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"Maximizing Your Most Important Relationships" Whether you’re looking for healing, growth, or encouragement, you don’t have to walk alone.

About Doing Family Right
Doing Family Right (DFR) is a faith-based counseling and recovery ministry helping people strengthen their most important relationships—marriage, family, and faith. Through individual, couples, and family counseling, recovery groups for sexual addiction and betrayal trauma, and practical online resources, we provide real hope and real tools for lasting change. Our mission is to help you build a stronger marriage, a healthier family, and a deeper walk with God—one step at a time. Doing Family Right: Helping you maximize your most important relationships.

12/30/2025

As this year comes to a close, it’s easy to feel pressure to have answers, clarity, or a plan for what’s next. But growth rarely starts with everything figured out.

Sometimes it begins with honesty. Noticing what this year stirred up. With naming what felt heavy and what quietly shaped you.

If this season has left you tired, uncertain, or still carrying questions, you’re not behind. You’re human.

As we head toward a new year, give yourself permission to move forward with grace, not pressure. One step at a time is enough.

12/25/2025

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from all of us at Doing Family Right.

This season invites us to slow down and focus on what matters most. Whether you are gathered with family and friends, spending time with a few close loved ones, or finding yourself navigating the holidays quietly and on your own, you are not forgotten.

At Doing Family Right, our heart is to help people strengthen their most important relationships and to find hope and meaning in every season of life. Christmas reminds us that love shows up in simple ways, in presence, kindness, forgiveness, and grace.

Above all, we remember the reason for the season. The gift of Jesus, born to bring light, hope, and peace to a weary world.

May you experience comfort, connection, and hope this Christmas.

12/23/2025

Looking for ways to make this Christmas more meaningful?

On our website, you’ll find a collection of Christmas-themed articles designed to help couples and families slow down, refocus, and reconnect during the holiday season. From strengthening your marriage to intentionally passing on your faith, and from refreshing family traditions to turning Christmas inward toward what truly matters, these reflections are meant to encourage and inspire.

If you’re longing for a Christmas that feels deeper than the busyness and brighter than the noise, we invite you to explore these resources.

For Facebook: Read more here: https://www.doingfamilyright.com/category/holidays/

12/20/2025

For many people, the holiday season can stir up grief, sadness, or a heaviness that’s hard to explain.

In this week’s reel, Merri Ellen Giesbrecht, Certified Life Coach (MSLC), shares a faith-centered perspective on depression and grief. She reminds us that our emotions are important messengers, helping us understand what’s happening in our hearts. But they were never meant to carry us on their own.

Rather than leaning solely on our own understanding, Merri Ellen encourages us to invite God into our pain and allow Him to minister to our hearts as He walks with us through the journey.

If this season feels heavy, you’re not alone. There is space to bring your grief, your questions, and your weariness to God, and to trust Him with each step forward.

12/16/2025

The greatest gift you can give your family this Christmas is faith lived out at home.

More than the presents, the traditions, or the perfectly planned moments, what shapes our children most is what they see lived out day after day. When faith is practiced in everyday moments through grace, forgiveness, generosity, and love, it becomes real and lasting.

Christmas is a beautiful opportunity to slow down, refocus on Christ, and intentionally model what it looks like to put God at the center of family life. These moments, both simple and sacred, are the ones your children will carry with them long after the season ends.

Read more from this article written by Dr. Dave Currie by following this link: https://buff.ly/Y3UvZVv

12/13/2025

DFR Counsellor Rachelle Siemens (MA, RCC) shares that trust is rebuilt through consistency in the small things. Doing what you say you will do, when you say you will do it. Choosing reliability over overpromising. Following through even when it feels inconvenient.

Trust grows when words and actions begin to match again. One moment at a time, one commitment at a time.

12/09/2025

Looking to bring new meaning, joy, and connection to your Christmas season?

Here are five simple, meaningful traditions to help your family refocus and reconnect this year:

1. Open your home
Invite friends or family in and go deeper together. Share memories, gratitude, and finish with a moment of prayer or reflection.

2. Open your door
Get outside as a family. Go skating, tobogganing, carolling, hiking, or create a Christmas scavenger hunt. Make memories in God’s creation.

3. Open your table
Welcome someone who might otherwise spend Christmas alone. A single parent, a student, a neighbour. Share your meal and God’s love.

4. Open your wallet
Give generously as a family. Sponsor a child, donate to a local charity, or bless another family in need. Let giving shape your season.

5. Open your heart
Slow down and reflect on the meaning of Christmas. Read Luke 2 together, pray as a family, or celebrate Jesus’ birth in a simple, heartfelt way.

Read the full article to get all of the ideas: https://buff.ly/YuUlGzU

12/06/2025

Anxiety and depression grow in silence.
Healing begins when we speak.

In this week’s reel, counsellor Anna Brotzel, MA, RCC explains why sharing your struggle with someone is one of the most powerful steps you can take on the road to recovery.

You deserve support. You deserve to feel better.
And opening up can be the beginning.

12/02/2025

Choosing compassion over resentment. Forgiveness is where healing begins. Every act of grace opens the door to restoration.

11/29/2025

Rules without relationship equals rebellion.

DFR Counsellor Cam Broad, reminds parents that building connection comes before correction. When kids know they’re seen, known, and loved, they’re far more likely to listen and trust your guidance.

A strong relationship is the foundation for healthy boundaries, not the other way around.

11/25/2025

Healthy relationships don’t happen by accident, they grow from the values we build our lives on.

At Doing Family Right, these seven core beliefs shape everything we do: how we counsel, how we care, and how we support individuals, couples, and families across the Fraser Valley.

Swipe through to explore the values that guide us, and know this:

You were created with purpose.
You are deeply valued.
Your relationships matter.

If you’re looking for support in Abbotsford or Chilliwack, we’re here for you.
Your next steps can be your best.

11/21/2025

When kids are struggling, what they need most isn’t perfection, it’s presence.

DFR Counsellor Leanne Novakowski reminds parents that “kids spell love T-I-M-E.”
Take them out for ice cream, play a game, go for a walk, let them choose the activity. What matters most is showing up.

And remember: kids need love the most when they deserve it the least.

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31107 Peardonville Road
Abbotsford, BC
V2T6T9

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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+16045561116

Website

http://www.doingfamilyright.com/

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