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Is He/She Worth It?

July 27, 2020

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Way back in 1983, Billy Joel released an album titled “An Innocent Man.”  The title track was a ballad in which the singer is committing to being a safe and healing person for a woman who has been badly wounded from past relationships.  Essentially, he recognizes that how she guards herself in the relationship is […]

Permission

June 16, 2020

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You’re an adult.  You can do what you want.  You don’t need permission. Many partners bristle when they feel that they have to get permission from their mate to do things they want to do.  I wish we had a better word than permission.  It seems to imply a parent-child sort of relationship.  I don’t […]

Delighted In

May 25, 2020

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“He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”  Zeph. 3:17 The majority of my clients are fellow Christians who sought out a Christian therapist because their faith is an important part of their lives.  Between my role as a therapist […]

Forgiveness, The Best Boundary

June 24, 2019

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You keep carrying that anger, it will eat you up inside.  Don Henley, The Heart of the Matter Over the last 20 years, the term, boundaries, has worked its way into the vernacular.  The credit is in no small part to Cloud and Townsend’s series of books. At the most basic level, the concept is […]

A Therapist Looks At “Crazy Rich Asians”

January 25, 2019

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Since I neglected my blog so badly last year, I have fallen behind in applying a therapist’s view to the pop culture.  Let’s start the year playing some catch-up. As I thought about this post, I had several alternate working titles.  Among these were, “Rachel could do better,” “Run Away, Rachel!,” and “Don’t Marry a […]

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