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Restoring Marriage After Pornography

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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Overcoming Negative Thinking

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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Battling Depression

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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How to Raise Resilient Children

Those of us over the age of 40 years old are probably familiar with the old saying, “children should be seen and not heard.” This philosophy of raising children has no doubt left emotional scars on many who grew up in households that put it into practice. New research conducted by the Emory University in…

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The Anatomy of a Good Christian Counsellor

One study conducted in the United States showed that 66% of the population would prefer that their therapist embrace spiritual beliefs. The growing popularity of Christian Counselling in Ottawa and across Canada may indicate that the percentage is as high in Canada as well. As the demand for Christian Counselling increases, more and more therapists…

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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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Forgiveness

Description Forgiveness involves mental, motivational, and emotional changes in a victim after experiencing a transgression or a violation of physical, emotional, or psychological boundaries. Forgiveness has been defined as being of two types, decisional and emotional forgiveness (Worthington, 2003). Decisional forgiveness is making a behavioral intention statement that gives up pursuit of revenge and intends…

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Anger

Description Anger is a God-given emotion that can be experienced and expressed in ways that can be healthy or unhealthy. The Bible has a lot to say about the emotion of anger. In fact, next to love, anger is the most frequently mentioned emotion in the Bible (Oliver & Oliver, 2007). It is first mentioned…

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Schizophrenia

What is schizophrenia? People with schizophrenia have a sense of reality that is very different from others around them–they see, hear, and feel things that others do not. To the person suffering from schizophrenia the hallucinations and delusions they experience are real. This leads to behaviors that appear strange to others. In addition to affecting…

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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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