How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for Your Teens
By Jill Savage In This Series, this article focuses on how to quit watching porn including: Effects of Porn Addiction on a Teen Brain, How Do You Respond to Your Child’s Suspected Porn Use?, How Porn Affects Your Child’s Future, and How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for Your Teens. Pornography is pervasive, […]
Healthy Individuals Create Healthy Marriages
By Jill Savage Because the health of marriage is ultimately determined by individual health, we need to be diligent about emotional, mental, physical and spiritual fitness. Standing in the kitchen, I heard the text notification on my phone. When I read the message from my friend, my heart dropped. We had both walked through […]
Warning Signs that Your Spouse Has Mental Health Issues
Warning Signs that Your Spouse Has Mental Health Issues By Julie Holmquist What Do I Do if My Spouse Is Acting Strange? Malik* noticed that his wife, Jade, was being strangely antagonistic to their children, and he wondered why her hands were always red and dry. After discussing the issue with his doctor, Malik […]
How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for Your Teens
How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for Your Teens In This Series, this article focuses on how to quit watching porn including. Effects of Porn Addiction on a Teen Brain How Do You Respond to Your Child’s Suspected Porn Use? How Porn Affects Your Child’s Future How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for […]
Recovering Emotionally From a Traumatic Experience
Depression and Suicide in the Elderly By Roberta Rand Caponey How can I find healing from the effects of disaster and trauma? Over the past month our community has been devastated by a terrible flood. The impact to my family has included the loss of our home, interruption of work and school, loss of income, […]
Depression and Suicide in the Elderly
Depression and Suicide in the Elderly By Roberta Rand Caponey Old age is one of life’s thresholds that few of us in midlife are emotionally and psychologically prepared for. Harold is 86, a retired lineman for the phone company. His wife of 60 years died last year, leaving him alone in the home they shared […]
Understanding Childhood Trauma Changes Everything
Understanding Childhood Trauma Changes Everything By Jayne Schooler Children who have been in foster care, like Susie were wounded most in the context of interpersonal relationships, and they will heal only in the context of healthy, nurturing, interpersonal relationships. Every Tuesday afternoon, seven-year-old Susie comes to Fire-Up, an after-school program at a church in her […]
Lifetime Love: Advice from Couples Who Made Marriage Last
Lifetime Love: Advice from Couples Who Made Marriage Last By Greg Smalley The Love Standard Charles and Sara Rippey met in grammar school: Charles was in sixth grade, Sara was in fourth. For the next 89 years, they went together like cookies and milk. They were married in 1942 — more than 75 years ago […]
How Should a Christian View Marriage and Divorce?
How Should a Christian View Marriage and Divorce? By Amy Desai, J.D. God, the Creator of humanity and of marriage itself, has laid out His plan for marriage as a lifelong union. God knows this design is the best. When we stray from His plan, the results are damaging on many levels. Unfortunately, many Christians […]
