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Perfectionism: Not So Perfect
The Problem with Perfectionism Bob Vass, PLPC, NCC A person’s blind pursuit of perfection causes constant frustration and pain. If you are a perfectionist, by trying to achieve the impossible in every area of your life, you set yourself up to fail again and again. By demanding perfection in trivial…
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Raising Teenagers with Good Values
By John A. Leber Jr. MA, PLPC Having worked in education for over six years as a counselor, teacher, and coach, I’ve found one troubling question that keeps presenting itself: Who is raising our teenagers and from where do they get their values and sense of worth? The obvious answer…
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Lose and Win at the Same Time: A Lesson from Jesus on Marital Surrender
By Kristy Cobillas, MEd, PLPC We know in this chapter that Jesus was talking about how the Christ follower is to lay down (or sacrifice) what he or she wants and how he or she thinks things should be, in order to follow the way that is laid out by…
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Restoring Your Child By Giving A Behavioral “Re-do”
By Shelley Kues, MEd, LPC, Child Therapist Peter denied Jesus three times on that awful night. Peter had every intention of doing “the right thing” earlier that evening when Jesus had predicted that Peter would disown him. Peter couldn’t imagine the events that would follow. Just like Peter, our children…