I was scrolling through Facebook one day as I have found it helpful to keep me up to date on current events. Since I don’t watch the news or TMZ, it gives me a good blend of the two, not to mention great trending recipes. However, this time, as I was scrolling, I found something that struck my heart. It was an article about a man we attended the Lifeline…
“Bet you can’t eat just one!” was the slogan for Lay’s potato chips. Recently I went to my pantry and found a large amount of potato chip bags. We aren’t big “potato chip” eating people, but because we had been to a few potlucks recently and hosted some gatherings, we had a huge share of half full bags leftover. Since we’ve had them in our pantry, I found us…
Innocence and the Internet – A Personal Account by Tina Konkin I never understood how cyber affairs that began as friendly reconnections could grow to become so destructive. And I can assure you that most of the clients who attend our Relationship Lifeline workshops or exclusive Couples Retreats are equally unaware. Granted, their marriages may lack some degree of emotional intimacy due to the reality of married life with children, work,…
By Dr. Caroline Leaf, Communication Pathologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist specializing in the mind-brain connection, memory and learning. Why do some people commit sexual harassment or abuse? What drives a human being to forget their humanity? There is no single answer. We need to look at sexual crimes from multiple angles, beginning with the most immediate and pressing question: what does it means to be human, a decent loving empathic being…
In January of 2018, Dr. Larry Nassar found himself sequestered in an emotionally charged courtroom where he was finally forced to sit, face-to- face with the 140, yes you read that right, one hundred and forty woman and young girls that he had sexually molested, under the guise of “treating” his “patients.” He was finally forced to listen to these brave women. And speak they did. One after the other,…
Recently, I took a minute to ask myself if I was in need of reconciliation to any particular race? Recently, our church launched a center for racial reconciliation and I was contemplating attending. I am married to a Black man and we have two children. I was raised in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood where I was the only Asian who took folkloric dance lessons for 7 years with my Hispanic…
While sitting at lunch one day, my husband said, “go ahead, interview me”. It was almost as if he had read my mind as I wrestled to ask him if I could interview him for this blog. My husband had a very unique experience at the camp. It was one of those experiences that I didn’t think I wanted to write about, or so I thought. However, as my interview with…
A popular music group U2 wrote a song in 1987 called “Where the Streets Have No Name”. It was said that their lead singer and writer, Bono, was inspired by something he heard about a city called Belfast. Belfast was described to him as a place where people knew what a person’s religion and financial situation was based on the street they lived on. This song made me think about the way…
I spent a good portion of my life trying to create the “perfect life”. I wanted the perfect wedding, the perfect home, the perfect husband and children. In my perspective, this was all inclusive of the house in a safe neighborhood, the husband who gets home from work in time for dinner, and the children who are involved in everything and get straight “A”’s. Little or no suffering. It was a circus act…
Most people think of a legacy as something material that is passed onto the next generation, but have you ever thought of leaving a model of a healthy marriage to your children as a legacy? Don’t we all want our children and grandchildren for generations to come to have strong and healthy marriages? For some of us we have to overcome the effect of bad marriages that were modeled to us in…
