In my clinical practice, I often work with people whose parents got divorced when they were children. I hear many different stories about what it was like to be a kid growing up in a home with two people they loved, who were often at great odds with each other. The arguing was often a…
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“This is a moment of great suffering. Suffering is part of my life. May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I give myself the compassion I need.” (Kristin Neff) It’s probably a fair statement to say that many of us may be feeling some level of trauma or stress right about now.…
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“Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, what God has ready for those who love Him” 1 Corinthians 2: 6-10 Prayer is a relationship with God. It is down to earth conversation with God as if God were sitting right next to us listening, caring, and speaking to us just the way a friend…
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At the time that we get married, none of us ever expects that we will get divorced. In fact, many of us likely believed that being married Catholic somehow afforded us extra protection that we would never end up getting divorced. We took our Catholic vows seriously. Through the good times and bad, we never…
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In 1995, Daniel Goleman’s NY Times Bestseller book “Emotional Intelligence” broke new ground. Raising our awareness about the many ways to nurture and strengthen our emotional intelligence, the book and the topic provide a lot of food for thought. That said, it still seems to me that as a culture and as people, we…
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No one ever expects to get separated or divorced when they get married. Especially if you were married as a Catholic or as a Christian in church, you took that extra step as a way of solidifying your marriage in the eyes of God and the larger Christian community. You took the solemn vow…
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