Couples
Counselling and Finances
Life Transformations airs at 9:30 AM every Monday on CHRI family radio (99.1 fm in Ottawa, 88.1 in Cornwall and 100.7 in Pembroke). Featuring Michael Hart as host, this show highlights stories of life transformation, with testimonies of past clients and various guest speakers who work in the field of mental health.
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Loving an abuser – friends and family of the victim
Many of us may have heard a story about or know someone who has been in an abusive relationship. Some of the people reading this might even be able to identify as someone who has been in an abusive relationship themselves. For many people who find themselves in this situation, just leaving the relationship isn’t…
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What is Counselling Like?
This week’s radio show features part of the testimony of Nadrina Whatley, a volunteer with Elim Counselling Services. In studio with Michael Hart, she discusses some of the challenges she has faced in her life and her own personal journey with counselling. As a young girl, Nadrina was diagnosed with depression and forced to attend…
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Sex Addiction
This video explores the story of a couple whose marriage was ruined by sex addiction and the healing they experienced in turning to God. Watch this video on YouTube
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Couples’ Communication Part 2
Melissa Waggott joins Michael in studio for a continuation of their talk on couples communication. Life Transformations airs at 9:30 AM every Monday on CHRI family radio (99.1 fm in Ottawa, 88.1 in Cornwall and 100.7 in Pembroke). Featuring Michael Hart as host, this show highlights stories of life transformation, with testimonies of past clients…
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Couples’ Communication Part 1
Melissa Waggott and Michael Hart discuss a very important component of intimate relationships – communication. Effective communication is a crucial aspect of satisfactory relationships, and it is not as simple as people assume it to be. Michael points out that simply being present is not the same as listening, and talking with one another is…
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Loving Someone With Depression
Sometimes relationships start with an awareness of a partner’s current or past struggle with depression, and a good idea of the challenge the couple is entering into. Other times, the depression doesn’t exist or isn’t obvious until much later down the road. And, as was the case in my relationship, sometimes a couple may think…
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Is Christian Counselling Effective in Helping Couples?
Christian Counselling is now growing in terms of its popularity all around the world. Gone are the days when anything to do with religion was looked upon by psychologists and counsellors as being detrimental to one’s mental health. A plethora of studies have now shown that spiritual belief, a belief in a power greater than…
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Goodnight Kiss A “Thing of the Past”
The goodnight kiss is a thing of the past and most of us sleep with our backs turned to our partner, according to a new study. Eight in ten couples no longer kiss before nodding off. The research into our nocturnal habits suggests romance is now dead in British bedrooms. Indeed, a quarter of lovers…
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Sex: How Often Is Enough?
By: Letty in Education, Relationship & Dating (Posted February 11, 2011) Most people think other people are having more sex than they are. In truth, the only people having a whole lot of sex in my opinion are those in that dizzying first phase of romantic love when you are literally drugged by your own…
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