Life Challenges • Gender identity Affirming your daughter's gender identity A mother can affirm the gender of her teenage daughter both by the example she sets and in the relationship she forms... Article
Life Challenges • Gender identity How do we make sense of gender in today’s culture? With the prevalence of “gender options” in our culture it continues to be a complicated topic among young people. The... Article
Life Challenges • Gender identity How to respond when your child wishes they were a different gender First of all, try not to overreact. It is important to listen to your child and set your own anxiety aside for the mo... Article
Life Challenges • Gender identity Q&A: What is your perspective on cross-dressing? The most important thing we can say about gender dysphoria in general and cross-dressing in particular is that they a... Article
Life Challenges • Gender identity Q&A: Does my tomboyish daughter need counselling? Based on what you’ve told us, we’d suggest that you need to take a closer look at why your daughter seems to relate m... Article
Life Challenges • Homosexuality Same-sex attraction and my journey with the Church It’s not that homosexuality was actively condemned by the church – it was simply pushed under the rug. Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Affirming the unique person God designed your child to be Parents should affirm a child’s God-given design, not stereotypes of gender. A boy, for example, may be more interest... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Child's sexual orientation in doubt You must commit to patience, prayer and perseverance. You may shed rivers of tears, but you must not allow animosity ... Article
Life Challenges • Faith building Understanding and healing the mother wound When this mother-child attachment is traumatically interrupted, there is emotional pain that produces consequences wi... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Words that bruise: Are you emotionally abusive? Experts tell you what emotional abuse is, bring you inside the mind of a perpetrator and shed some light on how to br... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How to cope when your child is born with a disability What do you do with the swell of emotion? How do you handle the news and still operate as a good parent of a newborn?... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage The benefits of losing control in your marriage When husbands or wives attempt to control their spouse, they are placing themselves in the position of God, squelchin... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Living with anxiety: What you and your spouse need to know In a marriage where only one spouse lives with anxiety, it can be difficult to navigate this dynamic together. How wi... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Autism in marriage Because of the powerful guidance and support I received from Stephanie Holmes and others, I am able to offer these ti... 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 • Boundaries How to deal wisely with manipulative people God won’t manipulate, control or coerce human beings into obedience. And neither should we. Here's what to do if some... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage How to know if you're in an emotionally abusive relationship Three types of emotional abuse can be difficult to recognize: gaslighting, retaliation and projection. Article