Mental health has officially moved from a hushed conversation into the mainstream spotlight. Millions of people across the country now carve out time each week to sit on a therapist’s couch—or log into a video call—to work through life’s challenges.

But if you look at the United States as a whole, what does that collective healing look like on a grand scale? If we were to zoom out and look at the national data, how many psychotherapy sessions actually happen across the country on any given day?

Do you feel lonely even around people, at home or at church? Learn why it happens, what Scripture says, and one small step toward real connection this week.

Small mistakes, loud inner critic? Learn to tell conviction from condemnation and rest in the grace of a God who fully accepts you in Christ. Start today.

Every other post in this series is about living with someone. This one is about whether you should.

Deciding to end a marriage is one of the hardest choices a person makes, especially for people who take vows seriously. If you're asking the question, you are almost certainly not being casual. Here are the criteria that help.

Most people married to a narcissist spend years trying things that feel logical and fair. Nearly all of them backfire, because they assume a partner who processes criticism, empathy, and conflict the way you do. The tactics below fail for reasons that follow directly from what we know about the pattern: fragile self-esteem, heavy defensiveness, and low reciprocity.

What the research says about performance-based religion and perfectionism, and how to get off the treadmill

If the last post felt discouraging, here is the useful part. You can't control a narcissist, but you can change how you show up, what you tolerate, and what supports you build around yourself. Those changes often shift the dynamic more than any argument ever did.

First, a safety screen. If your spouse threatens you, controls your movement or money, or has been physically violent, skip ahead to the last post. Managing the relationship isn't the goal in that situation. Your safety is.

If you're married to someone with strong narcissistic traits, you've probably asked some version of this: How can someone so charming in public be so cold at home? Why does a small comment set off a storm? Why does nothing I do ever seem to count?

The psychological literature has some answers. Understanding them won't fix your marriage, but it will stop you from making things worse.

Every marriage needs someone to book the flight, call the plumber, decide where the money goes this month, and make the call when a decision can't wait for both people to feel ready. Someone has to lead in a given moment — that's not the problem. The trouble starts when leading turns into ruling: when “I'll take care of it” becomes “I'll decide it, and you'll go along with it.” The line between the two isn't about who holds the pen. It's about what happens to the other person's voice once a decision needs to be made.

In Changes That Heal, Dr. Henry Cloud makes an observation that reshapes how many people understand their own pain: most emotional and psychological struggles aren't random. They trace back to a handful of core dysfunctions — patterns formed early, often without our awareness, that keep replaying in adulthood until they're named and addressed. Five of the most common are suppressing anger, suppressing sadness, feeling like we don't have a choice, feeling isolated from those we love, and always being one-down in relationships.

Insecurities will stay beneath the surface until the owner experiences sustained stress. Under such stress, depending on how the owner coped with stress as a child and how the owner learned to manage stress by watching adults around him while growing up, the owner’s insecurities may manifest in a variety of ways.

Family business is no laughing matter. When couples work together and experience a deterioration in their marriage, who do they turn to? Nearly all therapists and psychologists don’t know what to do with the business aspect of the client’s clinical picture. But at OnPath, this is different. We have deep experience in clinical psychology as well as business ownership and leadership. You can trust us to work seamlessly across both domains to achieve optimal healing for yourself, your marriage, and your business.