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Our biological or adopted family will influence us in more ways than we can imagine. Our family can be a source of love and many blessings. Our family also can be a source of pain, abuse, frustration, anger, and fear. We learn ways of perceiving, attitudes, values, skills, spiritual beliefs, coping mechanisms, and emotional expression from our families. How has your family influenced you?
Do You Know What Parenting Style You Use?
Storytelling with Family
“Do you know what parenting style you use? While exploring this topic with parents, I have found that often people will parent their children the same way that they were parented..." by Carolyn Penniman
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MAN-ifest Destiny: Teaching Our Sons About Healthy Manhood
By Dr. Michael Obsatz - August 2017
"In this technological age, it is easy to get lost in noise, clutter, and machines, and lose face-to-face connections. What’s important may become trivial, and what’s trivial can seem very important. There are still limiting messages out there about what it means to be a “real man.”
Click HereThe ICING Can Never be the CAKE
By Dr. Michael Obsatz
"The cake. We are the cake. The cake means that we are complete, whole, and wonderful. We are loveable as we are..."
Click HereFormation, Conformation, Transformation, and Illumination
By Dr. Michael Obsatz - July 2022
"As children, we are taught to listen to our parents, obey rules, and conform to certain norms. These norms are created by a culture -- norms about gender, norms about appearance, norms about seeking approval, and norms about being accepted and popular..."
Click HereThe Fatherly Heart: Involved Fatherhood as Spiritual Practice - video
By Dr. Michael Obsatz
"Raising emotionally, physically and spiritually healthy sons and daughters is a crucial enterprise in creating a world of peace, love, and compassion."
Click HereStorytelling in Small Groups with Family
Reflection and Prompts
Quotations for Small Group Storytelling with Family
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Why Kids are Hurting – video
By Dr. Michael Obsatz
In this video, Dr. Michael Obsatz talks about why kids are hurting these days.
Click HereHelping Young Kids Overcome Shame
By Dr. Michael Obsatz
"Shame is very pervasive in America. Most people have some amount of shame. Some people have been hurt, abandoned, abused, neglected and ridiculed, and have enormous amounts of shame.."
Click HereLost: Understanding and Coping With Abandonment
By Dr. Michael Obsatz
"We hear a lot about abandonment. Infants are abandoned in front of churches. Victims of bullies are often abandoned when they come forward and tell their truth..."
Click HereBreaking the Parental Grip
By Dr. Michael Obsatz
