Sea Glass Counseling and Consultation

11/24/2025

11/21/2025

Want to learn about balancing the and ? Listen to this week’s episode of *xPodcast featuring Erin Pritchard, MA, LPCC-S. *xpert

11/20/2025

Ever feel like you’re the only one keeping track of everything at home? The grocery list, the bills, the school events… and don’t even get me started on planning date night. 😩

You’re not imagining it — that’s called mental load and emotional labor. And yes, it does affect your intimacy.

In this week’s episode of Go Have Good S*x, I sit down with Erin Pritchard (Sea Glass Counseling and Consultation) to talk about the Fair Play method — a system that helps couples:
✨ Share responsibility without resentment
✨ Reclaim time for connection
✨ Build intimacy before you even get to the bedroom

Spoiler: When the load is shared, s*x gets way better.

🎧 Tune in and learn how to make your marriage a partnership that honors God, honors each other… and keeps the spark alive.

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11/20/2025

09/15/2025

Did you know that Ephesians 5 doesn't actually contain any commands to women in the Greek?

In Greek, there's a certain "tense" of verb that is a command--it's called the imperative. And there isn't a single word to women from verses 22-35 that is in the imperative tense. But there certainly are for men!

Yet in English, especially in Bibles that put a section heading before verse 22 (which actually makes no grammatical sense in the Greek, since verse 22 is connected grammatically with verse 21), the section begins and ends with commands to women.

The impression you get in English is that this section is FULL of commands to women.

But it's not. It's really full of commands to men, because women WERE ALREADY DOING all the submitting. Paul is sort of saying, "okay, women, keep doing what you're doing, but MEN--here's what you've got to do." Because in those days, women already did submit. They had no choice. It was men that Paul had to really address.

I am not saying that women don't need to submit; but I am saying that what Paul was really addressing in order to get marriage to look like Christ was having MEN change their behaviour.

I talked with Professor Cynthia Westfall about verse 33, which talks about husbands loving and women respecting. And even that isn't a command--it's a subjunctive with a "hina" clause, which makes it conditional, more like this: "Husbands, love your wives, in order that wives respect their husbands."

There's so much we miss in Ephesians 5 because we don't understand the Roman context. But we also miss a lot when we don't realize what the Greek was really saying.

This is not a passage that is primarily about women submitting. It is a passage about men ALSO submitting and loving and serving. And I wish we understood that better.

09/09/2025

Being married to a normal person with regular human issues doesn’t drive you to the edge of sanity.

It doesn’t cause health issues, trauma, or loss of your personhood.

“Regular hard” is not the same as being tied to someone who is chronically irresponsible and unwilling to grow.

"Heat" isn't living in a time-warp where the very relationship meant to bring mutual comfort and joy is instead the source of all.the.hard.things and disappointment.

We can also look at it this way too;

If one person is carrying the weight of a relationship most of the time, then yeah that marriage is beyond normal hard and someone brought hardhearted “heat” into a partnership where it never belonged.

In healthy, growth-oriented relationships, neither spouse has to burn out or continually sacrifice themselves just to make a relationship work.

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~ Ngina Otiende

07/28/2025

Your past is what makes you into the person you are today. Without it, who would you be? Where would you be? What if you're experiencing things in your adult life that you're starting to question if it was caused during your childhood? Attachment trauma is real, and it's not something that only children or young adults will face. Unprocessed trauma can start to creep into your daily life, routine, work, and relationships.

➡️ https://www.seaglassohio.com/blog/signs-of-attachment-trauma-in-adults

Your past is what makes you into the person you are today. Without it, who would you be? Where would you be?

06/24/2025

It’s important to know that you can heal and move forward, even without someone else’s acknowledgement or apology regarding their behavior towards you.

➡️ https://www.seaglassohio.com/blog/coping-with-abusers-lack-of-responsibility

Dealing with the aftermath of abuse is already an incredibly difficult and emotional journey. However, it becomes even more challenging when the abuser refuses to take responsibility for their actions and acknowledge the harm they’ve done- truly adding insult to injury. It’s important to know th...

06/17/2025

➡️ https://www.seaglassohio.com/blog/trauma-healing-myths

These well-intentioned clichés may sound comforting at first glance, but they oversimplify the complex process of healing and can invalidate the experiences of individuals struggling with trauma and PTSD.

06/15/2025

Happy Father's Day from Sea Glass!

06/11/2025

🎉 Sea Glass turned 5️⃣ this week!!

❤️ Reflecting on the last five years is such a whirlwind for me. I'm beyond thankful to do work that I love in this capacity. From the bottom of my heart, a sincere thank you to all who've been part of this professional journey so far: clients, colleagues, friends, family, mentors.

🎉 Cheers to another year!

06/10/2025

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a complex condition that can manifest in various ways. While many people associate PTSD with flashbacks, hypervigilence, and nightmares (and those can certainly be part of it), there are several unexpected symptoms that often go unrecognized. Let’s take a look at a few other lesser-known trauma and PTSD symptoms.

➡️ https://www.seaglassohio.com/blog/unexpected-ptsd-symptoms

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a complex condition that can manifest in various ways. While many people associate PTSD with flashbacks and nightmares, there are several unexpected symptoms that often go unrecognized.