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The following passage is from Henri Nouwen’s book, “The Inner Voice of Love”: Try to keep your small, fearful self close to you. This is going to be a struggle, because you have to live for a while with the “not yet.” Your deepest, truest self is not yet home. It quickly gets scared. Since…

Rick Nauert, Senior News Editor of PsychCentral.com just wrote a piece about a new grant from the Institute on Aging that will study the effects of caregiving on family caregivers. Prior studies suggest that caring for an elderly family member can be stressful and can even pose health threats to caregivers. Nauert writes: Steven Zarit,…

One of my favorite authors is Robert Wicks because, as a professor of Pastoral Counseling at Loyola University Maryland, he is constantly integrating spirituality with psychology, and offerings ways to prevent secondary stress, the pressures encountered by those who work in helping fields. One of his recent books is called “Prayerfulness: Awakening to the Fullness…

Robert Wicks includes an interesting questionnaire toward the back of his book, “Prayerfulness: Awakening to the Fullness of Life.” It is designed to help you gain perspective on how open, resent, and prayerful you are in your daily life; it should give you an indication of what is pulling you into the past or what…
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