Last month we talked about developing and maintaining healthy communication as you parent your kids. The skills you learn to communicate in respectful, honoring ways will come in handy when you need to resolve your conflicts. Healthy communication and conflict resolution are really two sides of the same coin. They work together to create a marriage of love, trust, [...]
Spring seems to be just around the corner. Last weekend, here in Colorado Springs we were in the '60s and the birds were singing their songs to announce that Winter's hold is coming to an end and the new birth of Spring is nearly upon us. Alas, in Colorado Springs that is only partly true. Here, we [...]
This month's post is from the author of the book, Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs. We read this book a few years back and also attended one of the Love & Respect conferences when it came to our area. This book had a dramatic impact on our lives and marriage. It contains some simple, but powerful truths that transformed how [...]
This month's article may be uncomfortable or even painful for some of us to read, but I urge you to read it anyway. All of us have "baggage", those unpleasant—and sometimes horrific—events that make up our personal history. But they need not make up our future. No matter what past baggage you carry, you can be free from its load, [...]
“That’s not the way I remember it!” Lauren exclaimed heatedly to her sister, Josey. “How could you think that? About our father?” Josey narrowed her eyes in anger. It was the first “reunion” she’d had with her three sisters since her parents’ death two years earlier. And this was why. Anytime she tried to talk to Lauren and Annette about [...]
