The Virtue of a Life Lived Small: A New Year's Challenge in the Wake of Sandy Hook

The Virtue of a Life Lived Small: A New Year’s Challenge in the Wake of Sandy Hook

The New Year is upon us and it is time for us to participate in the yearly tradition of setting new goals and listing our…

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The Great Christmas Giveaway: Contentment and Closing Thoughts

The Great Christmas Giveaway: Contentment and Closing Thoughts

Christmas is almost here and I want to give a brief update on my “Christmas Giveaway”. Through exams (both ones I graded and ones I…

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You're Not All That

You’re Not All That

I’ll never forget the day that I realized just how real my blind spots were. If you would have asked me before that day whether…

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Home for Christmas: Surviving Holiday Family Dynamics

Home for Christmas: Surviving Holiday Family Dynamics

The holiday season is upon us and whether you will stay near or go far chances are that you will be spending time with loved…

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The Christ Carrier

The Christ Carrier

About ten years ago I was both a new mom and a new therapist wandering in the desert that is known as Fresno, California. I…

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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

I have a confession to make. I have always struggled over the way we talk about thanksgiving (the attitude, not the holiday). I am not…

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The Great Christmas Giveaway, Days 5-8: The Riley's, New Hope, and Living to Tell

The Great Christmas Giveaway, Days 5-8: The Riley’s, New Hope, and Living to Tell

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I have been wondering how I will keep up this little self-challenge tomorrow (Day 8) since we will be with family…

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The Great Christmas Giveaway, Days 2-4: Recycling and New Rules

The Great Christmas Giveaway, Days 2-4: Recycling and New Rules

Only I would start a challenge like “The Great Christmas Giveaway” on THIS week coming up on THIS weekend.  My husband, who is a pastor,…

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THE GREAT CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY!!!

THE GREAT CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY!!!

So this is probably not what you think it will be. I was a little devious sneaky misleading mischievous with the title of this blog…

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The Key to Locked Doors

The Key to Locked Doors

One of a few posts in a short series on thanksgiving. It is so easy to get stuck, to feel trapped, to feel hemmed in…

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Looking For A Sign

Looking For A Sign

The first in a short series of posts on thanksgiving. Every adult likely has a story about the time they got in trouble the WORST. …

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For What It Is Worth: Gottman's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

For What It Is Worth: Gottman’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Therapy is way more than a toolbox of intervention. Information alone cannot replace professional help. However, information can be very powerful. So, for what it’s…

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The Gift of Darkness

The Gift of Darkness

Satisfaction versus hunger, it is one of Scripture’s many paradoxes. On the one hand, there is a certain satisfaction or contentment that we are expected…

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Get. Moving.

Get. Moving.

In the second chapter of Deuteronomy: Then the LORD said to me, “You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn…

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The Epic Challenge

The Epic Challenge

I have what I think is a fairly bold proclamation to make. I am done with the fairy tale metaphor. I don’t want it. I…

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