Is Your Child Struggling With Anxiety? How Anxiety in Children and Teens Negatively Impacts Their Education and Life
Are you worried about your child’s worrying? Have you noticed a change in your child? Maybe they’ve become more worried, clingy, or distant. Anxiety in children can show up in many ways and negatively impact your child’s experience at school, at home, with friends, or with extracurricular activities. Maybe there are certain topics they don’t want to talk about, or they look fearful when you ask about a specific teacher or friend. Or they’re afraid to talk to their teacher about their questions [...]
7 Tips for Surviving Infidelity
If you have been affected by infidelity or affairs, you have endured great pain. You need encouragement and support as you navigate a new path after learning your spouse was unfaithful to you. Healing is possible as you seek care from a Christian counselor, who can offer compassion, wisdom, and practical help.Healing from infidelity and affairs.Though you may be facing an intense storm right now, know that healing is possible. You didn’t ask for this problem, but God is ready and willing to help [...]
How to Help My Depressed Husband
Annie thought she might be living with a depressed husband, but she wasn’t sure. Her husband was usually mild-mannered, a pastor, and incredibly benevolent with everyone who knew him. But a few months into his new pastorate he was starting to act differently, especially at home. This is when Annie wondered if something in him had changed. It’s important for loved ones, especially spouses, to know the signs of depression. Has your husband’s mood changed? Does he seem like he is more irritable [...]
4 Tips for Improving Your Communication With Your Spouse
As a licensed marriage and family therapist, I’ve discovered four communication techniques that produce the quickest growth in the couples I work with – no matter how long they’ve been together. Are you talking like a parent to a child? One of the communication problems that couples seem to easily spot in themselves is knowing if they are talking to their spouse like a scolding parent, a child or a healthy adult. Imagine if one partner is scolding their spouse, something like: “Oh [...]
Signs of Anger Issues and How to Address Them
Anger is a normal emotion, especially when you witness or experience injustice. It becomes an issue only when your responses are disproportionate to the incidents that trigger them, it impacts your relationships, and/or it seems out of control. Studies have shown that uncontrolled anger can lead to cardiovascular disease, eating disorders, diabetes, and road accidents. Furthermore, it can disrupt your day-to-day life, jeopardize your relationships, create conflicts at work, cause harm to loved ones, and/or affect your mental health. Excessive anger can be [...]
How to Avoid Being an Impostor: Relationship Advice for Men
Relationships are a precious part of our everyday existence. Between your spouse, family members, friends, neighbors, work colleagues, fellow church members, or the guy at your local coffee shop that you interact with every weekday morning, your life, and the lives of everyone around you are replete with relationships. However, it is common for a man to feel like an impostor. Those relationships will vary as to whether they bring you joy or angst, whether you want to remain in them, and in [...]