Is It Infidelity or Not? Types of ...
I often get questions from individuals about the definition of infidelity. The definition is hard to pin down because there...
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John Lakvold, MA, LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
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Comparing Individual Intimacy With God ...
It is amazing, profound, and awe-inspiring how much our heavenly Father knows us. David wrote that our Heavenly Father searches...
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Parenting and Development of Anxiety ...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, cases of depression and anxiety have risen. Even before the pandemic, cases of depression and anxiety...
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Three Stages to Affair Recovery
Most experts would concur that there are two basic types of infidelity: physical and emotional. There are at least three...
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Relationships and Addiction Recovery
In 2019, there were over seventy thousand deaths due to substance overdose. (Peterson et al., 2021). Hospital admissions from primarily...
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Healthy Shame Vs. Toxic Shame
Shame is one of the common emotional schemas experienced by human beings. Emotional schemas are “specific beliefs and dysfunctional strategies...
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Addressing Developmental Needs of Teens
As adults, we probably remember our adolescent years. Adolescence marked a transition from adulthood. We left our childhood and began...
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Are You Sure You Want to Get Divorced?
Divorce is a topic that has become less stigmatized in the last forty years. California began the trend of making...
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What Happens After a Bipolar Diagnosis?
Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects about 2.3 percent of the United States population (DSM V-TR, 2022,...
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7 Things We Cannot Control: How Control ...
The Chinese have a saying: “If something is under your control, why worry about it? If something is not under...
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Couples Counseling: Comparing ...
Baseball was once America’s favorite pastime where children would play in sandlots and fantasize about hitting like Hank Aaron or...
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How to Recognize and Remedy Cognitive ...
Our mind is still a mystery. It has more memory than many computers. It can sort through billions of images,...
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