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Essential Oils: Are They Really Ok for Catholics?
Allison Ricciardi, LMHC answers the question: Is it okay for Catholics to include essential oils into their health and wellness routines?
Time to De-Christmas and Forge Ahead into the New Year?
It’s that time of year again. Time to take down the Christmas decorations, make some resolutions and forge ahead into the New Year.
Is There a Distinction Between Selfishness and Being Self-absorbed?
Allison Ricciardi, LMHC explains the differences between selfishness and being self-centered plus ways to understand these traits in others.
Finding Healthy Resolution Without Becoming a Gossipmonger
When difficult things happen in our lives it’s understandable and important to both our emotional and physical health that we seek out either professional counseling intervention or someone to just vent our feelings to help us sort them out.
Wishing You a Blessed Advent and a Joyous Christmas
It’s Advent once again. As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, we naturally turn to Scripture and the Nativity story. As one of the mysteries we meditate upon in the Rosary, the story of the Nativity offers us so much to contemplate. I always like to pray for...
Holding Onto Your Faith When Your Kids Leave The Church
Allison Ricciardi, LMHC provides encouragement for a parent whose child has left the church and abandoned their faith.
Reconciling Your Faith When Your Grown Children Abandon Theirs
For the devout Catholic parent, often nothing is more challenging to one’s faith than having a child leave it when they become an adult.
As Divisions Multiply
With the division in our country these days, it’s hard not to get discouraged, even angry. There are divisions in our families as well, sometimes related to politics, and many times related to differing moral perspectives. It’s hard to have a productive discussion...
Letting Go of Resentment Leads to a Stress-Free Life
Stress comes from many sources. It is highly stressful when a person delivers a wallop of emotional or physical pain to us (or someone we love). It then adds significantly more stress when we store that negativity and we don’t let it go.