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What dermatology teaches us about the Cross
During the readings of the day of Monday, the Church in Her wisdom has two parallels or two things occurring. You have the prophecies on one track and what happens with Christ on the other. The Church starts by speaking about creation and the Fall in the prophecies....
What Canada teaches us about Holy Week
This post's inspo came from my friend Philo, a Canadian lawyer who recently moved to the States and studied to become a lawyer here. He joked about how he debates with his professors here in the States about how the American system stinks. So I asked him, what's the...
There is a stench!
Today was the last day of Lent, and tomorrow we start Holy Week with Lazarus Saturday. The Church begins Holy week, a.k.a. Holy Pascha, with resurrection and ends with resurrection. Although, the commemoration of raising Lazarus from the dead is actually on another...
Do you want to be made well?
The question we heard today in the readings of Christ healing the paralytic man was the first of 3 questions that Mark Laaser poses to the reader in his book, Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction. I've shared it here as it is a profound question not only to those...
Emotions & Trauma
One of my favorite books is Voice of the Heart by Chip Dodd. It's a short book, but I'd say probably the densest book I have ever read to date. Essentially, Dodd defines eight core emotions, or truths as he calls them. He says we experience these emotions in 2 ways....
The shame of a therapist
One of the hardest things about being a therapist is that our training is a double-edged sword. It can help us in our professional work being competent and effective therapists while also helping us in our personal lives, but on the other hand, we can become our very...