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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. ATTENTION LOVE-BIRDS

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    Do I hear wedding bells, wedding songs and fretful brides?  Well, if you and your fiancee are about to “tie the knot”  this article is right for you. Have you considered some “pre-marriage education”.  If not, allow me to share a few facts, figures and realities with you before you take that all important leap into the wonderful relationship of marriage. A study of 3,334 couples conduct…Read More

  5. Be Strong

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    "Be brave strong and courageous; seek adventure and truth, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 My wife put this verse up in our son's bedroom. I honestly had never heard it before, but I love it. I am moved by how empowering it is to hear, and know, that God desires for us to live confidently and in the freedom of knowing he loves us. Often our past experiences or…Read More

  6. Bree Emery Shares How She Empowers Women To Find Their Inner Strength

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    As many of you know, or can learn from reading my bio. on our website, I work with girls and women.  Because of the population I serve at Emery Counseling, there are certain topics with which I have become intimately aware.  Additionally, I am a woman myself.  I am friends with women.  I have a daughter.  I came from a woman.  I came from another woman’s body.  This sacred act of birt…Read More

  7. Reacting to the “Button Pusher”

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    Back in the day, people used to write letters to each other. It would take 2-3 days or even a week before the message arrived. Knowing the time lapse that took place, I would imagine people might have taken a few moments to pen their thoughts. This would be especially true if they were angry about something. The point is, I'm thinking there was probably more thought into the letters. In the age of…Read More

  8. How To Connect With Your Teenager

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    Waiting in a pickup line outside the school, I admired the sunset-tinted clouds and watched students emerging from the high school.  Noticing movement in my rearview mirror, I glanced up to see a woman pull to a stop behind me.  She hurriedly reached for one of the piles of paperstacked on her dash and began to sort.  Her son must have been watching for her, because he climbed i…Read More

  9. Self Harm – Help For The Parents

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    Finding out your child/teen is engaging in self-harming behaviors can throw any parent into a whirlwind of emotions- fear, anger, sadness, and confusion (just to name a few).  Understanding why your child would harm their body can be very difficult.   I intend to shed a little light on the why here, but I, primarily, would like to give some feedback on how you, as the parent of someone w…Read More

  10. The Best Parenting Advice I Can Give

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    It wasn’t the first party I had been to. In fact, I had been to lots of parties before this one. But this is the first one I drank at. It had all the necessary ingredients for youthful adventure and stupidity: Lots of unsupervised teenagers, miles of forest, a bond fire, bb guns, and of course a keg. This was the last day of school for the year and the celebration was a classic campout party i…Read More