Personal Counseling Articles

  Positive living. We’ve written a three-part “Me & Positivity” series that have shown that a positive life in motion and practice can be good for your health (read how, here!) I hope those who’ve read our three-part series about what living positive can mean to you, and to your sense of happiness, have made positive gains […]

My Dear Wounded Child, Rick Elgersma, You were so manipulative, Rick, and you lied so many times. That wasn’t ok. You were hurt from it, and others were hurt too. I’m so sorry you had to go through that. You’re still manipulative in ways, at least you have those tendencies, I see them. That’s how […]

“The Nun Study” was a longevity study done to help predict how emotion affects the immune system. The participating nuns (678 nuns in total, average age: 22) were asked to write an autobiography that was toinclude all the stuff they could think of about their life: Their history, their goals and aspirations, their family life etc. The […]

The words in the song say something like “Party like it’s 1969”. I can’t remember who wrote it. There’s an old Blues tune by the same name. New Year’s Eve, 2009 I partied like it was 1939. I did. The average age of the party we enjoyed was somewhere well over 60. Christmas celebrations define […]

Live To Love The Rain. I’m momentarily stilled within a convoluted recovery-sometimes arduous, sometimes silly, sometimes hopeful, sometimes mortifying, sometimes peaceful, but always exhausting recovery. I know God sees me. I just know. I’m still exhausted. We are exhausted. For those who don’t know, just over a month ago I had major spinal cord surgery. […]