Karen is a Licensed Professional Counselor whose specialty is helping those who have been injured in pursuit of their faith. She believes that many hurts can be healed once we gain an accurate view of God and His desire to relate to us. Karen received her Bachelor of Science degree in Bible and Secondary Education from Maranatha Baptist Bible College in 1978 and her Masters of Education in Counseling from the University of Missouri St. Louis in 2001.
Karen is the author of Lord, Shut Me Up; Anger Management for Christians based on personal experience and observations of those who struggle with anger and its negative results in relationships.
She and her husband, Don have been married for 30 years and have two adult children and one special daughter-in-law. Karen loves to find the humor in daily living and urges those around her to enjoy the gift of life God has given to each of us.
Visit my web-site at: www.karenwasoba.com
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You are a wonderful author w/ a heart for the Lord & others. Thank you for all you do.
Hi Karen,
I had Ryan in my class years ago. It would appear that he is now married–hard to believe that little guy who did not blink while playing video games is old enough to be married. It was fun to see you on St. Charles Christian Therapy network. My youngest daughter, Becky, is doing her counseling internship work from Covenant Seminary.
Bobbie
I think it’s awesome to have a therapist in the family!
Ryan’s been busy as a musician and writer as well as being a married man. I don’t know how he does it all.
Check out some of his work on Crawdaddy.com
If you like it, he takes after me. If not, he’s definitely his daddy’s boy.
Karen
Hi Karen, just finished reading your book: “Lord, shut me up”. I found the chapter on not forgiving too soon very helpful and guilt relieving as I have often walked round our local woods muttering to God “I know I will (have to) forgive him (husband) but I can’t doit yet” and it seemed so wrong and unbiblical.
However, I have to say I have absolutely NO physical symptoms before the pyroclastic volcano goes off! This means I have no time to do LSMU. Which brings me to my other problem – as a pommy/limey, whatever, I find acronyms quite hard. It took me AGES to remember/find in the book what INU2Y meant. Perhaps this was partly because what you were really saying was that it WAS up to ME, which I think to myself as “it is up to you”.
Thank you for the book and your honesty.
Blessings,
Katharine
Katharine,
I’m so tickled to hear you’ve been helped by my book!
Let me add a few thoughts:
The acronym INU2Y is a way of reminding yourself that it’s okay to sit back and wait for a bit before making a spiritual or emotional decision.
That means that even when someone tries to exert pressure (perhaps to make themselves feel better?) you can think, “YOU (other person) aren’t going to be the one who will answer for MY decisions.”
Another thought: Sometimes when there are no physical warning signs, it’s an indicator that you’ve repressed them to a point where you don’t even have them anymore. But I bet you used to.
Let me encourage you to consider that and allow yourself to relax even in the presence of conflict. Chances are God will reveal what’s going on in your heart and mind.
Again, thanks for the feedback. It’s encouraging to know my experiences are touching lives.
If you like my writing, feel free to access my blog via http://www.karenwasoba.com. I hope you enjoy it.
Karen