Good Clean Reads

“You can have no greater or lesser dominion than the one over yourself. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” -Leonardo DaVinci

Infidelity is a topic on just about everyone’s mind at some point in their relationship. Whether it lives as a quiet fear, a desperate fantasy or a shame-filled memory, the occurrence of infidelity is so frequent and widespread that it is one of...

Listen as Mark Gungorshares his candid and comedic approach to bringing more laughter and purpose to intimate relationships. Using the church as a base for marriage education, Mark dispels the myths of both the overly romantic or overly spiritual ideas that prevent people from doing the committed work of loving and caring for one another. This conversation will wake you up to the power and...

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues- it is the form of every virtue at the testing point.”  -C.S. Lewis

I can’t get the Stanford kicker, Jordan Williamson, out of my heart. Watching him struggle to maintain his composure with the game on the line, not once but twice and each time coming up short was for me the most heartbreaking moment of the game. He missed only two kicks in the whole...

“When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.”   -Eileen Caddy

These days I am starting over. All of the good habits that I could count on with ease are now feeling foreign. I am addicted to sugar in a way that I can’t remember. My...

Recently I have been having crazy sexual fantasies while making love with my partner. I don’t know if I should feel guilty or excited because when I just let them go, I get way more aroused and I can tell my partner is feeling it too. I can’t get myself to tell my partner and I wonder if this is some form of cheating on him. I am not always thinking of someone else, just other crazy scenarios....

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T. S. Eliot

I sometimes wonder if the reason I have for so long embraced the motto “You never fail until you quit” is because I am so unskilled at endings. I feel like the tire that is stuck spinning in a muddy rut when it is time to move on. I have the will, the engine...

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. “  -Bertrand Russell

Some doubts carries wisdom and insight. Having the capacity to reflect on our life choices and experience with intellectual honesty is a gift that brings you more deeply in touch with your feelings and more honestly able to assess where you are in...

There might be no more perplexing part of life than Making Sense of People.  Listen as author and well known Psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Barondes explores the mystery of the developing brain and the ways that our behavior is built into us. His four step method for deciphering the complex and sometimes challenging behaviors of those that we both love and love to hate. Gaining a deeper understanding of...