by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Nov 5, 2011 | Grace
Divorce brings with it a host of emotions — anger, shame, hurt, sadness, betrayal. I think the last one is perhaps one of the most difficult feelings to process. When get married we stand before God and others, pledging our love to one another, we enter into a...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Oct 30, 2011 | Family, Newsletter, Slider
fter reading a letter today in Dear Abby, it occurred to me how quickly we jump to cutting off from others as a way to “solve” relational issues. The letter was written by a woman who had a problem with her aunt and her knee-jerk reaction was to stop...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Oct 19, 2011 | Grace, Spirituality
When you are going through a divorce, sometimes it feels as though you are on the outside, looking in. Many of my clients talk about the pain of feeling like an outsider, as though everyone around them is in a happy marriage. If they attend a church, they often feel...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Oct 15, 2011 | Grace, Spirituality
When I first began to research the topic of grief in divorce, I never expected to find evidence of God’s grace so prevalent in the stories I heard from the women I interviewed. Though they were sharing intimate details of confusion, pain and sorrow, I realized...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Oct 9, 2011 | Family, Slider
Changing arguments into creative conflicts It only takes one motivated person to change an argument into a creative conflict Be aware of your own physiology and emotional responses. On a scale of one to ten, how would your rate your emotional response? If it is an...
