There’s a difference between knowing how to forgive and knowing how to forgive well. “I know I have to forgive my father,” said one of my clients. She was stuck in a web of various struggles—scrupulosity, daddy issues, and ...
Jaimie Eckert
Oct 6, 2024
Living with scrupulosity is is a real thorn in the side. It can take its toll on your spiritual life, your career, and of course the relationships that mean the most. Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to ...
Jaimie Eckert
Sep 22, 2024
Today’s guest post is from someone with a rare combination of qualifications–David Emmerich is a Christian pastor AND a therapist who helps people with religious OCD. David and I got chatting about Martin Luther’s response to uncertainty, and he ...
Guest
Aug 30, 2024
I can still remember the frenzied, anxious cloud that hung over me, more than a decade ago, as I hunched over my dorm room desk. I was listening to an 8-hour apologetic sermon series on the existence of God. ...
Jaimie Eckert
Aug 9, 2024
Have you ever gone through a trial so severe that it completely obliterated your view of the Father? Have you felt your strength melting away in dark valleys where God is hidden? Believers with mental health struggles feel this ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jul 19, 2024
One question we often hear almost daily in the scrupulosity recovery community: “Does God forgive blasphemous thoughts?” It’s one of the stickiest and most repetitive conversations, and if you’ve had this conversation with a loved one or a spiritual ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jun 30, 2024
Have you ever confused serendipity, or positive coincidences, with God’s leading? Does “overspiritualizing” come a little too easily for you? Maybe the following example of someone with scrupulosity will resonate and help you begin discerning between positive coincidences and ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jun 7, 2024
Are you the spiritual mentor of someone with religious OCD? God bless you, dear soul, for bearing with us. Today’s post is for you–anyone who finds themselves offering spiritual guidance to those with an overly sensitive conscience. A dear, ...
Jaimie Eckert
May 27, 2024
You’re striving against sin or against your OCD, but you’re not winning. You keep failing, and each failure makes you feel further and further from God. You want so badly to stop your sin or your compulsive behaviors, but ...
Jaimie Eckert
May 13, 2024
Are you afraid you’re not saved? Despite all your best attempts to draw close to Jesus… Despite your fastidious prayers and confessions and surrenders… Despite your earnest and tearful rooting out of sin… Despite the obvious presence of “good ...
Jaimie Eckert
Apr 26, 2024
