by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | May 3, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Marriage, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships
You may have heard me say this before, but “normal” is not a point along a spectrum with a defined set of criteria. No, “normal” is the spectrum itself. There is a wide range of “normal” that is considered to be within acceptable...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Apr 26, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
Many times in my reading, I find an author who expands on my thoughts or ideas in a much more powerful way than I ever could. That happened this morning, so I thought I would share it with you – it’s similar to what I have been writing about throughout...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Apr 5, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth
If you read my Monday morning email last week, you know that this site was hacked, and I almost lost the whole thing – several years of articles and blog posts and all the related information that promotes my practice. Obviously, I didn’t lose it,...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 26, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Spirituality, Substance Abuse, Wellness
In our stressed-out, 80-hour work week, 5-hours of sleep per night, skip meals, work smarter not harder, hyper-connected, teched out world, we’ve recently started to hear more about “self-care” – the idea of taking time for yourself. As a...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Oct 6, 2019 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health
I’ve been having this one idea present itself in different ways, almost every day, for the past few weeks. I’ve been reading (skimming) a couple of books – Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, business guru and Patrick Lencioni, and Viktor Frankl’s...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Sep 8, 2019 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Spirituality, Wellness
To move the family or stick it out where you are? Take the new job or keep plugging away? Fight THIS battle, or let it go? Go back to school or stay in your current role? Work on the relationship, or end it? Discipline the child, or talk it out? We are faced with...
