“In 2001, I found myself in a marriage that was heading for divorce. This trauma is what introduced me to Resource Guidance Services and Christian Counseling Associates. I would have considered myself to have a good understanding of the Bible and Christian practices. However, what I didn't understand was, my spouse and I were attracted to each other because we both had childhoods that were very traumatic and painful. Even though, God was part of our marriage, with unresolved emotional baggage, there isn't a great chance of having a healthy satisfying marriage. I came to appreciate the relationship of the interfacing of the clinical and the theological. Each helps me to understand the other. Today, I am happy to say that I have good relationships and a sense of emotional wholeness that I never would have believed possible. Eighteen years later in 2019, I still attend a weekly men's group threw RGS that focuses on relationships. This provides encouragement, accountability and a greater chance that I will not regress to that person I was eighteen years earlier.”