🎙️Episode Title: The War at the Kitchen Table: Breaking the Inheritance of Anger

Host: Jeffrey L. Johnson

Jeffrey L. Johnson:

Welcome to the Insight Podcast, where clinical behavioral health meets scriptural authority. I’m your host, Jeffrey L. Johnson, and this is Counselor’s Corner.

Have you ever promised yourself—with total sincerity—that you were going to respond with patience, only to catch yourself reacting in irritation minutes later? Have you ever known, with absolute clarity, the right path to walk, yet found yourself pulled backward into an old, unwanted habit?

If you’ve ever felt that internal tug-of-war, you are not alone, and you are not a lost cause. In Romans chapter 7, the Apostle Paul captured that exact human frustration when he wrote: "For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do."

Today, we are taking Paul’s internal war into the counseling room. We are going to look at the story of a man named Michael, and we’ll examine how three clinical frameworks—Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Logotherapy—illuminate the battle between habit and intention. More importantly, we’re going to see how your daily choices tie directly into your Universal Legacy.

Lean in, grab your notebook, and let’s enter the counselor’s corner.