The Sanguine Husband

My husband is a fun-loving, easy-going, good-natured, spontaneous sanguine. We looked at the character traits of a sanguine as described by Art and Larraine Bennett in their book The Temperament that God Gave You. Gerhard describes what these traits look like in real life, the good and the bad of them, and offers some words of advice to other husbands and fathers who share his temperament.

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The Feelings We Try to Hide: Managing the Emotional Stress of Parenthood

As a parent (and I should add, as a wife) the negative emotions I encounter on a day to day basis can hit me suddenly like a landslide: feelings of anger, resentment, guilt, and overwhelming stress. Here I reflect on what it looks like to integrate our Jungian shadow, or our darker side, using the awareness of our negative emotions so that we can become a more emotionally balanced parent.

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