Explore practical strategies to listen actively, express ourselves clearly, and set healthy boundaries, all while preserving the peace and understanding within our family dynamics.
Ep. 311 Communication Principles to Heal Family Divisions
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Ep. 211 Navigating Family Stress at the Holidays
As we begin of a season of holiday stress for many people with family gatherings, let’s equip ourselves for how to reduce stress and increase our joy.
Misfire of Communication – Lessons Learned from a Cat
What is one thing that people have struggled with for centuries? What causes the most conflict in people’s relationships today? I propose it is a misfire of communication.
Learn How To Revamp Your Life
One of the greatest things you can do for yourself is to practice better self-care in the areas of your health, your home and family life, and in your business (or school) life.
Parental Insights in Raising Catholic Teenagers
Parents need to only have a newborn in their house for a few weeks before they hear people say, “Just wait till they are teens!” It is axiomatic in our culture that the teenage years are full of rebellion and strife for the family.
Experiencing Grace & Hope While Grieving During the Holidays
This time of year, as we go through the seasons of Fall into Winter, provides us with so many opportunities for joy and family time as well as a focus on giving and receiving. Typically, this is a time of year that we find peace in seeing so much good among people.
The 3 Most Important Tenets for Good Parenting
Being a parent is by far the most important job any of us can have. We are not only responsible for the formation of another person, but in forming that person we have a share in shaping the larger world in which we live.
Creating a Catholic Home
As Catholics, we can better prepare our hearts to the devoutness of our faith through creating a thoroughly Catholic, Christ-centered home.
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.
I Think I Swallowed a Bug Yesterday
Well, for once, this is not just a clever title. I wish it were. I think I really did swallow a bug yesterday.
Co-Parenting after Divorce: What’s Best for Your Child
Divorce. I have experienced it. I am a father of five – three boys with my first wife and two children with my current wife of over 20 years.
Sometimes, We Need To Pull the Radishes!
As a gardener, I have received pleasure from planting many vegetables and found the satisfaction in enjoying the literal fruits of my labor.
5 Handy Tips for Getting Your Kids Talking
As parents, with many responsibilities and often many heavy challenges, we often forget that our children can have a lot weighing on their hearts, too.
Christmas – Oh, the Humanity!
Christmas is a time that truly reveals our humanity.
Facing the Holidays Post Election
Allison Ricciardi provides strategies to navigate the holidays around talking politics or discussing other hot button topics. Download the free guide.
Pottery Parenting
There is a joke about parenting that goes like this: “You spend the first two years teaching your children how to walk and talk, and the next sixteen telling them to sit down and be quiet.”
Fix My Broken Kid
This is a common lament of frustrated parents who drag their child to see a therapist. The parents are seeking the help of a counselor typically because they are at their wit’s end.
Dad to Dad: Success at Home
In my work as a therapist, I see many men for a variety of reasons, but one comes up most frequently – parenting problems.