Tag: Marriage
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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Men and Mental Health- Podcast
Men and Mental Health Here is a podcast I did with the guys from mancertified.com. This is a podcast concerning depression, a man’s resistance to psychotherapy, marriage, parenting and mental health in our culture today. http://www.mancertified.com/mancertified-episode-10-steve-lee-men-mental-health/ Men and Mental Health-Podcast
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Autism, Fathers and Life
I facilitated a support group for fathers who recently had a child diagnosed with autism. This group was even more specific than that. Fathers with children under the age of three who had recently been diagnosed. Many of these men had never attended a group for emotional support and direction. Now, because of their child’s…
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Save Your Marriage-Friendship, part 2
In the previous post, How to Save Your Marriage, we began looking at basic guidelines for marriage. Save Your Marriage, part 2 goes a little deeper into the conversations that are necessary to untangle common problems. I thought I would give some examples of how that might look. I am not saying that there will…
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How to Save Your Marriage
To have this question, “ How to save your marriage?” means there is deep hurt and confusion in both partners. When I see a couple in therapy, I always assume each person is doing the best they can, given what they have and have not learned about relationships. I also know that almost all problems…
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Family Therapy
Family therapy re-balances the family. Usually, in this busy world families get fragmented. Each person has their own work, school, and interests. This is all good, but it can create distance and dissatisfaction when they get out of balance. Warmth and intimacy usually diminish during this time. Family therapy works to reverse this process. Family therapy…
