What makes a family a “good family?” What is it that characterizes those families where members live and grow in love and harmony? Where conflict is kept to a minimum and caring for each other is practiced enthusiastically. One…

  Habits. You cannot live without them. They make life easier for us because they pretty much regulate our behavior. Habits are ingrained learned ways of doing things. Watch a little child try to brush his teeth. We say he…

“There was a time when I was at a loss as to what to do with my life. I was deeply depressed, sleeping for twelve or thirteen hours a day . . . a sort of adult-onset narcolepsy. I think…

       There is the mistaken belief about God that when we offend Him, He walks away from us and leaves us on our own. Not true. We do not control God’s behavior. We cannot dictate God how He…

       Addicts don’t become serious cases overnight. It takes a while. After they get into drugs, their lives start to fall apart and they go from bad to worse until they drop out of mainstream society. What makes…

       I have deep respect for Conrado De Quiros, a former columnist of TODAY who now writes for the Inquirer. He has written some wonderful and hard-hitting pieces. His June 6 column, however, is one that I take exception to.…

There is little doubt that strong social pressures exist among young people who come into close contact with drug takers to also use drugs. It is at this time when many adjustments have to be made as teenagers transition into…

  You have perhaps read a lot about drug addiction, but you might not know that new information about the damage done to addicts is being made public all the time.  For example, new findings from researchers state that “drug…

  Most of us have problems with self-esteem and self-confidence. For so many reasons, we struggle from childhood and through our teen years and even into adulthood to convince ourselves that we are valuable and precious.   But if anyone…