Another client, a different session: "I keep waiting for the anxiety to go away before I do the hard thing." I hear a version of this constantly — the assumption that courage is downstream of the fear disappearing first. That safety has to arrive before the valley does, not inside it.
Psalm 23 was written by a shepherd who knew better.
Read MoreThere's a particular shame in not being able to feel God's presence — as if not-feeling means not-believing. But the newest trauma research suggests the problem often isn't faith at all. It's a nervous system still forecasting danger in rooms that are actually safe. Here's what predictive processing gets right that the old "body keeps the score" model didn't — and what it means for anyone whose body won't cooperate with what their heart already believes.
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