Pope’s call for more family support
Pope Francis has asked Catholic universities and Catholic couples around the world to support the “Family Global Compact.”
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Importance of Work/Life Balance – Focus Session with Derek Boylen
Family Focus Podcasts Marriage and family counsellor Derek Boylen speaks about the importance of work/life balance. Never has this been so important, especially due to the difficulties we are experiencing after the pandemic. Work/life inbalance can lead to all sorts of stresses on families, financial and otherwise. Derek provides tips on what couples and families …
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A fine balancing act
Finding the right balance between work and leisure can be difficult. Australians reportedly work more hours than most people in other developed OECD countries but working long hours can increase stress and affect people’s health.
Benefits of being part of a community
In this Focus session of Figuring out Families with Derek Boylen, we explore community. The pandemic has revealed much about society today and how we live in community. When we are deprived of communion with our neighbours it can impact on our mental health, and test the sturdiness of our social fabric. Derek explains how …
Rollo’s community legacy
On a searing Gold Coast morning, my neighbour, Rollo Meyers, stood in his eponymous park in Runaway Bay, tipping water out of a wheelbarrow. The garden tools and spray bottles he stored in the tray clattered noisily to the rim as he angled the front braces toward the ground.
Faith and Spirituality in Families – Focus Session with Derek Boylen
In this podcast we explore how faith and spirituality effect relationships in the pressure of daily life.
Topics covered in this session:
The meaning of spirituality
Spirituality, faith or religion?
How we experience spirituality in the day-to-dayness of life.
Learning to see our family members with new eyes. How to behold them.
Opening space in your family for spiritual conversations to occur more naturally
Thinking about what you’d like to pass onto your children and how to be intentional
Finding people your family can journey in faith with.
First steps if you’re very new to this but want to explore faith and spirituality more.
My family’s faithful moments
At a little over 160 cm, I’m not tall but I’m also not short. And yet I find myself with two children, of which our eldest is 10 years old and now less than 8 cm from overtaking me. As I see him edging ever closer to my height, I’ve been heard to beg him in mock desperation, “Would you please stop growing?”