Jared Akers

Avoiding Family Drama Over the Holidays

The smell of turkey roasting in the oven. How wonderful. My wife and I decided to spend most of Thanksgiving day with just ourselves, here at home. It was fun getting up early, just the two of us and...

Live and Let Live: 9 Ways of Letting Go

Baby Steps: Climbing Mountains One Action at a Time

For the last several years I have been speaking once a month at a drug and rehab center; the same one which I had been a patient myself for alcohol. On the third Sunday of every month I would make...

Enhance Relationships With the 90 Second Rule

You’ve been at the office all day, as soon as you get home and walk in the door, you’re immediately hit with a dozen questions by a loved one. How do you react? What’s your initial feeling inside? If...

Learning My Fathers Love Language

These days when I talk to my father, he says I Love You. I do not have many memories of him saying that when I was younger, although I’m sure he did. Honestly, I only think he says it now as a...