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Christmas holidays can be the best of times or the worst of times. For many, it’s both—a season of great food, family, and gifts mixed with enough stress to push you right over the edge. Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays tend to magnify both the blessings and the problems in our lives....
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Going through your parents’ divorce is one of the most tragic experiences you can go through. Unfortunately, it’s become such a common occurrence, it is easy to think you’re supposed to act like it’s no big deal, even though you feel like you’re dying inside. In an earlier...
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It’s so hard to be honest with ourselves and others about the effects we feel when our parents break-up. That is because our parent’s divorce is devastating. We naturally put up walls, which are filled with denial, silence, and a certain distance between us and others. Yet, these techniques...
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For a long time I have wanted to blog about what to do when your family is broken up by divorce. I have taken literally thousands of calls from teenagers and young adults whose whole lives have been rearranged by their parent’s divorce. Getting over your parent’s divorce is never easy, in...
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It’s been a difficult series of blogs to write about the various kinds of abuse. I’ve talked about physical, sexual, and verbal/emotional abuse. There is one more kind of abuse I’d like to address before concluding next week with a detailed list of how you can learn to deal with abuse...
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I have been blogging on the extremely important topic of how to get along with your parents. So many teenagers and young adults live their lives in total chaos, mostly because of the volatility of the relationships they have with their parents. Every person deserves to have a place of love and safety...
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Last week I started blogging about how to get along with your parents. This is not an easy thing to do because no one is perfect, including your parents. In fact, you have come to the realization your parents are in many ways flawed and have failed you many times. Nonetheless, as I said last week, I...
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Nothing has a greater impact on our lives than our families. The family is the most powerful unit of society, influencing and shaping every man, woman and child for good or for bad. Unfortunately, there is plenty of pain in families. In fact, people are more profoundly hurt by those in their own family...
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Last week I began a blog about how to respect yourself. This is an extremely important topic that cuts to the core of some incredibly deep issues many people face. When you don’t like or love yourself, much less respect yourself, you will always find a way to live your life blaming other people...
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In my previous blog we began to tackle the difficult but extremely important subject of forgiveness. Forgiving others who have harmed us is one of the most important things we will ever do. The happiness of our lives, or lack of it, rises and falls on whether we, by an act of our will, choose to forgive...
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Let’s talk about one of the most important keys to your happiness. It is a subject people talk about, but few understand or practice. Let’s talk about forgiving others who have hurt you. There's probably not a person in the world who does not need to forgive someone. As well, there is...
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Finding someone to love who loves you in return is difficult. Learning how to deal with conflicts within that relationship can be extremely painful, as well. But it’s entirely different when, for some reason, you discover your parent(s) strongly disapprove of the person you are dating. It can make...