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by Rhett Smith on August 11, 2010
Last week I shared with you some of my thoughts from my talk at the ECHO Conference. In the post, Is Your True Sense of Self And Identity At Risk As You Navigate An Online World I explored more in depth some of the technological hindrances to self and identity in an online world…so today [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 11, 2010
“Without truth there can be no intimacy, because without truth you wind up sharing lies or delusions. Without intimacy there can be no relationship. When two partners share their true selves, protecting self and others by the correct practice of boundaries, the miracle of spirituality is present.” (The Intimacy Factor, pp. xvi) Those words are [...]
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by Rhett Smith on April 5, 2010
[image by sass_face] Let me start this post with an example. I’m the type of person who if I’m going to try and be disciplined about not eating junk food, then it’s much better I tell my wife if we just don’t buy and have junk food in the house, rather than me trying to [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 22, 2010
[image by globevisions] One of the things that seems to be a common trend among couples I work with in therapy is that there is an assumption about the relational boundaries that each of them will/are keeping. There is an assumption, but rarely something they have ever actually discussed. I think they are rarely discussed [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 5, 2010
I really appreciate Chad and Sarah opening up so much of their life with us this week. One of the reasons that I wanted to interview them was because I think that their story is, and can be so helpful to many other couples out there — and on so many levels. And if you [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 3, 2010
To read part 1 of my interview with Sarah and Chad Markley, read here. In the interview today, I really wanted to focus on some of the questions that arose for me as I read Sarah’s blog posts about their story. It was in these blog entries that I really got a sense of a [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 2, 2010
There are people online that I have never met in person, but that I feel like I know them. And those people I one day look forward to meeting in person. Just two of those people are Chad and Sarah Markley. I randomly came across Chad online one day because we were following each other [...]
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by Rhett Smith on November 18, 2009
[image (47/365) :: Saga] Triangling Facebook Into the Marital Unit Often I find myself working with a kid in therapy whose parents have brought him/her in because of the problems they are creating in the family. In therapy/counseling terms that kid has become the identified patient. In short, the identified patient is: The family member [...]
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by Rhett Smith on November 17, 2009
[image by soundlessfall] Earlier this summer I was contacted by Irving Bible Church in Las Colinas, TX to write an article on technology for their monthly magazine. After talking with the editor at length we eventually agreed upon a topic that we thought would be of importance to the readers — We came up with [...]
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by Rhett Smith on October 2, 2009
Running, Technology and Clarity… You can check out my guest post at John Dyer’s blog, Running Without All the Noise. These are some thoughts on why running without music is beneficial, and I encourage you to give it a try. Marriages, Technology and Facebook… You can check out my guest post at the online version [...]
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