and the Christian counselors I trained under actually say — including where they disagree.
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Some thoughts about how David’s writing in the Psalms is evidence of how he participated in working out what he knew of neuroscience anandamide’s (Bliss Molecule) and the ever present effect of stress on a human body.
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Your brain held onto that memory for a reason. A neurotheological look at how childhood experience shapes the way we see God — and what can change.
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Whether or not you pray, your brain is doing something when you sit in silence, slow your breathing, and direct your attention toward something larger than yourself.
Neuroscientists call it a shift in default mode network activity — a measurable reorganization of how your brain allocates attention when it moves from reactive processing to something more intentional, more still. Contemplatives have called it communion for centuries. The research and the ancient practice are describing the same phenomenon from opposite ends of the same corridor.
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Grounded in 2 Chronicles 7:14, this post explores how one degree of intentional change — backed by neuroscience and Scripture — can rewire your heart and mind over the course of a year.
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