RCMI Christian Counseling

27/02/2025

The RCMI Counseling Team headed by Ptra. Jinky S. Dizon.

We are here, ready to listen and empower!

27/02/2025

Grateful for the inspiring stories and shared journeys toward healing. 💖


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27/02/2025

𝗥𝗖𝗠𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 in collaboration with 𝗥𝗖𝗠𝗜 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵 successfully conducted a seminar that provided encouragement to many attendees at the "𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈" event held on February 22, 2025.

Thank you very much, RCMI Children Teachers!

27/02/2025

Moving from Heartaches to Healing
February 22, 2025
Speaker: Prof. Cristina Arcayan-Co

04/02/2025

Christian Counseling Department, in collaboration with the Children Ministry:

Moving from Heartaches to Healing
Seminar for Parents/Guardians of children with special needs

February 22 (Saturday) | 9:00 to 11:30 am
RCMI Main Sanctuary
Speaker: Prof. Cristina Arcayan Co (ATS Faculty Counseling Department)

This seminar is open to all our satellite churches and friends inside and outside the church. Pre-register now, either on-site or online.

Here's the online pre-registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRC5NY3aLTXpYaDSCFMfuhlTikxDlJ9FD3x9p3oGZad8WREw/viewform?usp=header

Don't miss this wonderful seminar. Let's invite someone we know who needs this.

01/02/2024

21/12/2023

Be a blessing to those who are grieving, as you invite them to celebrate this season, welcome also thier grief.

Holiday host etiquette: If you’re inviting someone to your home and they’re grieving, be sure you’re inviting their grief to attend, too. It will be there, anyway.

Don’t invite someone with the goal of cheering them up for the holidays. Don’t expect them to put on a happy face in your home. Don’t demand they fake it til they make it or do something they don’t want to do, either.

Invite them with the loving intention of offering cheer and companionship and unconditional care during the holidays. To do this, you will need to honor and be responsive to their needs and emotions.

You can do this by privately acknowledging their grief when you make the invitation:

“I know this season is extra hard and your heart is hurting. You and your grief are welcome in our home. Come as you are, we’d be honored to have you with us.”

It’s also incredibly loving to honor the reality that it’s often hard for grieving folks to know what they will want, need, be up for, or able to tolerate at the holidays.

Giving them an invite without the need for commitment and permission to change their mind is extra loving:

“You don’t have to decide right now. If it feels good to be with us, we will have plenty of food and love for you-just show up! I’ll check in again the day before to see if you’re feeling up to coming over and if there’s anything you’d like me to know about how we can support you.”

Your grieving friends and fam need attentive care and responsiveness at the holidays, not plans to keep them busy, distracted, and happy.

If they’re laughing, laugh with them.

If they’re weeping, ask if they’d like your company or your help finding a quiet place to snuggle up alone for awhile.

If they’re laughing while weeping, and this is more common than you’d think, stay with them - this is a precious moment of the human experience that is truly sacred.

We don’t need to protect ourselves or each other from grief at the holidays. In fact, the more we embrace grief as an honored holiday guest, the more healthy, happy, and whole our holidays will be. 🙏

Sarah Nannen

31/01/2023

Our perception of People, events, and things affect our health, our peace and our disposition. (Phil.4:8)