Head Into Spring With a Spirit of Renewal
Springtime represents the start of something new, and the blossoming of nature. It’s a season of hopefulness and new beginnings. For many of us, a change in season inspires the mind to think...
View ArticleDiscovering Your True Needs in Life
It can be very difficult to determine what you consider a desire and a need in your life. When asked, you may give what you think should be the right answer instead of the truth. You may concede that...
View Article6 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationships
We constantly use relationships to determine our position in life. We observe the people around us and make decisions about who we are based on how we believe others perceive us. That’s why it’s...
View Article4 Ways to Support Your Young Adult
Young adults are still young into their twenties. Just how far into their twenties really becomes individual to each person. In general, young men mature later than young women. And life’s challenges...
View ArticleBind Your Happiness to God’s Approval
Over and over again, I have heard the anguished cry of someone saying to me, “But it’s not fair!” Often I cannot offer them anything more than agreement; their situation and what happened to them is...
View ArticleTaking a Multivitamin and Omega-3s
People today have pretty stressful lives. I know I do, with the demands of running The Center, writing and speaking, commitments to my faith community, to say nothing of being my wife’s husband and my...
View ArticleIs Your Child a Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic Learner?
Each child has a way of learning which resonates with them. What type is your child? Understanding how your child processes information (and even how you do, too) will help you tailor instruction to a...
View ArticleThe Problem with Disconnection and Isolation
Healthy people are growing people, and people do not grow healthy in isolation. We need each other for many reasons, including companionship, encouragement, support, feedback, and guidance. Because of...
View ArticleActions to Become a More Positive Person
The world continues to prove that it can be a challenging place for us to live and thrive among our fellow man. We don’t have to look far to find many areas of our society that can instill fear and...
View ArticleTriumph Over Trauma
When I founded The Center • A Place of HOPE over 35 years ago, I didn’t fully appreciate that almost all struggles and afflictions people have can be traced back to one thing – unresloved trauma....
View ArticleHow Shame Impacts Your Health
We’ve all laid awake in bed at night, replaying scenarios in our head. We think about things we could have done differently—what we should have said, how life might be better—if we had only put our...
View ArticleFind an Accountability Partner in Life
Have you ever felt that you were letting other people determine what kind of day you were going to have? If they were angry, you got angry. If they were happy, you jumped on the same happy wagon....
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