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  1. The Dashboard Of Emotions

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    This life often requires us to seek help to deal with everyday discomforts.  Being in community with others is often enough.  However, physical pain can become debilitating enough that we schedule with a physician.  We may turn to counsel for unique reasons, but what commonly prompts us to schedule is pain -- either pain for which doctors cannot find a cause or pain originating i…Read More

  2. I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE A LEGACY??

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    I was reminded this weekend as my wife and I attended the memorial service of a 94-year-old long-time friend of the Emery family that LEGACY does have value.   I always intend for my blogs to instruct, challenge or encourage: This blog I hope will accomplish all three. Harold Bowyer (the 94-year-old family friend) went home to be with his heavenly Father last week and as we attended his service I…Read More

  3. Do Something You Love

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    When we are under stress or experiencing difficulties one of the first things to go is caring for ourselves. We especially struggle with giving ourselves permission to do things we enjoy. It becomes difficult to love ourselves when we feel like it's not reflected in the world or relationships around us. As though our worth is dependent on our circumstances: "I can only be ok if everything/everyone…Read More

  4. How To Make Friends

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    As I’m returning from lunch with one of my favorite people, a friend of mine, I’m contemplating this interesting concept: friendship.   We often spend a lot of energy, and place a lot of emphases, on romantic relationships. We often believe that finding the “right” romantic partner will make us happy and fulfilled.  However, research shows that friends are actually even more impor…Read More

  5. The Good Parent

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    Summer break has been going for a bit now and I have suffered some parental growing pains as my teenagers have stretched their wings of independence just a bit more. The summer began with me feeling excited that my children would get some rest from such a busy school year. I had ideas of all of the fun they would have and the things we would also do as a family. It all looked so beautiful in my he…Read More

  6. Boundaries

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    Boundaries are drawn all around us.  Physical boundaries are drawn for us: earth’s atmosphere, shorelines, national borders, state and county lines, city limits, property lines.  Regulated by government and mapped out in detail, they show the extent of ownership and who’s responsible for maintaining that which is owned. However, in relationships, we share the task of…Read More

  7. Joy and Happiness!

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    Summer brings so many great memories and fun plans to spend time outdoors. Being outside in Colorado has always been something brings out positively in me. I wanted to challenge myself and anyone else that loves summer (or even if you don’t) to seek out intentional ways to manifest that positivity. I started with the basics of simply looking into the differences between the words joy and happy. …Read More

  8. Who’s Having Trouble Falling Asleep at Night?

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    Here are four things you can try to facilitate the, much desired, drift off to sleep. Just a few stats (because I’m a nerd like that;) • 50 to 70 million people in the US suffer from one or several sleep disorders. • 30% of the adult U.S. population suffer from Insomnia and 10% from chronic Insomnia. • 75 to 90% of insomnia sufferers have an increased risk of medical disorders su…Read More

  9. Put it down…Look around

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    It seems people have gotten lonelier than they used to be. Many studies have shown in an age where we are more connected than ever, we tend to be more lonely. Often times, when things begin to go poorly in our lives, we start thinking of ways we can self-improve. Maybe we go to the gym, start eating healthier, go to counseling, sleep more, etc. What if instead of only looking inwardly at the thing…Read More

  10. The Need to See Out

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    Certain watershed memories involve the soul’s need for a larger perspective.  Watching the passing scenery through the windshield instead of a single side window, seeing the next horizon from the top of a hill, drinking in the distance visible from a building’s top floor, being stunned into awed silence by summiting a pass – these watershed vistas momentarily satiate the so…Read More