How to Say Yes to Change

On my Frequently Asked Questions page of this site, I used to list reasons I refuse to review the various books publicists want me to write about. For instance, I mentioned that I don’t respond to emails that are not addressed to me by name because that tells me that the publicist didn’t take the [...]

4 Reasons Irritating People Are Gifts

While teaching meditation last night, I announced, “I am going to convince you by the end of class that angry, irritating, mean people are gifts–and you should be thankful to have them in your lives.” Everyone laughed and thought I was joking. I wasn’t. As I’ve written before, the most difficult people in our lives [...]

Dealing with Disagreement

My husband and I just had an interesting conversation about a certain theology. We haggled back and forth about all kinds of perspectives and that sent us back to look more thoroughly at the Word. For us this is not a terribly difficult thing. It’s actually more of a fun thing because we are becoming [...]

What Fake Amazon Reviews Taught Me About Marriage

I co-wrote BE FEARLESS: How to Change Your Life in 28 Days with Jonathan Alpert, a therapist who wrote a wildly controversial opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times called Is Therapy Forever? Enough Already. What I found most interesting from the backlash have been the number of people who will get mad at a [...]

How Does Food Affect Your Marriage?

A new study is analyzing the impact of fatty foods on marital stress, hypothesizing that following a fatty meal, your marital interactions may be more stressful. That got me to thinking about food in general and its impact on our daily lives. While I do think we need to be thinking about eating more healthfully, [...]

Discuss: Should marriage make you a better person?

That’s the question a reader recently posed. She was referring to the line from the Jack Nicholson character in As Good As It Gets, “You make me want to be a better man.” She asked, “Many people say their spouses have made them better people. They say their spouses constantly make them laugh and they [...]

The Dreaded Proverbs 31 Lady, Part Tres

Several comments over the last couple of days (thanks gals!) reminded me that I forgot to share that Proverbs 31:10-31 is an acrostic (the first letter of each sentence spells out the Hebrew alphabet). I could do something similar for men and it might look like this in English ~ A godly man is an [...]

The Big Fat Myth About Monogamous Sex

I’m spending the week at the American Society of Journalists and Authors conference. I co-chaired the conference this year. It was a huge job, one that was time-consuming, but also satisfying. If you are a journalist or author, I hope to see you there. To ensure you all have something to read while I’m away, [...]

Wisdom of Dog #3

This is What Is Left of My Universal Compassion Yes, Universal Compassion really was the title of the book. See the caption for the puppy’s spiritual lesson. "You just read in this very book that you should work as hard for the happiness of others as you do for your own happiness. Isn't my happiness [...]

How and Why to Put Yourself First

Yesterday I was interviewing Hal Runkel, founder of the Scream Free Institute, for an article I’m writing for Parents magazine. I asked him what causes parents to lose their resolve and give in to kids when they whine, for instance, for a bowl of ice cream before dinner. “Fatigue,” he said. He went on to [...]

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