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By: Christine Hammond LMHC William was ashamed and embarrassed. For years, he tolerated abuse from his wife yet he told no one. Knowing he would not strike back at her, she hit him, threw things at him, physically blocked him from leaving the room, and followed him when he did yelling insults. Sex was used as manipulation. If William did what she wanted, he could have sex. If not, there was no sex for months. He was so humiliated by the abuse that even when he entered therapy, he didn’t reveal what was happening. Instead, he minimized her rages as “disagreements”. But one day, after coming in with a fresh red mark on his face and looking visibly shaken by her latest outburst, he disclosed his reality. Just admitting the abuse was relieving but he had a long road ahead to recovery. All too often, the signs of domestic violence for men are dismissed. The old stereotype of an abuser being a male in a wife beater T-shirt is still alive. But in reality, abusers come f

 By Megan Brewer, IMH There is an awful lot we can learn from our experiences. After a sailing adventure my husband and I had with friends who were learning to sail, I reflected on the fact that too much control can have the opposite effect of what we hope to gain from it. Rather than gaining more control, we lose it. It is exciting to have an experience with someone who is learning something new. They have a wonderful way of bringing those around them into the experience and helping them see the wonder of a new world. This made our sailing adventure with our friends all the more fun. As we glided along the water, carried forward by the gentle wind in the sails, our friends taught us the mechanics and vocabulary of sailing. Learning to sail requires learning what seems like a new language and a whole lot of details about how the boat and wind work together. Of particular interest to me was the way a sailor must conceptualize the wind coming across the sails in order to

By Dwight Bain, LMHC Families are being quietly dismantled by technology. Much of what we call ‘family time’ has been replaced by screen time and screen time pushes relationships apart. When you consider the massive amounts of time family members face screens, instead of face each another it is easy to understand why more screen time creates more conflict. Consider –   8 to 10 year olds are online or in front of a screen almost 8 hours a day. Those aged 11 to 18 spend more than 11 hours per day according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Kids and teenagers ages 12 to 18 spend nearly two hours a day texting. Perhaps the scariest trend about how technology is reshaping the family unit came from research conducted in partnership with the reThink Group and Barna Research Group ( www.Barna.com ) who discovered parents frequently are as dependent on their electronic devices as their kids. They found 49% of parents worry about technology and media wast