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Believing What I Don’t Feel
The other day I was at a retreat for parents whose children were getting ready to receive First Communion. As part of a parent engagement session, a conversation was sparked […]
Exercise • Health
Why I Hate Exercise (and Working Out)
By now, almost all of us in this country are aware of the health crisis that exists. Obesity even in the youngest has skyrocketed in the past few decades. Type […]
Exercise • Health • Mental Health • Nature • Relationships
Feeling Warm Inside When It’s Cold Outside
As summer gives way to fall, and the colder climate moves in, many people find that their mood shifts with the season, and not for the better. Recently, I was […]
Exercise • Family • Health • Nature • Parenting
On the Trail With My Kids: Book Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from the book On the Trail With My Kids: From the Ohio River to the Mighty Mississippi. Further information, including the synopsis, can be found […]
Mental Health
Holding the Breath of Life
For most anyone who has ever flown commercially, you probably have experienced a particular phenomenon, as well expressed recently by a friend of mine as we were described trips that […]
Faith • Mental Health • Relationships
The Anxiety Dilemma: An Integrated Perspective to One of the Most Powerful Forces in the World
We begin with the foundation of Christianity, as noted in Matthew 22: 37-40. Jesus declared, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and […]
Health
The Slow Leak of Our Lives
We were sitting on the side of the road, just off I-70, and it was starting to feel like 2021 all over again. We had just completed our Colorado tour, […]
Exercise • Health • Nature
Two Centuries In One – From the St. Louis Arch to Downtown Evansville
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith – 2 Timothy 4:7 As I entered the darkness that morning with Andrew, and […]
Health
The Universal Principle of FID – Better Understanding Ourselves and Each Other
I recently spoke with a woman whose husband was diagnosed with cancer years ago, who had recently gone into remission. As we were talking, she relayed that despite the good […]
Faith • Health
Why We as Catholics Need to Reexamine Our Relationship with Food. Today
As Catholics, we pride ourselves on being protectors and pursuers of God’s design in the world. Even in situations that aren’t popular and are downright counterculture, Catholicism has long professed […]