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By Dan Blair, marriage counselor and family counselor I look back over my life and I think we can all say we have made major mistakes. We have weaknesses and flaws. I think about the major [...]

By Dan Blair Marriage Counselor and Family Therapist Welcome to the club. Triggers are strong emotions that overwhelm our ability to listen effectively and think clearly.  They are essentially [...]

Jesus was fully immersed in the identity, experiences and perspective of both God and man as mediator between the two. So for mediation to be successful, each has to identify with the experience [...]

By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. As a marriage and family therapist I have learned techniques to help marriages and family relationships work. The one that works best by [...]

By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. At times people think about how problems would be solved if they were married to someone else. Some problems may be solved this way, but [...]

By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. What are some criteria for effective listening in the Bible? Some seek to correct more than connect when “listening” and find [...]

Research by the Barna Group uncovered two surprising facts: (1) the majority of the nation’s non-churched are comprised of people, not who say they are not Christians, but who say they are, [...]

By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. Many choose to forgive because forgiveness has benefits for the forgiver. Forgiveness is a canceling of a “debt”. One can [...]

By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. While doing right leads to healthy relationships, the Bible also promotes the opposite: healthy relationships lead to doing right. Healthy [...]