Mon Feb 17 2025

Emotional health is deeply intertwined in an ongoing journey with spiritual health. This involves opening to our pain, grieving our trauma, and patiently cultivating a resilience that stabilizes and secures our relationships and our sense of self. With compassion, pastoral presence, and emotional attunement, psychologist Dr. David Wang is using psychological and theological tools to help us understand and adapt to emotional realities, explore the wounds of our past, and find healing and strength through acceptance and grief. In this conversation with David Wang, we discuss: - The difference between human development and spiritual formation and how to understand maturity - The centrality of relationships in human life and growth, and how that’s grounded in divine relationality and our communion with God - How to become friends with ourselves, offering self-compassion and being moved by our own suffering - The impact of childhood trauma on adult emotional, psychological, and spiri...