by Rev. Dr. Thaeda Franz | Mar 16, 2020 | Keeping Relationships Healthy, Relationships
In the Work I Have Done with Couples, I Have Seen People Tend to Give Love in the way They Want to Receive it. I call it the “I-Think-Love-Is-Pizza-But-You-Keep-Giving-Me-Broccoli” problem. Person A in the couple thinks, “You show you love me when you give me pizza....
by Rev. Dr. Thaeda Franz | Aug 14, 2019 | Keeping Relationships Healthy, Relationships
Several years ago, I was conducting research related to my dissertation. I was studying the experiences of Latinx single mothers experiencing poverty, wanting to know what their lives were like so that the social services community could serve them better. The primary...
by Daniel Derrer | Apr 16, 2019 | Christian Counseling, Keeping Relationships Healthy, Relationships
Empathic meeting involves not just listening and sitting with another’s life crisis, stressors, or pathology, but with their striving in the process. It’s those ‘micro-moments’ when frustration, misunderstanding or hopelessness invades the space between us,...
by Bethanie Stevenson | Mar 17, 2019 | Keeping Relationships Healthy
We are in relationship. We have kids. We are focused on career. Don’t forget self-care! I don’t remember when I started to ignore her. Maybe it was somewhere between my undergrad degree and the piles of dirty laundry. Maybe she was forgotten during one of those...
by Bethanie Stevenson | Mar 6, 2019 | Keeping Relationships Healthy
Making a Mission Statement to Make a Healthy Family. Studies show that successful businesses start with a mission; a set of standards and ideals that orient each person on a team toward a common set of goals. Let’s take Apple Inc., arguably one of the most successful...
by Bethanie Stevenson | Feb 15, 2019 | Keeping Relationships Healthy, Relationships
Think back to the beginning of your relationship with your spouse or significant other. How did we connect with one another? For some, we spent hours chatting over coffee or on the phone. Others, we choose to be engaged in activities and events we would never consider...
