Life Challenges • Marriage Managing stress as a couple When you deal with stressful events in unhealthy ways, you create new problems in your health and relationships. Let’... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting First-baby stress in new dads Self-care for new dads barely gets a mention. And that can leave some new fathers unprepared for their transition to ... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage How to handle stress in marriage We gradually learned how to respond more effectively to each other when we experienced stress by using the Comfort Ci... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Working through worry and stress with your spouse In this time of unprecedented change, Kevin and I will likely face many worries. The temptation will be to allow anxi... Article
Life Challenges • Stress What's the difference between stress and burnout? Stress and burnout are terms that are often thrown around, but many people misunderstand what they really mean – and ... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: How do we handle our toddler's night terrors? Your job during a night terror is to sit tight through the seemingly interminable 10- to 30-minute ordeal. Hold your ... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting 7 tips for how to recover from toddler stage burnout If feel that you’re struggling to just survive, try fighting back with the seven following anti-burnout strategies. Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Loving your wayward child No matter the scenario, it can be a time of stress, anxiety and heartbreak. Here are 10 things a parent can do when t... Article
Life Challenges • Stress Being of help and seeking help in times of change Those who embrace change have an honest perspective of themselves and life. They see the process of adjustment as dev... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Protect yourself from marriage burnout The good news is that we have ways to fight quarantine fatigue and protect your marriage from burnout. Article
Life Challenges • Parenting The value of supportive friends as a single parent After my husband abandoned Janelle and me, four friends, with very different roles, met different needs, surrounded m... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Q&A: How do we decide if we should get engaged? In other words, we think it’s a good idea to place more stress on pre-engagement counselling than on pre-marital coun... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting A cry in the night: Dealing with nightmares, night terrors and more Night terrors have three common triggers – a fever, overtiredness or stress – and are most common in children ages th... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage How to manage conflict during the coronavirus Now that home has become the hub for work, school, church and play, you and your spouse are together all the time. Sp... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Fear and anxiety in children: What's normal, and what's not As a child matures, old fears are overcome, and new fears arise to take their place. Interestingly, children of simil... Article
Life Challenges • Trauma Understanding God’s heart for the traumatized The story of God’s people is permeated with examples of traumatic experiences, both on the community level (murder, f... 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