Being in the people helping business is one of the most interesting tightropes I have ever walked. On the one hand, I want to help people. On the other hand, I want to pay my bills. I have a bias towards the actual field of counseling. Not all counseling is done by counselors. Some is…
Amy Warner Radford kicked us off a few months ago talking about our faith communities and handling mental illness. You can read that post here. Today's post is from the newly married Rebekah Holman Clarke. Rebeckah is in the process of opening her own consulting firm. Today, she shares with us some salient and much…
I have been hesitant to enter the Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman fray. In my opinion, it’s just too emotionally charged to get into it online. Sunday morning, I woke up before anyone else in my family and as is my custom, I checked my email, and did a few other things. Then I checked Facebook….
Many people that I talk to agree that a regular dating life is important for the health of their relationship. They also often admit that they don’t go on enough dates and many even tell me that they rarely go on dates. I think part of that is because dating can be hard to coordinate…
So we want to do something fun for the summer. One of the things that we believe is that couples need to date more. So we are challenging you to do the 46 challenge. The idea is that you will have 4 dates in 6 weeks with your spouse. If you’re willing to do it,…
So last week, I set out to do my first 30 day challenge. I was going to listen to a TED talk a day. I made it two days. I failed. Not exactly the auspicious start I was hoping for. In fact, I’ve since cancelled that particular challenge. (Hey, I made it up so I…
I have a new post up at the Creative Solutions Counseling webpage regarding our expectations and how they impact our life. Many times, bad expectations lead to bad experiences. Often because our expectations are just impossible. Here's an excerpt from the post: I so firmly believe that one of the most important questions we can…
I stumbled across this video recently. I really like it. In fact, I’m going to do random things for 30 days at a time as experiements. I’ve started today with watching 1 Ted video or reading one transcript for the next 30 days. I think as time goes along I will update how I’m doing…
Have you ever wanted to ask a mental health therapist a question? Well, now you can! We are excited to announce at Joe Martino counseling that we are starting a series called, Joe Knows. We are currently collecting questions that will be chosen at random by us with no real method to the madness. The…
June is a hard month for me. It is both the month that my mom was born (the 7th) and the month that she died (28th). To be honest, I don’t remember much about the month that she died. I was vaccuuming the house when my Dad called to tell me that she had died….
