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Category Archives: Family Life
“God Is Your Father” – Good News or Bad?
If you’ve gone to church or read the Bible you’ve surely heard that God is your Father. You’re supposed to feel safe and secure knowing that. The thought of God as your Father is supposed to make you want to run into His arms with joy, knowing He will handle all your problems.
But does it really make you feel that way? Continue reading
Posted in Emotional and Mental Health, Family Life, Spiritual Life, Uncategorized
Tagged abuse, family, freedom, spiritual
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Show Highlights Week 7: Preparing for Parenthood
If you’re a parent, you know both the joys and the challenges that go along with parenthood. Parenting is perhaps the most important job in the world!
The challenges and joys of parenthood is the topic of our latest Dr Carol Show: the archived program is available here. During the program we mentioned several organizations/resources offering help to parents. Continue reading
Posted in Family Life, Resources and Links, Uncategorized
Tagged family, links, resources
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Racing Toward the Cliff, Fiscal or Otherwise
There’s so much talk about the “fiscal cliff” in the media recently.
As the laws currently stand our already-precarious financial situation in this country will become even worse come January 1, 2013.
Common sense and spiritual integrity mandate we each take a renewed personal responsibility for our own financial life. Continue reading
Posted in Emotional and Mental Health, Family Life
Tagged choice, decision, future, independence, responsibility
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Doctor, Doctor: Your Family of Origin
You can’t choose your parents. Or your brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins. If your family of origin was reasonably healthy you probably don’t think much about how you choose to relate to them.
But not all families are so healthy. It seems some significant measure of dysfunction is the norm in most families. Where you come from affects you. Continue reading
Posted in Emotional and Mental Health, Family Life, Marriage and Family Life
Tagged change, decision, family, forgiveness, healing, healthy, responsibility
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It’s Not Just About Me
“I’m not hurting anyone but myself.” “It’s a victim-less crime.” “It doesn’t matter what I do: nobody cares.” On the surface those statements may seem true, but they never are. Things we do, good and bad, affect others around us. We … Continue reading