Pre-marital counselors are often the first to get a behind-the-scenes view into the way fiancés interact. After all, seeking an outside perspective is the reason couples seek these types of consultations, even if they’re very sure they are right for each other. A...
Meet Mandy Harvey! Every now and then a great story comes along, and this is one of them. Mandy Harvey wanted to be a singer her whole life – it was her life long dream. She was studying for that dream when her life made a major turn. At the young age of 18, she...
“Above all else, guard your heart.” This instruction from Proverbs 4:23 took on new meaning as I read Andy Stanley’s “Enemies of the Heart” and I was challenged to deal with the four negative emotions that attack my (and your) heart: guilt, anger, greed, and jealousy....
I recently returned from a training about the use of Meditation and Mindful Awareness, the practice of maintaining a moment by moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, and environment. It was explored in depth as a method for helping clients to stay present and reduce...
There’s been a lot of buzz in psychological studies lately in regards to love. Psychologist Arthur Aron researched how asking and answering certain questions can actually cause people to fall in love. In fact, Aron has compiled a 36-question list, broken down into 4...
