by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Mar 3, 2019 | Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health
Whether you made a mistake yesterday, or had something terrible happen to you as a child, you are not your past. You carry the weight of that mistake with you. You carry the memory of what may have been done to you. But it is not you. You can choose differently. You...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Oct 28, 2018 | Grief, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth
It’s easy to get up in the minutia of everyday life. Does this sound like your life? Wake up, brush teeth, pour some coffee, get the kids off to school, get to work, work (meaningful work hopefully), come home, dinner, tv, bed. Get up and do it all over...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Sep 16, 2018 | Depression, Grief, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting
…until it is destroying your home. Small dragons that sit on tables become gigantic dragons that destroy homes. That is the crux of Jack Kent’s children’s story. But it has very real meaning in the adult world: Daily drinking can become...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jul 23, 2018 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health
“The most important things are often the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” – Stephen King But it is still important to try. “I’m sorry.” “I forgive you.” “I love you.” “You hurt me.”...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jul 8, 2018 | Grief, Meaning
As I sat and listened to people share their fond memories, as I looked at the sea of individuals seated in rows for the service and remembered the overwhelming flow of people coming to pay their respects at the visitation the night before, I couldn’t help but...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jun 24, 2018 | Grief, Meaning, Mental Health
“Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation.” Pain, guilt, death. Frankl’s...
