Excerpts of Articles by John Reardon

CONSULTING

Summary For Emotional Intelligence – “While emotional competence is twice as important for competence and success in all jobs and every field, at the highest levels of leadership it virtually is the entire advantage.”
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Family Law and Prisoner’s Dilemma – “Throughout, the intent of this article has been to assist attorneys in Family Law to have a deeper clarity regarding the practice of their craft. Further, in keeping with the AAML goal “to make divorce less harmful”, hopefully, future clients will receive professional legal care that minimizes turmoil and harm.”
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SPIRITUALITY

Anam Chara – A New Model for Marriage – “If the stats are correct, and 50% to 60% of first marriages, and 40 – 50% of second marriages participate in one or more of these “attitudinal” beliefs, then we must do something different and better.”
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Who is God? – “God is – that which my whole life tends toward, that which is for me most real.”
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Recovery of our Psyche – “When will we balance treatment with prevention? When will we travel upstream to work at the larger systemic issues driving treatment? When will we jettison our labels, empirical data, and diagnostic codes and focus on the person? When will we switch from treating “it is” to probing and “humanizing” its purpose?”
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Turas In Eirinn – 2007 – “Words. We are going on a journey (turas) to a land that loves and embraces words (Ireland). While there, we will visit many sites and walk the land. In order to fully seize the moments we are given, it is important to encounter and grasp a few Gaelic words."
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Growth, Therapy and Holiness – “While it seems more acceptable today for psychologists, who are supposedly scientists, to entertain things of the “spirit”, it is usually discouraged. Science and religion were separated in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. For many of us, that separation never worked.”
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Celtic Views – Turas in Eirinn – “The Irish Celts have an abiding optimism about us as people – the light of God in us is deeper than any wrong in us. Following from that, redemption is the setting free and release of that goodness and Christ in us. And it is the church’s purpose to liberate and free the goodness of God contained within. Thus the church is the liberator, not the custodian of salvation. Salvation is happening here and now, not at some future point.”
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THERAPY

Marital Therapy Research – “Marriage is based on a deep sense of “primacy”. (“After myself, you are the most important person in my life.”)
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Growth, Therapy and Holiness – “While it seems more acceptable today for psychologists, who are supposedly scientists, to entertain things of the “spirit”, it is usually discouraged. Science and religion were separated in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. For many of us, that separation never worked.”
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Vision of Marriage and Family – “Our vision for marriages and families is to: Be life-giving with each other, be faithful to each other in struggle, remain engaged in joy and difficulty, and to celebrate each other.”
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Seven Roadblocks Parents Encounter – “During seven years of ministry work with Pax Christi families, we have, as a group, identified seven very compelling roadblocks to effective parenting. What we have found interesting is that parents buy into these without thinking them through. They sometimes self-impose these roadblocks. Our work has been to challenge these roadblocks and help parents free themselves to parent in balanced, effective and pointed ways.”
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Co-Dependence - A collection of information, questions and cartoons to help people recognize co-dependency.
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Watch Out For "Wet Blankets" - With all our experiences with marriages, there is an interpersonal dynamic that attacks thriving – “the wet blanket”. Here is how it goes…
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