Hi friends, I'm Lisa Tarkers and I'm excited to officially welcome you to therapy anthology. The podcast where we want to help you work through what you walk through. I know what it's like to look in a situation and disbelief and think how will I ever get over this. Well after walking through the last seven years in my life of extreme heartbreak and emotional trauma I'm now understanding it's not about getting over heart circumstances. It's about learning to walk through them and work through them. I needed wise people both in the therapy world and the theological world to help me. Where I know the enemy hope to get silenced me I've ended up being more determined than ever to help those in the fight of their lives better apply truth and have hope in their journey toward emotional healing. That's why I'm so thankful to have teamed up with my licensed professional counselor Jim Cress and director of theology at Proverbs 31 Ministries Dr. Joel Moodamale to bring you therapy anthology and while we do tackle some really hard topics you'll soon find we're just re-friends having a great conversation and learning from each other along the way. I even sometimes joke and say Jim and Joel bring expertise and I bring the issues because obviously what we talk about is what I need help with too. So if you're stuck in a place of feeling like you'll never get over the hurt you're facing my friends and I well we'd love to help you recognize small steps you can start with today to see the changes you're hoping for. Let's get started.