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Depression from Partner Betrayal Trauma. This is a real deal. If this is the first time you’re reading about Partner Betrayal Traum, your trauma from your spouse’s choices of betrayal are 100% real. What you’re experiencing is real. Thousands of people have told me over the course of 30 years, “I feel depressed, Dr. Weiss.

One of the most amazing things I ever discovered after I started coaching, mentoring and counseling men was that almost every problem a man has emotionally can be traced back to an emotional wound caused by his father. I think John Eldredge said it best in his bestselling book, Wild at Heart: “Every boy in

Today, I want to go through the four promises generally made in wedding vows. I take couples on a journey through these promises as a tool to evaluate/remind them of the specific promises that they made to one another and the meaning of those promises. I’ve found this exercise to be very helpful for intimacy

The fallen world is a never-sleeping juggernaut that relentlessly crushes everything in its path without pity—our dreams, our plans and our relationships. We fight back, but eventually the accumulation of thousands of unfair and unjust criticisms, insults, accusations, rejections, slights, innuendos, disrespect, gossip, offenses, bullying, getting overlooked, feeling kicked to the curb, being denied access,

Think back as to what words your soul was marinated in as a developing person. You and your spouse’s souls were marinated in words regularly and daily by your parents. Depending on if the primary ingredient of the sauce was criticism, silence or praise, you may have come into the marriage marinated in this certain

These were written at a time in my life when my daughter was about to take the biggest journey of her life in becoming a young woman of God. High school was over, and now she was walking onto a much bigger campus with many more people. There was one thing she would need on

At the beginning of 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall was working on building a sawmill near Sacramento, California, when he found gold. Although he and his employer tried to keep the discovery quiet, news started to spread. Sam Brannan, a shop owner in nearby San Francisco, looked to cash in—not by mining, but by

Trauma is common to most sex addicts. It may have been emotional, spiritual, physical or sexual abuse and/or neglect. Trauma comes in many shapes, sizes and forms. It is a very important piece in your psychological recovery. Being a victim of trauma, abandonment and neglect myself, I have had to work through trauma personally and

As a counselor, I have helped many people grieve many different events or realities in their lives. In grief counseling, the model for grief comes from Elisabeth Kübler Ross, who studied people dying. She identified the grief stage as: shock, denial, anger, bargaining, sadness and acceptance. The very first stage of grief is shock. Shock

God’s man casts his emotions on a caring God; he does not conceal them. To hide what’s really going on inside is ungodly and gives increasing control to Satan. Study the film of Cain and Abel in Genesis. One brother’s attitude and motivation are off; the other’s are right on. God sees the perceptions Cain’s

In our family, we intentionally have tried to help our children feel happy at home. Over the years, we’ve used board games, pool and foosball tables, a zip line, themed family nights and special family outings for them to look forward to. Our ultimate goal is for family life to be fun and memorable, and

Too often, we ask men to conform to our Christian men’s subculture as a show of spirituality. “Use these buzzwords.” “Pray with this posture.” When this happens, we often end up asking men to be religious at the expense of being spiritually transformed. Or, we ask them to perform certain activities to show their commitment

As a Christian, you’ve heard the prodigal son story (Luke 15: 11-32) preached time and time again. However, I’ve never heard anyone really explain the power of intentionality in this story: Then He said, “A man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property

“Dr. Weiss, why do I hurt so badly? It feels like all of me hurts inside and out.” I have heard this question thousands of times in my 30-plus years of caring for partners of betrayal trauma. These women come from every walk of life—every color, every age, every religion and on every continent. A

One of my favorite shows on television was Parenthood. Honestly, I was probably too emotionally invested in the show. I would talk to fellow fans about the characters like they were real people. It followed a family called the Bravermans. The show centers on the four grown-up siblings trying to figure out the ups and