New Title!
I have exciting news to share! My new book Love is Complicated, has a new title: Nothing Bad Between Us: A Mennonite Missionary’s Daughter Finds Healing in Her Brokenness. The new title has a special significance to me. At every goodbye…
Personal Transformation: Is Forgiveness Enough?
My father and I hurt one another. Deeply. He was an angry disciplinarian. I was a horribly rebellious child. You can imagine the rest. Fortunately, we found mutual forgiveness several decades before he died — for ourselves and for each other. “Doa ess nuscht…
Your Authentic Life: Talking about Things that Matter, Matters — Now More than Ever
I just finished interviewing ten extraordinary people for the upcoming season of my podcast Becoming Who You Truly Are. The theme of the season is Forgiveness and Reconciliation. We talked about things that matter, like forgiveness and reconciliation in the face of racism, rape, war…
Personal Transformation: Don’t Shortcut the Process of Forgiveness
We’ve all heard the advice: Forget your past hurts and move on with your life. On the surface, it sounds pretty good. But I don’t think it works most of the time. My guest on this week’s podcast is Mary Lou Bonham, a…
Your Authentic Life: What Do We Really Know about Ourselves and Others?
This week, I’ve explored the reasons we hide parts of ourselves from others, and the consequences of doing so. One of the most brilliant models for exploring what parts of ourselves we hide from others and from ourselves, is the Johari Window, developed by…
“Love Endures” – My Interview with Mary Lou Bonham
My Sister Mary Lou and I – She’s the Cute Little Curly-Haired Blond I’m pleased to bring you the thinking of Mary Lou Bonham, a psychotherapist who also happens to be my sister. She and…