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Not Just Random Letters
Many years ago, I got a flyer in the mail advertising a “come check us out” graduate program at a local college. My husband and I had discussed my going back to graduate school a couple of years earlier when we lived in Chicago. The timing just didn’t seem right....
Overcoming Depletion in 5 Steps
This past fall I had the wonderful opportunity to sit with a dear friend that I have not spent much time with lately. She conveyed the exhaustion she was experiencing in her life and how that was starting to prevent her from being present in the lives of her family...
Dating is Not the same as Marriage
I was sitting with a colleague of mine the other day discussing the number of couples that walk in and through our doors looking to either divorce or improve their marriage. As we generally discussed this, we discovered that there have been several who acted as if...
3 Steps to Dealing with Grief
Grief & loss are two of those things in our world that does not discriminate. It chooses its victims at random and without warning. Maybe you can relate to some of these scenarios: Susy lost her husband last week to cancer. They were married 35 years and have 4...
Surviving the Dark: A Lesson from Holy Week
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to listen to a great author and speaker, John Ortberg, at a conference. He spoke about the three days of the death of Christ. Actually, he spoke more about the second day, the day where everything was still, quiet, dark. He...
Building Community in Your 4 Walls
It is a battle to keep families connected in our technological savvy culture. Too many kids are plugged-in to their electronics and plugged out of their relationships. Even as adults, we sometimes prefer our superficial relationships on Twitter and Facebook to...
Quiet Anger
We all know at the deep center of our beings that relationships are important. We all strive, functional or not, healthy or not, to land ourselves in relationship with others where we feel known…. where we can be ourselves and know, the other person isn’t going to...
Quiet Anger: How We Got Here
Last week, we discussed what quiet anger looks like. If you would like a refresher, you can read that post here. Now that we have an idea of what quiet anger looks like and how it sabotages our relationships, let’s look at how we got here. How We Got Here Each of us...
