Choosing Love

I believe – with all my heart – that love is a choice. It’s a deliberate, conscious, endlessly repeated choice that must be made daily, hourly, and even (sometimes) minute-by-minute. Love can be fun, peaceful, scary, joyous, painful, effortless, or tiresome hard work – at different times, within the same context. It is the most […]

Previews and Reflections …

When You Don't Know Where to Start

Dear Reader, Have you ever had so much to say, and been so motivated to share, that you just didn’t know where to start? Well, that’s me – right now. A bounty of information is coming soon – with posts defining psychological treatment therapies, Christian integration strategies – plus genuine encouragement from research, practical applications, […]

Thinkin’ Things:

Defining Treatment and Picking Winners

Do you like dictionaries? There is something very satisfying about the precision, and clear boundaries set by a good definition. These sparse pronouncements can clarify, and expand our understanding of words. Sometimes they jar me, just enough off dead-center, to sense new layers of meaning. I can speculate and play with concepts – ‘Thinking Things’ […]

‘E’ Ticket – Wild Rides

Can We Validate Emotional Highs and Lows ?

Awareness of one’s thinking; mindfulness of one’s engagement in the physical ‘here-and-now’; and the ability to step back from experience enough to take an observers point of view. This skill can be developed. A good friend suggested that I actually  share it’s application in my own experience during a very difficult week. This, Dear Reader […]

The Key Is Awareness

How To Unlock Your Therapeutic Tool Kit

Staring at the white screen, she felt a buzz of anticipation and sensed sparks of ideas beginning to fire. ‘This is going to be great – at least I hope it will be. Awareness is an important topic. Where do I begin?” And the cursor continued to blink – at blank line, after line… You […]