Practicing Mercy at the Holidays

Practicing Mercy at the Holidays

When you go home for the holidays, sometimes something strange happens. Perhaps despite your best intentions, you become like a young kid again. Even if you’ve spent years growing, healing, praying, maybe even going to therapy or mentorship, there is something about...
The Key to a Thriving Marriage

The Key to a Thriving Marriage

Loving Your Spouse’s IFS Parts Like Your Own: The Key to a Thriving Marriage When we start doing the inner work of healing and integration, we quickly come face to face with our “parts.” These parts—fearful, angry, defensive, shameful—can feel like little...
The Love That Sets Us Free

The Love That Sets Us Free

The Love That Sets Us Free: A Compassionate Path Through OCD OCD can be a torturous experience.  Not a quirk or a desire for tidiness, but a dread-filled urgency that demands the elimination of uncertainty. Which is, of course, an impossible task. Living with...
Where Trust is Rebuilt

Where Trust is Rebuilt

Where Trust is Rebuilt: In the Presence of the Eucharist Attachment Theory, the Eucharist, and the Healing of Trust Fear is woven into the human experience. We fear that things won’t work out. That we’ll be hurt, abandoned, forgotten. That we’ll fail. So what do we do...
When I Feel Frozen

When I Feel Frozen

A People Pleasers Guide to Saying Hard Things Saying something hard but true is a people pleasers worst nightmare I’ve laid in bed late at night, paralyzed—heart pounding, throat tight, mind racing—because of the things I’ve been afraid to say. I picture the person I...
The Two Types of Narcissism

The Two Types of Narcissism

Did You Know There Are Two Types Of Narcissism? Why Narcissism Sometimes Sneaks Up On Us. When you hear the word “narcissism,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For many people, it’s an image of someone loud, arrogant, and aggressively...