by mcl | May 4, 2015 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By Mollie Meeks I recently read that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. When contemplating this, I thought about an 18-year-old friend of our family, Anna Hill, who has been battling ovarian cancer this year, her senior year...
by mcl | Apr 7, 2015 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By Laurel Boyd, MA, LMFT, LPC One common thing that emerges in counseling sessions (both for individuals and in marriage counseling) is a deep need for connection. Actually, aside from knowing Jesus, I believe the deepest need humans have is for love and connection....
by mcl | Mar 2, 2015 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By Will McNeese It’s that time of year. The holidays are over and graduation is right around the corner. The training wheels are coming off and the implementation of your best efforts to raise a successful adult is about to begin! Sending your teenager to college is...
by mcl | Jan 20, 2015 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By Will McNeese Needless to say, a gap exists between today’s generation of adolescents and adults. Chap Clark, in his book, Hurt, states that “teenagers honestly seem to believe that adults are unnecessary. Yet it is an equally if not more deeply felt truth that...
by mcl | Dec 1, 2014 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By Will McNeese, LPC You may be experiencing the heavy burden of grief during the holidays. You are not alone. Grief is not an emotion, but a journey that contains many different emotions at different points along the way. We grieve when we experience loss. Grief is...
by mcl | Oct 1, 2014 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over
By Laurel Boyd, LPC, LMFTA Let’s say you are walking along one of the beautiful winding paths of the Natchez Trace on a gorgeous, fall day enjoying God’s creation. Suddenly, you misstep and take a very hard tumble. Thankfully, you don’t think anything is broken, but...