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Transforming Your Anxiety: Anxiety in Relationships
“When we can stand face-to-face with another human being in all of our anxiety, and we don’t have to try to run or hide from it, that is the beginning of a true relational connection.” One of the...
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Men’s Disconnect with Vulnerability and Connection
The above is a quote from Chapter 8 in my new book (coming out May 1) What it Means to be a Man: God’s Design for Us in a World Full of Extremes. Vulnerability is one of the major themes that has...
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Transforming Your Anxiety: Final Thoughts and Resources
I’m a huge believer in the good that can come out of our anxiety. I believe that we too often dismiss anxiety as something bad. We are too quick to try and get over it, or bury it, or pretend it...
View ArticlePutting Down Our Masks: Living Authentically So Others Can See God in Our Lives
This week I’ve been working on an article for Fuller Youth Institute on the topic of failure. What do we do when our kid’s fail? Or more importantly, do we allow our kids to fail, or are we constantly...
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The Whole-Brain Child: Parents, How is Your Brain Functioning?
“As children develop, their brains “mirror” their parent’s brains. In other words, the parent’s own growth and development, or lack of those, impact the child’s brain. As parents become more aware and...
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Parenting with the Brain in Mind (Our Kid’s and Ours)
Last week I began a blog series exploring my experimentation with the parenting philosophy found in the book, The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind....
View ArticleBe the ‘Life-Giving’ Man That You and Others Deserve
Are you a ‘life-giving’ man? That is a question that I am often asked. It’s a term that I began to talk about in my last book, What it Means to be a Man. But I’ve begun to explore it more fully in the...
View ArticleFour possibilities that your anxiety could be a symptom of?
Did you know that anxiety is the most common mental illness in the United States for people age 18 and over? Or that affects 40 million adults (18% of the US population)? Did you know that only 1/3 of...
View ArticleWhat is your anxiety cutting you off from in your life?
When I was 11 years old and began to experience traumatic grief from the death of my mom from breast cancer after a five-year battle — my anxiety manifested itself in the form of stuttering. And...
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Rhett Smith 74: What Are You and Your Kid’s Expectations of this School Year?...
So if your day was anything like my wife and I’s yesterday, it involved walking our kids into their first day of school this year. My daughter starts 4th grade, and my son starts Kindergarten. And like...
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