Dr. Tabatha Barber uses 2 Timothy 1:7 to argue that real well-being requires self-discipline and self-love, not just waiting for doctors to fix you. She worked with Jackie and her husband on collaborative care that demanded they step into the work themselves. Lasting change depends on you doing it.
It's, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." So to me, that speaks so much to how you need to approach comprehensive care for yourself, working with someone like Jackie and her husband, because you do have to get in the game and be an active participant and take responsibility and have some self-discipline and learn how to love yourself and just step into what God is offering to you. Like, at the end of the day, there is no magic pill, right? Because we just live in this culture where the doctor is going to fix me, I'm going to go to the nurse practitioner and she's gonna like tell me what to do and it's all going to be better. But the truth of it is you have to do the work, right?
