Intensive Marriage Therapy
Our children are getting ready to start school on Monday. Having just moved to Pennsylvania, they are understandably concerned about making new friends. As we have talked about this the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking about how we never outgrow the desire to fit in and have friends. Even as adults, we need other people. We need to feel like we belong. We need to feel included.
This week, I need your help. Over the last year, the number of people reading my blog has grown substantially. As I move forward, I want to make sure I am writing about topics and providing content that is helpful and relevant to YOU! But that means I need to know more about you!
Would you take a few minutes and fill out my 2016 Reader Survey? Your feedback will help me know how to make my content more interesting and applicable to you. Essentially, this is your chance to tell me what specific topics would best serve your needs at this stage in your life.
It will take about five minutes to fill out and the responses are all anonymous–meaning I can’t tell who said what.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Three-year-old and five-year-old boys drive moving truck into neighbor’s yard barely missing the house.
It’s true. Two years ago our boys climbed into the moving truck while we were loading it and knocked the faulty gear shifter out of park and disengaged the emergency brake. There were no keys in the truck and we didn’t realize they had climbed in. All we knew was that the truck was rolling down our driveway, straight towards our neighbor’s house. Continue Reading
In his book, Better, writer, surgeon, and researcher Dr. Atul Gwande asked, “What does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy, so effortless?”
I hear this concern from many couples in medical relationships. When I ask physician couples what topics are most pressing and concerning to them, the overwhelming theme is what does it take to make a medical marriage work when the challenges are so prevalent?Continue Reading
You’ve heard the term “passive aggression,” but do you really know what it means. Can you accurately identify it in your relationships? In yourself? Do you know how to handle relationships where one person is consistently passive aggressive?
After hours of working through Quicken and trying to figure out how to make the next month of medical school work, I sat staring at my computer screen–overwhelmed and exhausted. The financial strain of medical school felt crushing.
No matter how hard I tried, the reality was our monthly loan stipend was significantly less than our family of four needed to live. This particular month, we had unexpected car repairs that I didn’t know how we were going to pay for. I finally walked away from the computer, prayed for the ability to find a solution, and went to bed. Around noon the next day, we received a check in the mail for $50–the exact amount we needed to cover our expenses that month–along with a note from a dear family member that said, “We’ve been thinking about you and thought this might help.”Continue Reading
