How do you define the word “hope?” Do you define it as wishful thinking or some ethereal ideal that sounds nice, but feels unachievable? The American Psychological Association (APA) defines hope as “the expectation that one will have positive experiences or that a potentially threatening or negative situation will not materialize or will ultimately result […]

In the practical section of this month’s blog, I encouraged you to take some time to consider the following areas of health: emotional health, social health, physical health, spiritual health, intellectual health, environmental health, occupational health and financial health. I hope you were able to identify not only areas that need improvement, but areas in […]

What do you think of when you think of the word “health?” Do you think about your physical or mental health? These are the first two that come to my mind. However, there are many types of health. Years ago, I spoke with someone who was studying what they called “different types of intelligence.” She […]

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” This quote comes from Viktor Frankl who survived the Holocaust and wrote Man’s Search for Meaning. It is a good place to start when talking about gratitude.  

Control is mostly an illusion. We can control some things—such as the clothes we pick out to put on each day, the food we take into our bodies and how we spend our time. And yet, there are so many things we cannot control. And most of these are big things.  

In the practical blog on this piece, we began unpacking the pros and cons of AI in the world of counseling. Here, I would like to continue that conversation. If you have not read the practical part of this blog on this topic, I encourage you to go back and do so. There are definite […]

*Content Warning:  This blog post contains a discussion of suicide.  Please take care while reading. If you are in crisis or need support, please dial 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.  It is hard to believe that what we know as AI actually began in 1950. And, the first chatbot was created in […]

Looking back over my life, the list of what I have waited for is somewhat daunting. In my adult life alone, I have waited for: high school to finish, college to start, college to finish, grad school to start, grad school to finish, dating to begin, engagement to take place, marriage, children and home buying […]

Waiting seasons are like challenging seasons. You are either in a waiting season, coming out of a waiting season or in the middle of one. The same can be said of challenging seasons—you are either in one, coming out of one or in between them. For today, we are going to focus on waiting seasons.

In the practical part of the blog on this topic, we talked about different types of “community.”   We can be “in community” with one person or we can be in a more social type of “community” with multiple people.