Please note: There is no judgement on my part for people who live counter to what I’m proposing. And I assume there’ll be some judgement from others to me, but not from you because if you’re reading this you’re clearly a wonderful person who would never do that. One of the biggest mistakes … [Read more...]
A Letter for my Daughter when She Turns 16 (15 years from now)
Please Note: For my daughter's first birthday my wife "asked" me to write a letter we can give her when she turns sixteen. Hopefully this is a letter I can hand to her directly and not my wife's way of preparing to find a way to get my life insurance. My life has rarely made sense, especially … [Read more...]
Happy Easter
Today I won't be posting a normal blog because I'm too busy celebrating the most important day in history; the day death was defeated, and we were set free because Jesus rose from the grave. Like many others, I tend to take the idea of Jesus dying on the cross for granted because I've heard the … [Read more...]
I Saw Something Incredibly Beautiful (A Post Leading into Easter)
The other day I had Youtube playing in the background and it selected this song for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwgWbIOt0ko. I highly recommend checking it out, especially starting at the 2:29min mark because the joy of the band and audience amazed me. Even if I was part of a different … [Read more...]
Why Someone Will Choose Work Over Their Family?
Hi, my name is Chad, and I am a recovering workaholic: (audience... at least the nice ones) “Hi Chad.” As a workaholic, trying to relax is generally more stressful for me than working; that makes total sense. But I’m a doer. I come from a family of doers, which is fantastic... and terrible... so … [Read more...]
Dealing with Victim Mentalities (which sucks)
Here’s the question I keep being faced with the last couple weeks: Are they being the victim or playing the victim? In my book Emotional Sex: Making good relationships great, I point out that we want to be the victor and not the victim, we want to do what we can to help ourselves and not just act … [Read more...]
Let People Suffer (This isn’t as mean as it sounds)
When I was a youth pastor I ran a mission trip to Los Angeles (I knew how to pick places to serve). It was through www.csm.org, which is a wonderful organization. We spent a week serving in soup kitchens and food banks, and afterwards we celebrated by going to Disneyland (I definitely knew how to … [Read more...]
7 Tips to Help in Tough Times
Life is... something. One minute you think you have everything in control and you feel confident, and the next minute you get a phone call or accident that knocks you on you keister. As a therapist, I’m regularly meeting people who are on their butts because they’ve been knocked down... nothing … [Read more...]
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