I went on a day long retreat last week to Quiet Place, a large and comfortable cabin with a wrap around porch near Lancaster, KY. It is a beautiful and secluded place that is used exclusively for spiritual retreats. I… Continue reading
What follows is an attempt to write what might happen if a couple were court ordered for an attempt at reconciliation. A friend of mine asked me to do this. It is a little long for a blog… Continue reading
I am repeatedly amazed by the power of adult human attachment. There is something spiritual and divine about it, the way that two human beings have this drive to be intimate, vulnerable, and dependent upon each other. We can lose… Continue reading
For the past several months I have immersed myself in the writing and teachings of a Franciscan friar named Richard Rohr. I have been “captured” by the idea or practice of contemplation. I highlight captured because that is what it… Continue reading
Thoughts for meditation from Richard Rohr “Once you know you are sharing in the force field of resurrection, you can always draw on it, live within it, and move out from it.”2 Living within the “force field of resurrection” comes… Continue reading
What is your first thought if someone were to tell you that the best thing that can happen to you is to fail? Our western culture, especially in the United States, is obsessed with winning, being right, or having the… Continue reading
There is an oft used phrase in EFT, an attachment based approach to healing marital distress, “catching bullets”. I use this phrase in my counseling sessions with couples to help them (and ourselves) work on not being reactive to their… Continue reading
We are in a broken world, we are broken ourselves, and yet we are in a redeemed world, and we are healed, made whole by love. We exist in the middle of this tension and we tend to want to… Continue reading
“God does not lead the soul by shaming it, just as a good parent would not shame his or her child. It doesn’t work anyway. We have all done it at times, and if we were raised in a punitive… Continue reading
I apologize for sending something out again so soon but I realized that I made liking my business Facebook page too complicated. If you will click link to Don Sizemore & Associates in this email, you can just click… Continue reading