Therapist Panel | David Roberts, Amy Travis, Thomas Floyd, and John Nance
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Therapist Panel | David Roberts, Amy Travis, Thomas Floyd, and John Nance

On February 19, 2023, three members of the Watershed Community who are also mental health therapists joined David on stage for a revealing and informational conversation sharing topics related to relationships, trauma, spirituality, and how all of these things impact how we see ourselves and others.

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I Know I Am But What Am I? Exploring our Relationship with Ourselves | David Roberts
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I Know I Am But What Am I? Exploring our Relationship with Ourselves | David Roberts

Teaching pastor David Roberts shares an exploration of the importance of paying attention to and developing a relationship with The Self, through the lens of Paul and Sigmund Freud. David talks about the his awareness of his own sense of self and delves into our ability to be in relationship with others as being dependent on our own self-concept.

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Forgiving Parents Who Hurt You | Kim Honeycutt & Shawn Bowers Buxton
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Forgiving Parents Who Hurt You | Kim Honeycutt & Shawn Bowers Buxton

Teaching Team members Kim Honeycutt and Shawn Bowers Buxton share in conversation about their own family-of-origin experiences, how it shaped them, and how they learned to honor their parents by setting boundaries and limits. They share from their own histories, discuss what forgiveness is and what it isn't, and offer us a path to healing from these childhood wounds to engage in deeper, meaningful relationships.

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Growing Yourself Back Up: What it means to be a child of God | Kim Honeycutt
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Growing Yourself Back Up: What it means to be a child of God | Kim Honeycutt

Recorded on Jan 29, 2023 at Watershed Charlotte, teaching team member and resident psychotherapist Kim Honeycutt shares a deeply personal and therapeutic talk about emotional regression, and how it affects our relationships with others and our relationship with the Divine. Kim also gives us some practical tools and knowledge to help establish patterns in our relationships that move us towards maturity, compassion, and health.

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Democratizing Relationships
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Democratizing Relationships

Matt shares a profound talk that gets into the ways that we – in the Church – have historically defined relationships in harmful ways, and how through a process of reclamation and liberation, we’re disrupting our understandings and celebrating all relationships when love is present.

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How To Love a Ghost
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How To Love a Ghost

Teaching Pastor Shawn Bowers Buxton shares a deeply heartfelt exploration of grief, grieving, and how to love those who are no longer with us. She explores how the divine shows up in those moments of loss and how transformation is unavoidable.

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Non-Violent Communication and the Divine
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Non-Violent Communication and the Divine

Teaching Pastor Cedric Lundy kicks off our annual relationship series by exploring the use of non-violent communication in our relationships. Further, Cedric argues that when we adopt a belief in a God who engages with us using judgmental, shaming, or belittling language, we begin to internalize those same tendencies towards ourselves.

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