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Life With a Purpose!: Keys to Intentional Living
By Jennifer DuBos, MA, LPC In all my therapy sessions, I ask my clients to answer three basic questions: 1.) Who am I? 2.) What do I believe and why? and 3.) What is my purpose? The reason I ask these questions is to help my clients determine how intentionally they are living their lives. What continually amazes me is how few people are able to answer these questions, and [...]
Parenting Article: SUMMER!
me in the warm weather, vacationing, summer camps, swimming at the pool and LOTS OF FREE TIME! Free time can be a good thing as it provides an opportunity to relax, spend time with friends, or take care of things around the house; however, it can also be a difficult time for children, adolescents and their parents. For everyone, the lack of structure can be a welcomed relief, but also a challenge for many.
One big happy family…NOT: Creating harmony in your stepfamily
As if the challenges of traditional family life were not enough, those of a step or blended family are even more compounded. However, if care is taken to acknowledge and work through these differences, a healthy, functional, happy stepfamily can emerge.
Pornography Danger
By: Mitch Young During a recent training seminar for my full-time position as an Intact Family Case Manager, I was reminded why pornography is such an important issue to tackle through my job as a professional counselor. My fellow trainees and I were sitting in a room discussing various cases that could potentially be safety issues within the family. As the case examples filed through, we eventually came upon a [...]
I wish my spouse would just listen to me!: Tools for listening and being heard
This is one the most common complaints I hear as a marriage counselor. There are very few things in this world that are as infuriating as not being heard. Not being heard makes us feel unloved, uncared for and disrespected. When we argue with our spouse and they don’t listen to us we feel demeaned and unimportant. Worse off we get angry at our spouse for being a selfish narcissistic jerk!!!