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…
< Read More >The Upside of Isolation
As I think we all know, the world has changed permanently. And with that, each of us has changed permanently as well. And no one knows what the future holds. That could be both a scary thought and possibly an exhilarating one depending upon how you feel about change. This a unique time both in…
< Read More >5 Things to Stop Right Now and Their Antidotes
Trying to Please Everyone – Please Yourself First People pleasers share a common outcome. They’re miserable. That’s because they neglect themselves. They’re so busy making others happy that they don’t even know their own needs. This obviously makes it impossible to get the needs fulfilled. How about this – meet your own needs first and…
< Read More >The Five Remembrances
How do I have meaning and purpose in my life? How do I stop worrying so much? How do I know what’s really important to me? How do I keep my focus on reality instead of delusion? These are big questions with no easy answers. One way to search for the answers is to remove…
< Read More >Stress in America
We Americans are very stressed right now. I came upon a press release today and after reading it I got my hands on the report itself. After reading that, I knew I had to share it with you. What are we stressed about? A survey taken in 2019 was just published by the American Psychological…
< Read More >The 5 Freedoms
The counselor Virginia Satir was one of the founders of the family therapy movement in the 1950’s. Her groundbreaking work on how to provide good therapy to complicated families has endured through the present day. One of the best contributions she made is called The 5 Freedoms. They represent what everyone has the freedom to…
< Read More >A Broken Trust Can be Repaired – Action Phase
In two previous blog posts I describe the first two phases of what happens when a trust is broken. They are the Discovery phase and the Meaning phase. If a couple has made it this far, it’s now time to actually attempt the trust building process. You must play the long game. I think this…
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