Life Challenges • Marriage How childhood attachment impacts your marriage How well you bond in marriage is influenced by your childhood attachment with your parents. So while you're leaving y... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage To know and be known Here is the key: A marriage is built on trust, and vulnerability is required for trust to do its work. Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Identifying the emotional wounds we bring into marriage I’m glad that I have set down the baggage of betrayal, control and fear and replaced them with truth, faith and love ... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Why moms who struggle with anger need to be brave We need to take a good look at our anger, closely examining feelings we’d much rather deny and hide from. To make rea... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage When your spouse struggles with past trauma There is a struggle to understand the spouse’s hidden pain, triggers and sometimes seemingly irrational responses. Ho... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage She isn't the person I married: When the illusion of perfection is shattered Was your wife someone different before you got married? Has she changed for the worse over time? Article
Life Challenges • Trauma What does it take to be a foster/adoptive parent? 5 characteristics in becoming a trauma-competent healing parent What were some of those things that these parents learned along the way that so transformed them and their families? ... Article
Life Challenges • Faith building Understanding and healing the father wound The effect of a father wound is low self-esteem, a deep emotional pain inside and a performance orientation that make... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting The long road to reconciliation: Seeking harmony in strained family relationships The journey is difficult, and there’s no guarantee of reconciliation, but each woman is striving to live out the love... Article
Life Challenges • Family wounds Q&A: How can I get over not reconciling with my abusive dad? It’s always difficult to lose a family member, but the grieving process is even harder when we have unresolved issues... Article
Life Challenges • Family wounds Q&A: How can I ensure I don't replicate my parents' negative parenting style? The best way you can do this is by learning to forgive. As we’ve already indicated, this is something you need to do ... Article
Life Challenges • Family wounds What is a family of origin? The beliefs, values and rules of a family are passed down from one generation to the next through living life togethe... Article
Life Challenges • Trauma When family secrets come out: How to work through your feelings and find a way forward How you choose to process this new information can make all the difference: you want a healed heart, not a bitter one. Article
Life Challenges • Addiction Understanding sin's effect on intimacy Sin and its effects take many forms in our life. For some, this includes great brokenness in their ability to achieve... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How parental attachment determines a child's emotional health If you were offered a test that could predict how emotionally healthy your child will become, would you take the test... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Attachment: What adoptive families need to know Now, when I teach about attachment, I tell families that every adopted child has experienced a disrupted attachment. Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Healing the wounds of emotional abuse What follows are some general principles, gleaned from professional Christian counsellors, for breaking the cycle of ... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: How can I stop my sons from inheriting my husband's anger? If you want to help your boys, start by encouraging your husband to get some help with his anger problem. In other wo... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Breaking the cycle of divorce Unless children of divorce identify the false ideas their parents unknowingly planted and replace those ideas with Bi... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Q&A: Haunted by the past If you’re suffering from the fallout of your sexual past, here are some things you should bear in mind. Article