In today’s technological age, we are bombarded with information. In the past, our main concerns were the issues pertaining to our families and our communities. With the advent of the internet and 24-hour news, we have access to information about events around the country and...
You’ve probably already seen it somewhere – May is Mental Health Awareness month. Apparently it’s been designated that since 1949. I had no idea there was any such thing until I became a therapist. Actually, I had very little concept of mental health until I...
As human beings we are constantly in a changing state, whether we intentionally choose to, or it is a natural part of our lives; change is always present. From being a baby to being an adult, going to school to then going to work, or...
This time of year lends itself to thinking about change. Falling leaves and cooler temps (in most northern hemisphere places) presage that seasonal change that some of us have been looking forward to for months and some of us have been dreading. There have been...
Stress is a topic on everyone’s mind. It has been for a while, but it’s even more so now it seems. If you have children in school, you might be stressing over them masking, or not masking, or whether you’ll have to figure out how...
New beginnings come in all shapes and sizes. They come with varied circumstances and causes. Some of them we anticipate with a sense of excitement and possibility, and some arrive with difficulties and pain we never see coming. Not all new beginnings are ones that...
I have the pleasure and honor of preaching at a local church this Sunday. The Scripture reading is two stories in one, about a father with a deathly ill daughter and an older woman with a seemingly incurable ailment that had ruined her life. (This...