Every relationship goes through seasons.
Some couples come to therapy feeling disconnected. Others arrive in the middle of a crisis. Many simply want to strengthen what they already have.
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Where Did You Grow Up?
Who Is Your Backstop?
I never played competitive baseball, only sandlot. And it wasn’t the kind of baseball you see in the movie “Sandlot.” At least in the movie, they had actual bases, an outfield, and a backstop. The guy who played catcher even had catcher’s equipment!
No, we played sandlot baseball in an open field. We marked off running lanes to the bases usually made of whatever we could find. We made a line in the grass to represent the pitcher's mound. Home plate was just a space marked out with our tennis shoes. And there was no backstop.
Someone's Watching
Sunny Side Market was where I bought my football cards. Lincoln Street Elementary, just down the road and around the corner, is where I went to school. In the middle of the second grade, we moved from a small rural community to the booming metropolis of Red Bluff, California with its 8,000 people! This was 1966, and I was so scared on my first day at my new school, I ran back home and threw myself on the bed. “I don’t want to go to school!”
Desire
What if the longing for perfect weather, deeper rest, or more beauty isn’t selfish—but sacred? This reflection challenges the idea that desiring “more” means being flawed or spoiled. Instead, it explores how our deepest cravings might actually reflect something divine: a desire to be known, to experience fullness, and to live into the image we were created in. Maybe the problem isn’t that we want too much—maybe we don’t desire enough.
When Hurting Helps
A sharp moment between a parent and child becomes an unexpected lesson in grace. When the words “I forgive you” are offered without excuse or dismissal, they reveal the quiet power of true kindness over surface-level niceness. This reflection explores how pain—though uncomfortable—can be a doorway to growth, healing, and deeper connection.
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Mothers
As I’ve sat with numerous men and women, listening as they tell their stories, there’s been a recurring theme…mothers. I find it a little ironic considering the amount of statistics you can easily find on the importance of fathers and their role in a child’s life. However, when we look at those statistics and see the higher rates of substance abuse, school drop out rates, suicide, etc., there is no doubt about the crucial part dads play.
Discovering EMDR: A Path to Healing Trauma
Have you ever heard of EMDR? You’re not alone if you haven’t. For many, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) sounds like a bunch of words mixed together and it can feel pretty ambiguous on what it is exactly. For you Star Wars fans out there, it might sound akin to when Obi-Wan used the force to convince those stormtroopers to let them pass. However, EMDR is actually a powerful evidence-based therapy that has helped many people heal from trauma and emotional distress.
The Other Side of Trauma
One powerful, yet simple, way to reduce anxiety and stress is the practice of embodiment. Embodiment moves us away from or out of the overwhelming swell of thought and more substantially into bodily awareness. We do this by intentional progressive transition through our five senses (touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight) to calm the mind.
Come Just As You Are
Five Ways to Calm the Mind
One powerful, yet simple, way to reduce anxiety and stress is the practice of embodiment. Embodiment moves us away from or out of the overwhelming swell of thought and more substantially into bodily awareness. We do this by intentional progressive transition through our five senses (touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight) to calm the mind.
Processing Anxious Thoughts
Situationships
Situationship. We’ve heard the term before. It’s a fancy name we’ve given to a not so glamorous approach to dating, and sometimes even marriage. In the past it’s been referred to as friends with benefits or maybe a fling. But as with anything, a new generation has come along, slapped a new label on it and ta da…you have the awkward in between friends but not in a relationship, situationship. It’s sex with no real commitment. Vulnerability with the lack of emotional intimacy.
The Journey Home from Sexual Brokenness
Most people are repelled by the thought of being “addicted” to anything, especially to sex or pornography. It makes us want to hide. We want to change the subject or point the finger to someone else.
That word “addict” images dirty, uncontrollable, sexual thoughts and behavior that we don’t want to be associated with.
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How To Choose a Therapist
Choosing a therapist may feel like a mix between looking for a primary physician and going on a date. One you hope you only have to see once, and the other, you hope you’ll be able to see for a long time. Whichever it is for you, congrats on making a step toward your own health! It’s scary, but it’s incredibly important. Here are a few things to consider as you look for a therapist to join you on your path toward healing.
The Heart of the Father
There’s something in that phrase that explains itself. There is a feeling and a longing that wells up in our souls when we hear it. “The Heart of the Father”. Our hearts reach out for something that we either had as children and want more of, or missed out on and deeply long for, but never really put words to. “The Heart of the Father”.