Dr. Rick’s Blog
An LDS shrink talks about life.
Successful Sinners
THE GOLDEN QUESTION Forty eight year-old Joe had been masturbating and viewing porn for several months BEFORE his wife accidentally discovered a credit card charge for some explicit porn in a random email. With tears in her eyes and a broken heart she confronted him...
read moreGod’s Love Chemicals
FIRE! Fourteen year-old Joe had three felony sex charges. He was also the Teacher's Quorum President in his ward. I was doing the Sexual Behavioral Risk Assessment. At the time Joe and I were sitting in lock-up. He would be there until I finished the eval. Upon...
read more“A Time to…” Shut Up!
"A time to keep silence, and a time to speak" Ecclesiastes 3:7 Three times just today I've counseled another individual to "SHUT UP!" They each -a husband, a mother, and grandmother- shared their personal concern. I listened. We discussed a recipe for change. Each...
read morePleasures of Sin
LEFT OR RIGHT? It was one in the morning. Seventeen year old Joe just got home. Everyone was already in bed. He was feeling pretty crappy again. In recent weeks he's been trying to quit smoking spice and messing around with girls. He has been feeling guilty about...
read more“The Safest Road To Hell…”
The Message of the First Presidency to the Church -1942 "Satan is making war ... He plans to destroy liberty and freedom-economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and the most complete tyranny that has ever...
read moreI Dare You
TAKING RISKS "Just relax and step back to the edge of the cliff and lean back ...." My cousin reminded me how safe rappelling was as he clipped me into the climbing gear. I'm scared of heights so I needed the reminder. He reassured me my first rappelling experience...
read moreFive To Survive
Typhoon! And the XIII World Boy Scout Jamboree in Japan had just begun. Sitting in our tents at the foot of Mt. Fuji on Asagiri Heights, most of us, heard the mobile loudspeakers begin to blaze: “Prepare for evacuation. All sub-camps requiring evacuation , get ready....
read moreGod loves you THIS MUCH!
John Albert Taylor (June 6, 1959 – January 26, 1996) was convicted of sexual assault and murder in the state of Utah. Taylor's own sister tipped off police in June 1989 after 11-year-old Charla King was found raped and strangled to death in Washington Terrace, Utah....
read moreCounselitis
Recently, a middle aged gentleman made a counseling appointment. He told the story of his teenage prodigal son. His son had problems in school, was using alcohol, and absolutely refused to go to Church. The father acknowledged he has been busy with his job and his...
read moreYou Get What You Faith For
Faith is power "Negative or Positive" - You choose “Dad, I don’t have any place to stay. They kicked me out… I’ve lost my job again. I’ve been in IHOP now for 5 hours waiting for someone to come get me. I don’t have any more money. Dad, you have to come get me, now!”...
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