In this episode of the Hope + Help Podcast, host Christine Chappell interviews Esther Smith about her book, A Still and Quiet Mind: Twelve Strategies for Changing Unwanted Thoughts. Some of the questions addressed in this interview are:

• What types of thoughts could be categorized as "unwanted?"

• What are some common reasons why we might we be unaware of the content in our "thought life?"

• Why isn't the thought-change process as easy or automatic as we wish it would be?

• What helpful questions can we ask ourselves as we seek to know and examine our unwanted thoughts?

• Why is learning to pray our unwanted thoughts to God a critical part of the overall thought-change process?

• Why is it important to "disentangle" where our unwanted thoughts come from and where they are taking us?

• What does it mean to "repair" our thoughts and what are three biblically-faithful components of working through that process?

View the full show notes & links for this episode: https://ibcd.org/unwanted-thoughts-esther-smith

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