by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Feb 2, 2020 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships
“But I just want to be happy – why can’t that just be easier?” That was the statement from my teenage daughter during one of “those” discussions about life, the future, responsibility, success, etc. I feel for her. It can’t...
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 | Jan 20, 2020 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
Anxiety, Depression, Bi-polar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Eating Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism, Dementia, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. All very different mental illnesses with one thing in common: they have defined...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 12, 2020 | Affair Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health
“I cannot” – that’s readily said, so quickly and so easily, it hardly requires a thought, only a motion of the tongue. And a possibility is dead. How would it have been, if it had stayed alive? Would it have made the unexpected...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jan 5, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Meaning, Mental Health
We are almost a week into the new year – a time where many of us are still pushing hard to move forward with those big resolutions, or maybe reviewing where we may need to adjust our goals. Everyday life isn’t always about “The Big Goal”,...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Dec 29, 2019 | Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
With only a few days left in 2019, many of us begin to look at goals for the new year, we talk of “resolutions”. Any day is a good day to set a new goal, to look to achieve something, to grow beyond what we once were. But the beginning of a new year seems...