My family has the unique claim of being the March family from Little Women. That, or the closest thing to it: four sisters and their mother. Of course, each sister doesn’t line up quite perfectly with her counterpart in Louisa May Alcott’s book. There are strangely similar attributes though, like the fact that we tend…
Liam and Grace Galligan Propel Franciscan to New Records If cross-country success at Franciscan University of Steubenville has a name, it’s Galligan. You could say that the genes run in the family, with Grace and Liam Galligan earning a multitude of accolades, from 2018 AMCC Runners of the Year, to Liam’s two-year winning streak at…
Pastoral Counseling is beyond what anybody quoted in a textbook can tell you. Many people will debate that only the clergy can do pastoral counseling. Some even say that everybody does pastoral counseling because we are helping other people to become the “best-version-of-themselves.” This is what we do as pastoral counselors, but we do it…
Throughout this course, I’ve become more familiar with different possibilities for pastoral counseling techniques/methods and the contexts in which they may be appropriately utilized. From my perspective, the way in which pastoral counseling can be enacted varies widely. It is like a Gestalt. The particular pieces may be swapped out or re-arranged to meet the…
Many times throughout the day, we encounter facts, ideas, or individuals that will provide us with an opportunity to reframe a currently held belief. Reframing is a technique we are all familiar with despite whether or not the term is one you have heard before. It is the art and process of considering a situation,…