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Kids and Pain
Emotionally anchoring the little ones with our soothing voices, gentle touches, and safe presence gives them a sense that we caregivers can tolerate and be with them in their distress, setting them up to trust us for an emotionally supported and connected adolescence.
Kids, Soul Care & Covid-19
The goal isn’t perfectly attached and attuned parenting; it’s simply to adjust a few things so that you can be more present throughout the day and in new ways.
No Guarantees
What lies before me is the undeniable contrast I have now experienced as a result of the pandemic. Contrasts related to time and its lack of guarantees.
Searching for God
Where is God? Where are the anchors? In my own process I am finding the only pathway to God in all of this is to sit with the heaviness and grief, cry through the overwhelm, and journal every thought, doubt, and fear.
A Missing Piece
. . . there can be some perpetual gridlocks and unfinished business couples need to confront before the relationship can feel like there is any hope for it ever being a place of safety. What can keep a couple from finding freedom and safety in one another?
Out of the Negative Cycle
Believe it or not, a well-researched road map exists that guides couples back to places of safety, intimacy, and connection (even after affairs and other difficult betrayals).
Emotional Presence
It takes loads of inertia to get us out of our ruts and moving in a better direction. Unfortunately, sometimes the only motivating factor is a partner who has had enough.
Attachment & Marriage
The bottom line question that each partner wants to have answered in both word and action is, “Are you there for me?”
The Marriage Puzzle: Sex
Acts of physical intimacy devoid of emotional safety and connection further a relationship’s movement toward devastation.