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Uniqueness Spirituality Pastoral Counseling As Pastoral Counselors, we recognize the importance of the spiritual dimension to the human experience. Thus, we are committed to bringing that dimension into the process of healing. As we have practiced this art of healing, we have come to realize that the distinction between psychological healing and the spiritual journey is rather blurred if, in fact, non-existent. The core understanding of our work here is based on the understanding of the IAM. In our sense of consciousness, of I-AM-WHO-I-AM, as stated above, is one of the fundamental ways in which we participate and are connected to the God Energy. Thus, if anything gets in the way of articulating, bringing into fulness the IAM energy in us, then our spiritual path is off track. We have come to understand that, because of the wounds of the past, peoples' ability to be in the integrity of their IAM is either severely damaged or lost. In our role as pastoral counselors, psycho-spiritual healers, we understand the help that we give is to assist the individual who is lost in their wounded-ness, to re-claim their core Self, the IAM, by giving up the false self that they have constructed over the years. Our point of view at the IAM Center is that the pastoral counseling process that persons travel through here and the lifelong work of healing their wounds is a spiritual process because it is a claiming back of the IAM identity that is ours by birthright (‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.' Jeremiah 1:5) As pastoral counselors we regard ourselves as physicians of the soul, in the broad sense of being healers. It is our understanding of the human condition that everyone emerges from the developmental time with some degree of wounded-ness, no matter how good, mediocre or inadequate the parenting we received was. Some of us certainly were battered, emotionally, psychologically, physically by a parent(s). Others of us suffered physically, emotional and/or psychological neglect. Still others of us had parents who were essential quite capable of being good parents, but events that hit us as children (like a parent or grandparent dying, a sibling being born, etc.) that were beyond the ken of the parenting we received, left their scars. So, no matter the scars or their reasons for being there, it is a part of each person's journey to find a way to heal them. Back To Spirituality |
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