Emotional Freedom Technique

Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, integrates ancient Asian healing traditions with contemporary Western clinical psychology by combining acupressure (digital pressure applied to acupuncture points) with imaginal exposure (i.e., mental imagery) to traumatic or conflicted feelings, memories, or images. EFT derives from Thought Field Therapy, or TFT, conceived in 1979 by Roger Callahan, PhD, a clinical […]

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What Makes A Good Marriage?

I recently read an article in which the author wrote, “I don’t know what makes a good marriage.”  It was an advice piece on marriage.  That we come out of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education with no instruction in how to succeed at marriage is strange, isn’t it?  Is this negligence, or is it that […]

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Mental Illness or “Spiritual Emergency?”

Conflicts over the beliefs, practices, rituals and experiences related to a person’s religious or spiritual practices sometimes lead them into counseling or, at least, prove significant in treating the issues that brought them there. A survey of members of the American Psychological Association (APA) revealed that one in six of their patients have counseling issues […]

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Our Search for Meaning

If only holiday happiness was delivered with the certainty of holiday gifts. Contrary to the joy that the holidays invite, some of us become painfully aware of the incongruity between the ideals of love, kindness, and connection and the reality of strained family relations, stretched finances, and feelings of isolation. There is nothing like the […]

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Soul Mate Closer Than You Think?

Some people torture themselves over whether their marriage was a “mistake.” They second guess themselves endlessly about whether they’ve settled for less than the relationship they were supposed to have. The most common cause for their doubt is the presence of conflict in their relationship. One of the first reassurances we give couples is that […]

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Re-Romanticize Your Partnership

According to ancient Chinese wisdom, summer is the season for partnership, warmth, joy and passion. Bring summer’s fire to your relationship by doing this exercise with your partner: On separate sheets of paper each write the heading, “I feel most loved and cared about when you…” Underneath, write all the things your partner does – […]

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The Spirit in ‘Holiday Spirit’: The Magic of Meditation

People use meditation and contemplation to gain calmness and perspective, lower blood pressure, augment medical treatments, reach beyond thought and senses to heightened states of awareness, and for many other reasons. Why not use these practices to renew the spiritual aspect of the winter holidays? Since it’s no secret that the holidays offer their fair […]

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Pastoral Coaching and the Whole-Person

“Part consultant, part motivational speaker, part therapist and part friend, coaches work with managers, entrepreneurs and just plain folks, helping them define and achieve their goals – career, personal or, most often, both.” – Newsweek As the Newsweek excerpt suggests, conventional coaching, used effectively, reveals clients’ unique gifts and possibilities and helps them take focused, […]

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