THE BLOG
Every holiday season, I enter Thanksgiving with the best of intentions. I always have this strong desire to spend more time with my family, capture moments of real joy, and appreciate the...
I sat in my clinical office one Friday afternoon feeling utterly helpless as I hung up the phone after talking with my friend. Two weeks earlier I had referred him to an addictions treatment...
My wife and I were at a party several weeks ago and decided that it would be incredibly important to take a quick selfie so that we could post about our evening on all the social media platforms....
Another school shooting has yielded new fears for the safety of our children and more questions about how we should respond as a nation to what amounts to a crisis of violence. One quick...
If there is one thing I have learned after almost 30,000 hours of providing clinical services to individuals and families it is this: There is no cookie cutter way to respond to the difficult...
My pastor told a story during his sermon that I thought was incredibly relevant for our world today.
As the story goes, Thomas Edison finished a prototype of the lightbulb and allowed a boy to...
One look at your Facebook feed and you will quickly see that the Supreme Court has struck down a law prohibiting gambling on sporting events. Everyone from amateur sports fans to ESPN and the...
Adrian Marquez’ heroic story began back in June of 2000 when he joined the Marine Corps. His superiors quickly realized that Adrian was an unusual soldier who was gifted with unique...
We were down 27 to 28 with only a few seconds left on the clock in the first game of a single elimination tournament. It was win or go home and even though I was only coaching ten-year-old...
It’s hard to believe, but the new year is upon us! Soon we will be sitting down with family and friends celebrating all the promise and excitement a new year brings. We get a new start...
Riding a motorcycle at 110 mph down the interstate…too dangerous. Group break dancing in the office…too dated. Doing a Richard Simmons video in your living...
We just finished an epic night-skiing session and were preparing for our 20-minute drive back to the cabin we rented in the mountains. I pulled up the address of the cabin on Google Maps and...
