Whole-Brain Child Strategy #4: “Use It or Lose It: Exercising the Upstairs Brain” 27 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm

This last week we talked about the importance of integrating the upstairs brain with the downstairs brain, and strategy #4 continues with along this same theme. I love the idea in The Whole-Brain Chil...

Marriage Books That Will Change Your Life: #10 26 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm

Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy by Gary Thomas The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle by Mike Mason How We Love: Discover Your ...

Using the Hand Model of the Brain with Your Kids 23 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm

I’ve been talking a lot about the brain in my blog series on The Whole-Brain Child, so I thought it would be helpful to see a simple presentation by Dr. Dan Siegel where he presents a hand model of th...

Whole-Brain Strategy #3: “Engage, Don’t Enrage: Appealing to the Upstairs Brain” 14 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm

Marriage Books That Will Change Your Life 13 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm

What books on marriage do you recommend? I get asked that question a lot. Since I’ve spent the last 18 years working with couples in the context of church, community mental healthy and private pract...

Revisiting Strategy #2 of The Whole-Brain Child 12 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm

Last week I posted on Strategy #2 of The Whole-Brain Child, which is Name it to Tame It: Telling Stories to Calm Big Emotions. But since I posted that blog I’ve had a few people ask me if I could exp...

Whole-Brain Strategy #2: “Name it to Tame It: Telling Stories to Calm Big Emotions” 9 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm

I’ve taken a couple of weeks off from the blog, but that ended up being a good thing in terms of this blog series on the strategies in The Whole Brain Child. Why? Well, because we were gone on vacati...

Whole-Brain Strategy #1: “Connect and Redirect: Surfing Emotional Waves” 29 Jul 2013 | 05:58 pm

My wife Heather and I often look at things from a very different perspective. It’s not surprising that opposites attract, but sometimes those opposites can begin to push people in two different direct...

Brain Integration: Finding the Balance Between Chaos and Rigidity 26 Jul 2013 | 05:27 pm

Integrated: to make into a whole by bringing all parts together; unify. When things become integrated, is simply known as integration. In the Whole-Brain Child by Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson...

Brain Plasticity: In What Ways Are You Molding Your Child’s Brain? 24 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm

I used to believe that our brain was permanently hardwired and that was that. And however it was hardwired, then you were stuck with that brain. It wasn’t until I started working as a therapist at T...