Recently, while staying in a hotel with my family, my 8-year old daughter and I went down to the pool. Because of COVID, it had been well over a year since she had been in the pool. While she has always been a fairly strong swimmer, the time away from the water and...

Alex Rankin, LMFT, LPC - Living Wholehearted Clinical Supervisor In 1997, a little known Italian actor and director named Roberto Benigni released the film La Vita è Bella, translated into English as Life is Beautiful, to international acclaim. Wikipedia describes the...

Human beings are a complex blend of body, mind and spirit. While we highly prize our ability to think and reason, and we rarely question physical sensations in our bodies, emotions are often considered with much more suspicion and apprehension.  In different...

Thanks for celebrating 10 Years of Living Wholehearted with us! Over the years in our counseling, coaching, and organizational development work, we have utilized many clinical, biblical, relational, and business tools and assessments to help bring about transformation...

Among the many curveballs that the pandemic threw business and organizational leaders this past year was an increase in turnover.   For some employees, navigating the uncertainty in 2020 meant holding onto their jobs longer than they were planning to. Now...

Jeff and Terra Mattson, co-founders of Living Wholehearted and co-authors of the book, Shrinking the Integrity Gap: Between What Leaders Preach and Live, were recently featured on the D6 Podcast with Randall House Publishers to discuss the important topic of...

Conflict is at the core of building intimate, healthy relationships at home, work, and in our communities. We don't like it, but the difference between unhealthy and healthy relationships is really a matter of successfully moving through conflict, rather than around...

It was a rare Saturday morning without kids in the house; the girls were away for a weekend with grandparents. After almost 20 years of marriage, we have learned patience, especially when it comes to prayer. Sometimes prayer leads to immediate clarity, and other times we pray for years before anything shifts. Once we get clarity from God and find unity in our spirits, we know it’s time. It might seem hasty to those outside our home, but for us, God’s timing is always right on time.