Did you see yourself in any of the conflict styles I described last week? If you are honest with yourself, you identified with one or two ways you tend to handle conflict. None of them were very healthy, and the reality is, unless we work at it, we can fall into negative patterns easily. […]
What’s Your Conflict Style?
Our pastor has been preaching out of the book, Songs of Songs, from the Bible. It is chock full of great marital advice, and one such area is conflict. Every relationship will experience conflict. We all approach it differently, though, and my experience and training indicate our conflict style is often a reflection of […]
Allow Time for Apologies
Put Words into Action
I watched an obscure 2017 movie called, Aftermath, with Arnold Schwarzenegger. It didn’t do well in theaters, and I don’t necessarily recommend it. However, the moral of the story needs to be shared. The basis of the movie is a plane crash and how it impacts both the air traffic controller who made a huge […]
Be a Living Example of Love
Stress Management is Part of the Solution
Conversation Starters
Our lives are full and crazy busy, and often by the time we are back home with loved ones, we are spent. The very people we should be saving our best for often get our worse. If you are a PIBO (present in body only) at home then I encourage you to practice these conversation […]
Love is a Verb
We just celebrated Valentine’s Day. Whether you are a fan of the holiday or not, it does give us a day where we are supposed to step out of ourselves to show love to others. I was intentional with my word choice of “show” because love should be a verb. It is very easy to […]
We Need More Honor
If you have been wondering where I have been the last two weeks, I got the Delta variant of COVID. How do I know? I lost all taste and smell AND it kicked my butt with high fever, cough, brain fog, dizziness, and crazy fatigue. For about ten days straight, I barely got out of […]
