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“But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret.” (Matt 6:6).Your inner room is a figure of speech for your innermost self, your deepest self where you are alone with God. By virtue of our Baptism and through receiving the Eucharist, we believe that God…
I think it’s safe to say that we’ve all experienced a head vs. heart conflict. We have times when we know the choice we want to make, the choice that feels right to our heart, yet for reasons that are unclear we go a different way. Our head leads us to our rational side, where our…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Through many years of working with individuals and couples as both a psychotherapist and coach, no issue is more compelling to be resolved than that of healing emotional abuse from parents. That said, healing emotional abuse from parents is also complicated by the fact that so many of you who need to heal, are unaware…
The onset of depression after a medical diagnosis is common and even clearly understandable as a first reaction. And, it is important that you meet your medical diagnosis from the start with openness of mind, body, heart, and most importantly, Spirit. In fact, the thought process you engage in and the belief system you…
Divorce is a multi-layered process that is ranked at the top of the list of stressful life events. Although divorce is a frequently practiced, socially acceptable event, there are some specific steps toward midlife divorce recovery that are important for you to be aware of as you begin your journey toward healing. Step # 1…
“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…