Fun and Play by Dr. Jeremy Boden, LMFT, CFLE
When was the last time you and your partner really had fun together? When was the last time you were truly playing together? When working with couples at the Center …
Childhood Stress: 7 Signs and 7 Solutions by Joan Landes
Your five-year old keeps having melt-downs over small incidents. Your ten-year old has stomach aches every day. And your 15 year-old plays video-games until three in the morning. Are these …
Spring Cleaning Your Marriage by Chad Olson, LMFT
How do you “Spring Clean” when it comes to your marriage? When I was growing up, I knew that every spring at the Olson household we would have a major …
Marriage After Retirement by Dr. Rick Miller
How do you enjoy Marriage after Retirement? With mixed emotions, you finish packing up your things from your office and carry the box with you to your boss’s office, where …
The “Mosquitos” of Inaction: Dealing with the Problems in Our Life by Kenneth Jeppesen
We’ve all experienced a summer evening outside ruined by relentless mosquitos. Eventually we realize that no amount of swatting will stop the onslaught, and that we’ll die of exhaustion before …
Nothing Mellow About Yellow! by Camille Olson
Just the other day I found myself at the shoe store buying ballet shoes for my daughters. I don’t know a woman on earth that can be at a shoe …
Avoiding Abusive Relationships (and Building Good Ones) by Jonathan Decker, LMFT
In my work as a therapist and relationship educator the most frequently-recurring issue I see among single adults is the belief that all of the good men/women are already taken. …
Stress: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Dr. Mike Olson, LMFT
The Good. We often think of stress as a bad thing, something that we must eradicate from our lives. Yet, without it, we would not be able to survive a …
Forgiveness: Spiritual & Medical Implications by Christina Puchalski
This is an interesting article taken from The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. “Forgiveness: Spiritual and Medical Implications” by Christina Puchalski, MD. (http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/spirit/forgiveness/cpuchalski.htm) “On a societal level, we …
Resolutions That Lead to Happiness by Dr. Matt Brown
As we welcome in the New Year, we often reflect on ways in which we would like to improve. Many of us formalize these reflections with New Year’s resolutions or …