Search Results pain Mental Health • Relationships Dec 1, 2025 Secrets Keep You Sick: A Conversation with My Dad on 45+ Years of Being an LCSW The conversation we won’t have is the progress we won’t make. It was a chilly, fall Sunday afternoon. I was sitting in our family room, talking with my dad, Jim […] Full Article Health Jul 15, 2022 ESC the Pain If there ever was something that human beings sought to avoid, it is pain. Whether physical, psychological, social, or even spiritual in nature, pain is certainly something that is both […] Full Article Faith • Health • Nature Oct 8, 2021 5 (Free) Keys to Coping with Pain I was sitting on the banks of a tributary of the Yellowstone River. My brother, two friends, and I were into day three of our epic adventure through Yellowstone National […] Full Article Health • Nature Sep 28, 2021 Yellowstone: Trekking Through the Heart of Beauty & Isolation For an audio version of the following illustrated print account of the Yellowstone trek, see this link: https://on.soundcloud.com/JVeq2 Day 1: September 8 Start Time: ~ 4:15 PM MST End Time: […] Full Article Faith May 8, 2020 The Pain of Obedience “Sometimes it just hurts to be obedient.” Earlier that morning, myself and almost 200 of my fellow male age groupers had rushed into the turbulent waters of Lake Erie at […] Full Article Health May 8, 2020 Painful Lessons of Healing “Not all pain is significant.” – Scott Jurek It was a cool, rainy Friday night. Rob and I had walked back to Amy’s parent’s house so we could get the […] Full Article Faith May 8, 2020 Learning from Struggles “The greatest battles we fight are the ones within us.” Recently, I attended a Global Leadership Summit, where I heard Erwin McManus, cancer survivor and author of a recent book, […] Full Article Exercise • Relationships Jan 15, 2019 To Injury Give Me Pardon I stepped outside on a frigid morning, with the wind chill below 20. As I took off on my usual Wednesday morning run, I did so with added hesitation. The […] Full Article Parenting Nov 9, 2018 Pain & Parenting: Lessons from the Opioid Epidemic A few months ago, I was having lunch with a friend. He mentioned a recent outpatient surgery that he had, and indicated that upon being discharged, he was given a […] Full Article Health • Nutrition Dec 25, 2017 Pain’s Promise, and the Promise with Pills Recently, I was watching a game on the tube when a Prilosec OTC commercial came on, featuring a portly Larry the Cable Guy (an actual user). As with previous TV […] Full Article More Articles All Articles