Whether you’re in a pre-marital relationship or marriage, when your relationship works, it's amazing. Everything feels easier in life and you're full of energy and excitement. You feel supported and nurtured, as if nothing could knock...
The secular world in which we live is soaked in negativity. We are continually assaulted by negative messages that are discouraging and they condition us to see our glass perpetually empty and never full. As a result, we become very self-absorbed....
I'm often asked this question by both Catholics and non-Catholics. To put it simply, the use of the term, “Catholic therapist,” encompasses the scientific and spiritual approach that guides the work I do in helping people overcome their emotional...
Stress comes from many sources. It is highly stressful when a person delivers a wallop of emotional or physical pain to us (or someone we love). It then adds significantly more stress when we store that negativity and we don't let it go....
Death is an unavoidable and painful experience for the living. When someone dies the living have their own death experience. Regardless of how our loved ones die, we find it perhaps easier to comprehend their journey than our own by accepting...
The fields of psychology and traditional psychotherapy are often traced back to the works of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalytical methods. Actually, long before Freud, philosophers and scholars have addressed the needs of those suffering from mental...
Divorce. I have experienced it. I am a father of five - three boys with my first wife and two children with my current wife of over 20 years. I am also a therapist who has worked with hundreds of parents and children after divorce and can...
"An ugly truth is better than a beautiful lie" is an apt adage when discussing the authenticity of love. Love is not a feeling, nor can it be reduced to mere words. This is not to say that loving words do not matter, but those words must...
Spring to Summer is such a great time of the year to see that "love is in the air." It is the season of Weddings, Bridal Showers and Baby Showers. I merely look out my living room window and I see couples walking, riding bikes and pushing...