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Christian Counselling Calgary: 6 Steps to Avoid Catastrophe
July 27, 2022 Comments Off on Christian Counselling Calgary: 6 Steps to Avoid Catastrophe

Christian Counselling Calgary: Early last week, I spoke with a Calgary Christian Counselling services client about a major life decision she was facing. As the conversation wound down, she still had not reached a place of clarity about what she would do and, in frustration, commented, “Well, I’m still not sure, but really, how sure can anyone be in a world gone this insane?”
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Calgary Counselling: Embracing life, in the shadow of death
July 31, 2020 1 Comment on Calgary Counselling: Embracing life, in the shadow of death

One of the weirdest rituals Christian religious leaders perform seems to happen at nearly every funeral: The service is drawing to a close when either the Reverend or someone else stands up to do a Scripture reading taken from Psalm 23:
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Spiritual Direction Calgary: The Heart of Grief Counselling.
July 7, 2017 Comments Off on Spiritual Direction Calgary: The Heart of Grief Counselling.

“So, just what is Spiritual Direction?” Calgary clients (quite unlike the majority of peoples around the world) have usually never even heard of it – and that’s the first question that comes out of their mouths…
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Surviving infidelity: Is there healing after an affair?
April 25, 2017 Comments Off on Surviving infidelity: Is there healing after an affair?

After nineteen years as a Calgary couples counsellor, I now get the desperate emails and the frantic phone calls practically all the time:

My wife cheated on me…

My husband had an affair…
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Breaking the power of resentment
March 4, 2017 Comments Off on Breaking the power of resentment

Watch any Remembrance/Memorial day service or the yearly September 11th events and, over and over again, you hear the publicly repeated vows to never forget the atrocities of terrorism that has sparked so many wars.
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Overcoming key barriers to healing addiction
February 4, 2017 Comments Off on Overcoming key barriers to healing addiction

Earlier today, I walked two separate clients through the exact same material: An understanding of 8 key barriers to escaping from addiction and how those barriers actually represent a very clear roadmap out of addiction and into healing.
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Five key choices people make that result in addiction
October 26, 2016 Comments Off on Five key choices people make that result in addiction

Really, no one wakes up one day and consciously chooses addiction. People do, however, make five key choices that, together, do amount to a choice of addiction. Or, perhaps another way of saying it is that the combined impact of those incredibly damaging choices makes addiction seem to be inescapable and seem to be something you are powerless over.

Let’s look at those damaging choices:
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How to break a habit.
July 21, 2015 Comments Off on How to break a habit.

They could include eating junk food, biting your nails, chewing your hair, picking at skin, scratching, shopping, cracking knuckles or even things like chewing on your pen – but we all have one. Usually, it’s maddening to us and, often, to those around us…
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Protecting children from online erotica/pornography
June 27, 2015 Comments Off on Protecting children from online erotica/pornography

Nearly every school system in North America is beginning to debate the use of the internet in schools. Wifi has become ubiquitous, LTE connections are in nearly every student’s backpack and the hand wringing and panic over what children are surfing has reached epic levels.
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Make change happen.
June 3, 2015 Comments Off on Make change happen.

During graduate school, one of the comments I most frequently heard from different professors was the line, “Change is a mystery.” At the time, it seemed so philosophical and wise. In retrospect, it just sounds like complete nonsense generally uttered by those who now appear to have fled the real world for the safety of teaching.
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