8 Simple Self-Care Practices to Support Your Well-Being Self-care does not have to be complicated. You do not need a perfect morning routine, an expensive wellness plan, or several uninterrupted hours every day. You do not need to become a different person before you are allowed to feel ...read more
Boundaries and Self-Care: Why Support Matters
Self-Care Includes Boundaries, Support, and Self-Compassion Self-care is often presented as a quiet morning, a relaxing bath, a walk in nature, or a few minutes of mindfulness. Those things can be helpful. But for many professionals and leaders, self-care must include something less comfortable ...read more
Mental Health Checklist: 6 Self-Care Questions
A Simple Mental Health Checklist for Practicing Self-Care You may be very good at checking on everyone else. You check in with your team. You follow up with clients, colleagues, family members, or employees. You monitor deadlines, solve problems, and make decisions. You keep moving, even when ...read more
Does Premarital Counseling Work? What the Research Actually Shows
Does Premarital Counseling Actually Work? Here's What the Research Says Almost every couple who sits down across from me is wondering the same thing, even if they never say it out loud: is this actually going to help us, or are we just going through the motions before the wedding? It's a fair ...read more
The Rise of Online Sports Betting — And Why Gambling Belongs in This Conversation Too
The Rise of Online Sports Betting — And Why Gambling Belongs in This Conversation Too A few years ago, gambling addiction and marriage rarely came up together in premarital work. Now it comes up regularly, and I don't think that's a coincidence. Since a 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the door ...read more
The Secrets That Quietly Break Marriages — And why precommitment therapy helps
The Secrets That Quietly Break Marriages — And why precommitment therapy helps Over the years, I've sat with more couples than I can count in the aftermath of a hidden addiction coming out — a drinking problem that had been minimized for years, a pornography habit that had quietly become ...read more
Sliding vs. Deciding: Why How You Got Here Matters
Sliding vs. Deciding: Why How You Got Here Matters I ask a lot of couples how they ended up living together, or engaged, or committed to each other for the long haul. What surprises me is how often the honest answer is some version of "it just kind of happened." A lease was ending. A move made ...read more
The Argument That Predicts Divorce Isn’t the One You Think
If you ask most couples what they think will cause the biggest fights down the road, they'll usually guess in-laws, or how often to see friends, or who does the dishes. Almost nobody guesses money — and that surprises me every time, because the research keeps saying otherwise. In fact, money ...read more
The Tools Every Couple Needs to Start Well
The Tools Every Couple Needs to Start Well For a lot of my career, premarital counseling lived almost entirely inside church walls. These days, however, many couples are interested in non-religious premarital counseling as well. I understand why — I spent years as a pastoral counselor myself, ...read more
EMDR Deep Dive: Moving Past the Limits of the “Therapy Hour”
Healing Without the Interruption: How EMDR Intensives Accelerate Trauma Recovery I have been an EMDR therapist for almost 10 years now. When I first trained in this modality, I had incredibly high hopes—and the more I utilize EMDR, the more I love it. Witnessing the profound transformations my ...read more
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