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Karl

General Grief & Loss

Suffering – What It’s Not About

We do not know the reason God allows evil and suffering to continue, or why it is so random, but now at least we know what the reason is not. It cannot be that he does not love us. It cannot be that he does not care.   He is so committed to our ultimate happiness that he was willing…
Karl
May 16, 2025
New Life we grieve plant
General Grief & Loss

Suffering – Three Reasons God Allows It

BECAUSE GOD WON’T ROB US OF FREE WILL The problem of suffering is usually posed as a question: ‘If God is all-powerful and all good, why does he allow evil to exist in the world?’ Perhaps the most common response is known as the ‘free will defense’. After all, where does most of the evil in this world come from?…
Karl
May 16, 2025
Resilience Resources

Resilience Assessment – Exercise

This resource will help you understand what resilience really is and how resilient you are in the seven areas of resilience that are measured. After completing the questions and scoring it, I can help you interpret the results. The Resilience Assessment is from the work of Reivich & Shatte, The Resilience Factor, 2002.
Karl
May 16, 2025
Resilience Resources

Life Balance – Exercise

The Life Balance Exercise is designed to be take several times a year as you move through transitions of finding a better balance to all the important elements of your life. The genius of this tool is in its incremental approach to change. As opposed to huge wholesale changes that require massive amounts of energy, the Life Balance Exercise actually…
Karl
May 16, 2025
General Grief & LossResilience Resources

HeartMath Quick Coherence Tool

Would you be interested in a tool that would allow you to take back control of your response to stress? Instead of fight, flight or freeze, and the 1400 biochemical reactions that take place when your emotions shift from calm to stormy, it is possible to self-regulate your response to stress. You are not a victim to the upsetting circumstances…
Karl
May 15, 2025
MarriagePre-Marriage

Emotional Needs Questionnaire

One of the most important tools in the work of relationship building is the Emotional Needs Questionnaire. This tool will help you understand your own most important emotional needs and how to describe them, but also learn the most important emotional needs of your partner. With this information you will be able to better make deposits into their accounts in…
Karl
May 15, 2025
MarriagePre-Marriage

Basic Relational Concepts

Basic Relational Concepts Content Credit to Dr. Willard Harley, https://marriagebuilders.com If you apply the Basic Relational Concepts, you will do what most couples want to do, but have failed to do -- fall in love and stay in love. And that's what ultimately saves marriage -- restoring the feeling of love. Of course, it takes more than the feeling of…
Karl
May 15, 2025