As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters.

Life is a purposeful action.

An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.

Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals

Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.

I have frequently thought to myself, ‘If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.’ Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I...

The loss of my child broke my spirit.

The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.

Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.

Dr. Asa Don Brown has successfully managed to amalgamate his own profound insights with centuries old wisdom and contemporary psychology to produce an unique, lucid and pragmatic work. His book will undoubtedly inspire those seeking...

Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

Author has developed a routine of daily emotional debriefing with his kids as he tucks them in at night. To encourage the habit of keeping uncluttered, open heart, he starts with basic questions asking whether...

Facing one’s past can be a perilous activity. For the client, joy must exceed misery. Personal successes must far outweigh losses. Pleasure must exceed pain. Always. Always. To do otherwise is a failure of the...

If any parent feels like their child could use some counseling, they should call the school.

To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to...

Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents...

The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. The ultimate cure is not culture, but Christ.

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

Real loved one’s aren’t afraid, and will suggest to you, what’s in your best interest because they wouldn’t want too see you suffer the consequences of, sideways, emotional impulse(s). To see you crash and burn,...

A woman’s love for a man should never be taken for granted. What is life without love?

Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently....

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called ‘helping’ them.

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn’t the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these...

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

Being Scared-off by EvilLastly, we deny the presence of evil because we are terrified by the horrendously hurtful, cruel, and bloody kinds of evil people tell us about—if we are willing to listen. This was...

Humankind cannot bear too much reality.

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.

The Anatomy of Conflict:If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there...

I’d always follow Nixon’s orders, but you can’t order somebody to be happy.

You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin’s system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as...

We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than...

We have been together for 40 years, married for 36. There have been three times in our relationship when we were unable to resolve an issue on our own. We used all the skill that...

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

In the reflected gaze of his (her husband’s) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

I’ve had a lot of therapists, so I’ve had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I’ve faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word “servant”.

did” something to them, you made them well. You acted upon them and can take the credit for successful therapy or treatment. Conversely, if your clients flounder or regress, that reflects poorly on you. On...