Let's Talk Recovery and Family

Do men of faith approach stressors differently?

Fathers Day is come, lets talk about dads!!

Two types of grief exist. They're triggering for some. Both can be hurtful.

Being a dad is a big responsibility, but can leave concerning thoughts and doubtful feelings.

Why do we argue? Why do we allow ourselves to argue about the same stuff.

With most guys its just about being patient. Find out if there is a history, there be some unseen barriers you're working with.

When people are ugly to each other, mean to each other, that does come from somewhere. Hurt people do hurt people.

I don't thinking your older age will exempt you from hurtful things.

Lets look at what could happen if your grudge, your hate, your bitterness starts to out live the people around you.

Do the little conversations that include her thoughts, feelings and emotions annoy you?

Crying is such a taboo topic when it comes to men. But the other emotions that are manifested later are not...Anger.

More family dysfunction and characteristics, do any of these dysfunctional family roles describe you?

How the family takes on roles that can create certain behaviors.

Hope you have a blessed Father's Day this weekend, Amen

Your kids have watched you, everything you do, hear everything you say, see how you respond every situation.

Relationships can have all sorts of characteristics or dynamics within it, does dysfunction have to be one of them?

You do know that sometimes what you see or experience, you have manifested? You can see thoughts, what people are thinking about you, so you'll see it.

Even without mental health or addiction issues your personality and behaviors can still be all over the place.

Mental illness does not always lead to poor mental health, poor mental health is not always due to mental illness.

Addiction has many layers, they include the many layers of trauma, low self-esteem/image, physical/emotional abuse and many more.

Sometimes families do add to the symptoms of mental health

Lets talk about how substance abuse is the symptom of other things, could be why your communication style doesn't work.

Yes, yes we do drag life lessons, experiences, baggage and maladaptive behaviors with us, even from childhood.

The holidays are not always joyful and happy, something always seems to hold us back from feeling happy.

Life is too short to hold grudges over anything, lets remove the wedges that separate families and learn to enjoy each other.

I think this is an area men can grow in especially when there is recovery and healing needed in a relationship

Addiction, Mental Health or Family trauma  or drama, everyone has holiday struggles.

Your personal or relational recovery and restoration may not look like it once did, returning to a healthier you is the key.

You can't blame people's human flaws on Christianity, some people of their on choices don't want change.

You can not let the struggles of real life deter your faith, nor allow for yourself our others to doubt your faith.

Being a Christian and dealing with addiction can be such a confusing position to be. I say...stand on the word of God.

Sometimes it is difficult manage our issues when our faith is in question.

Sometimes giving advice that wasn't asked for can backfire and create stress in any relationship.

Sometimes people in recovery, who love recovery present behaviors that show it.

Most relationships, especially young couples, struggle with give and take. 

There are so many hidden reason for the ways we approach relationships, mental health and addiction issues, did you know they're intertwined with your attachment style? 

It can be difficult to recognize when your partner is feeling a little down on themselves, but that could be a sign of a deeper issue. 

Have a partner that is living with anxiety or panic disorder can hard. 

Lets talk about some of the characteristic that are truly difficult to navigate when dealing with controlling girlfriends.

Do you tend to avoid the conversation with sarcasm, some use words like Never and Always to exaggerate a point.

Lets take a look at a few positive attributes of healthy working relationship.  

Sometime it seems that grandparents and great grandparents feel the need to interject their parenting two cents even when it's not appropriate to do so.

Sometimes people don't even notice the emotional baggage that haven been in an abusive relation can leave behind.

Over the course of time discussing mental health issues more openly has gotten better, maybe we could learn a little something from Generation Z.

Sometime knowing what the symptoms of depression are can be hard. Sometimes you could be encouraged to ignore them, sometime by some one's lack in understanding or belief system.

It is such an amazing feeling to make it an other marital year. Anniversaries can be a great milestone moment.

Are you a couple dealing with a child with mental health issues, its hard. When their adult children, even harder.

As a couple, going through a traumatic event together can be trying and taxing on your relationship, could you manage through a painful event.

Sometimes us guys have a "I'll just get over it mentality" the problem is when we as husbands apply that same mind set to what our wives are feeling.

Lets talk about the fact that men can hurt too, spiritually and emotionally speaking.