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what can cross-cultural relationships teach you?

What Can Cross-Cultural Relationships Teach You?

April 3, 2024 — Veola Vazquez

Long-term friendships can be difficult to maintain over time but also have the potential to teach us so much. When those friends come from a different culture, those differences can draw you even closer when you explore them together. How do you do that? What should you be aware of?

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: What To Do With Personality Tools

March 25, 2024 — Alisa Grace, Chris Grace

In this week's episode, CMR Co-Directors Dr. Chris and Alisa Grace discuss how personality impacts our relationships, and offer practical ways we can use personality tools to better understand ourselves and others.

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How & When Should I Be Vulnerable?

March 13, 2024 — Aundrea Paxton

Being vulnerable is an important part of relationships but that doesn't mean it is easy. How do you know when it is safe to share personal, vulnerable parts of you with someone else? Take a look at this video!

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10 Steps To Take When A Good Relationship Starts To Go Bad

February 7, 2024 — Chris Grace

Read Dr. Chris Grace's blog to discover three key differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships, and 10 things you can do when a good relationship starts to go bad.

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Relational v. Transactional Connections

January 17, 2024 — Jennifer Jones

Are your relationships transactional? In today's blog, marriage and family therapist Jennifer Jones discusses the difference between relational and transactional connections and outlines five steps to proactively deepen relationships.

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An Unorthodox Way To Be A Good Friend: When It's Just As Important to ReceiveĀ As It Is To GiveĀ 

December 27, 2023 — Aundrea Paxton

In this week's blog, clinical psychologist Dr. Aundrea Paxton offers an unorthodox way of being a good friend by examining the potential for false humility in relationships, encouraging individuals to pursue Christ-like receiving in friendship.

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When the Friendship Well Seems Dry

November 14, 2023 — Aundrea Paxton

In this week's blog, clinical psychologist Dr. Aundrea Paxton addresses this common struggle by offering a Biblical guideline for how to practically develop life-giving friendships.

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Invisible Threats

October 31, 2023 — Chris Grace

In the final video of this three-part series, Dr. Chris Grace explains the nature of those attacks and how you can fight back with supernatural help.

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3 Ways To Ruin An Apology

June 21, 2023 — Jana Anderson

In this todays blog, CMR Co-director, Alisa Grace and Dr. Jana Anderson offer three examples of ruining an apology and explain how and why to avoid these three practices when seeking forgiveness.

5 Signs of A Rock Solid Friendship, Part II

June 14, 2023 — Alisa Grace, Chris Grace

In part two of a two part podcast series, CMR Co-Directors Dr. Chris and Alisa Grace discuss the key role intimacy plays in friendship and offer the remaining signs to look for to grow your friendships into rock solid relationships

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