Allie Beth Stuckey

It's actually not progressivism.

It's not feminism.

It's not the new age, all things that I've talked about many, many times.

It's not even the toxic empathy that's interwoven into all of these belief systems that I just listed.

It's therapy culture.

I actually believe that the progressivism, feminism, toxic empathy, emotionalism, me-centeredness, new age-ish stuff that unfortunately impacts so many women's Bible studies, Christian women's books, and conferences are all downstream from the secular therapy pop psychology pseudo-spiritualism that we find on social media that is dedicated to women's therapy and therapy concepts.

Now, in the past, we've talked about what I dubbed in my first book, Toxic Mommy Culture.

So we've been talking about that, writing about that for years.

And a lot of what we're talking about today was actually written about in my first book, but I hadn't named it the way that I'm naming it now.

So Toxic Mommy Culture is...

the fad of complaining about motherhood on the internet and drowning your stress in wine and smut fiction.

And that concept, while terrible, is not exactly what we're talking about today, but it's related to this.

This is toxic therapy culture.

And that is the use of therapeutic language and concepts as an excuse for complaining and self-centeredness, a replacement for sanctification, for self-denial, for generosity, and the hard work of Holy Spirit-empowered holiness.

Now, before we get into the specifics on this, this is not an indictment on therapy as a whole.

I've told this story many times, wrote about it in my first book, of the counselor who spoke unrelenting truth to me about my eating disorder.

And God used that to reroute my life.

We have had multiple counselors on this show talk about how therapy can be Christ-honoring and can help Christians heal and reorient their lives around God and His Word.

And so I believe biblical counselors are a gift to the church.

And I think that there are many seasons in a person's life when seeking out counseling from professional wise Christians is necessary and good.