Advice in Love Relationships

Has Christmas been lost to commercialism? To Santa Claus and expectations about gifts? To the stress of getting the right present, sending cards, decorating the tree and your house, fixing a meal that everyone enjoys? Have we lost the birth of Jesus Christ and His message for the world? Are we focused on what other people think of us– like the gift we gave?
Do you realize that your idea of God will determine your life? That who you are is more powerful than what you …

Part 3 of Hope: the Story of King Theo and Lydan the Sage
“Your idea of God will determine your whole life.”—Emmet Fox
“If you pray and meditate and sit quietly in silence,” replied Lydan, “if you empty yourself sufficiently so as to die to your self, if you give up knowledge and power and can be just who you are, then one day it may happen that you will awaken from the dream to enter a new and wondrous world. Your life …

“Govern a big country as you would fry small fish” (they become paste with constant turning) —- Lao Tzu
And so it was that for many months King Theo visited each month with Lydan, telling him first about the problems of his kingdom, then about his troubles with his counselors and the Court, and finally about his difficulties with the queen and his family. When the king ran out of things to say Lydan encouraged him to pray and taught him the art of daily meditation. Even though he …

I am Doug Welpton. I am a Board certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. For more than forty years I have focused on helping individuals and couples with relationship issues both through counseling and leading workshops.
I graduated from Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. I began to develop my expertise in family therapy starting with a two year Clinical Fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD following my residency training in psychiatry at Harvard, where I was a Teaching Fellow in …