Dr. Derek J Dawson M.D.
Munster, IN:
Looking to strengthen your relationship? This may be the answer
Just like shared friends bring couples closer, so can this mutual interest.
Stress management: How to strengthen your social support network
Learn to manage stress and improve your emotion and physical well-being by nurturing supportive relationships and building your social support network.
Can Attachment Theory Explain All Our Relationships?
The most important parenting you’ll ever do happens before your child turns one — and may affect her for the rest of her life. One mother’s journey through the science of attachment.
How to Strengthen Family Bonds When You're Staying at Home
Staying at home and feeling bored with your kids? Here're 10 fun family activities to do at home that will help strengthen your family bonding.
raising godly children in a broken world eight tips to strengthen their walk
Raising godly children in a broken world is the hope of most Christian parents. Tips to increase the odds that your children will continue to walk with God.
Teenagers need to know where love stops and abusive relationships start
Young people should be taught the difference between real romance and coercive control, says author Holly Bourne
How can we strengthen faith formation classes?
Children can flex their learning muscles and begin to talk more deeply about their faith with a more “conversational” catechesis.
How Giving Data Strengthens Your Discipleship Path
Giving and generosity are clear and measurable indicators of discipleship. Churches with an effective discipleship path use giving data to track impact of their ministries and spiritual growth.
How to Strengthen Your Child's Emotional Intelligence
When emotions run high, people do and say things they normally would not. When you're a young child, this is what you do all the time. Emotional self-regulation, a large...
The Surprising Way Metaphors Will Strengthen Your Speeches
The human mind – especially the unconscious human mind – is still mostly a mystery to us, its owner. Neuroscience is helping to push back the boundaries of puzzlement; however, we have a long way to go. Psychology professor Adele Goldberg at Princeton University is doing her bit to help increase our understanding. In part, …
Council Post: How Leaders Can Strengthen Their Mental Immunity
By taking these steps, you can better cope with hardships and emerge on the other side of a crisis stronger than you were before.
How to create a well-rounded learning routine
When children engage with the same concept in different ways, it strengthens their understanding of…
7 tips to strengthen the mind through identifying and overcoming implicit bias
Science explains that our minds are like icebergs: Our conscious awareness represents 10% of the iceberg above the surface of the water, and our unconscious awareness represents 90% of the iceberg unseen below the surface of the water. We are not aware of 90% of our thoughts/brain functions, which are unconscious—by definition.
How to Help Teenage Girls Reframe Anxiety and Strengthen Resilience
Sometimes anxiety and stress reach levels that impede a girl’s ability to navigate life effectively. Dr. Lisa Damour has tips for parents and teens to help manage these situations.
How is your relationship with the Holy Spirit?
The feast of Pentecost gives us a unique opportunity to reflect on our own relationship with the Holy Spirit. Of the three persons of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit is often the least understood…
Five signs you’re dating a psychopath and how to leave them
A couple of weeks into the relationship, you feel lucky. Finally, it is your turn. You know your life will never be the same — because you have fallen for a psychopath.
7 Ways to Maintain Relationships When You’re Depressed
How Terrorist Attacks Influence Mental Health
The paradox of the fear that terrorist attacks inspire, is that while it can negatively affect people and societies, it can also strengthen resilience.
What are Healthy Relationships?
God is not building ministries, He is building a Body, where every part is interconnected. This connection comes through healthy relationships, but what do h...
Seven Steps to Strengthen Prayer
A deep prayer life is difficult to maintain, but it’s also greatly rewarding. Consider seven steps to take this year to help strengthen your prayers.
Relationship Evangelism: How Do We Do It?
Pastor Den gives 3 tools for doing relationship evangelism: testimony, explaining Scripture, and the Romans Road.
