Posts by Mike Ferraro
Having A Safe Conversation
Most married couples I work with say they don’t communicate well. The word “communication” gets tossed around frequently and endlessly. Amazingly, we’re never taught how to have healthy communication in a relationship. So, we do what we’ve learned in our families, which often isn’t helpful, or we just wing it. Either way is a high-risk…
< Read More >The Courage of Bipolar People
Imagine that you were told you might need medication and psychotherapy for the rest of your life. And that the side effects of your medication may be difficult to handle. And if you didn’t do that, your life may get out of control. That, without any treatment, you will have problems with friends and family,…
< Read More >For Unmarried Couples Living Together (Or Planning To)
How times have changed. I know you’ve noticed it, but here are some statistics. According to the U.S. Census, for all young adults aged 25 to 34 in 1970, 82% of them were living with a spouse. By 2018 this had dropped to 40%. Also, for the same age group, less than 1% were living…
< Read More >Rethink Your Job And Career
A job and career are not a compartmentalized chapter of a person’s life. A career is inextricably linked to life and is an integral part of it. Career issues that arise for people can easily be rooted in your personal life and your personal life may have career implications. You must be aware of the…
< Read More >Your Pandemic Trauma
You have been traumatized by COVID-19. For the last two years, you have experienced a constant overwhelming threat. Everyone on the planet has been affected. How has it affected you? It’s been like a long-term natural disaster. Imagine the chronic stress of living in a hurricane for two years. And we can’t make sense of…
< Read More >Are you hooked on social media?
Social media sites are not your friend. They want to hook you and they want you to stay hooked. They use every psychological trick they can to make you think you have control when you really don’t. Our “always on” culture is toxic. We are hyper-focused on doing instead of being. We feed into the…
< Read More >Strengthen Your Relationship
In your relationship, do you find yourselves: Repeating the same fight over and over again with seemingly no hope for resolution. Losing interest in your partner and heightened curiosity in some outside person. Anxious and jealous because one partner is trying to be more independent than the other. Doubting whether the relationship will actually last…
< Read More >Finding Meaning in Your Life – Part 2
In my previous blog, I explained the meaning of Meaning and why it’s important. Now let’s look at how you can find it. Where do I find Meaning? How do I do I find Meaning? Where do you begin to get your head around this elusive concept? I suggest a focus on three areas. If…
< Read More >Find Meaning In Your Life – Part 1
I would wager that most of us, at one time or another, have asked ourselves one or more of the following questions. Why am I here? Where am I going? What is life all about? What is my purpose in life? What makes life worth living? All of these questions have a common thread. They…
< Read More >Radical Faith: Finding Your North Star
Let’s start out by looking at the words I chose for the title. Radical sounds good in a title. It makes you think it’s something new. Something fresh. It’s eye catching. Radical means extreme, fanatic, zealot, militant, farthest removed from the ordinary or average. These words are not very comforting. So, what am I doing…
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