Category Archives: mental health

Real men … do cry.

I grew up out in the high plains near the Colorado border.  That’s out where real men don’t cry and everyone is “just fine.”  If a little boy did cry, he might hear, “You dry those tears up, buddy, or I’ll give you something to cry about.”So, you didn’t cry!  I grew up with well-meaningContinueContinue reading “Real men … do cry.”

Relational IQ can grow long after IQ (intelligence quotient)

Your raw intelligence doesn’t change much after your teens.Not so your relational intelligence.  Author Ken Sande calls relational intelligence “the ability to discern emotions and interests in yourself and others, to interpret them in light of God’s Word, and to then use this insight to manage your responses and relationships constructively.”Of course you have toContinueContinue reading “Relational IQ can grow long after IQ (intelligence quotient)”

Resolutions for good mental health in 2010

Here are 10 resolutions for good mental health in 2010 … from a lecture given way back in 1976 by a Wheaton College English Literature professor named Clyde Kilby.1.  Once a day I will look at the sky and remember that I am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things above and aboutContinueContinue reading “Resolutions for good mental health in 2010”