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.

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.

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.

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

Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

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

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

Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.

Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.

The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. — André Chevalier

The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to...

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to...

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor’s...

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too…

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...