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Finding Balance in Unbalanced Relationships: A Discussion about Conflicting Emotions.
Think about relationships that you have with significant people in your life, what is the first word that comes to mind? Is the word a reaction to how you feel about relationship or a descriptor of how interaction occurs? Something … Continue reading
Happiness: Guilt, Criticism, and Projection
Happiness: Guilt, Criticism, and Projection An interesting thing that I have noticed about people who feel guilty is that they are not very happy and that they invest a huge amount of energy trying to hide– cover up painful or guilty … Continue reading
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Emotional Abuse–Invalidation, Scars Left Behind
I have heard it said that the greatest fear that a child has while growing up is the fear of abandonment and rejection—that they will be left alone. Abandonment alone is a subject that there is a plethora of research … Continue reading
Hope as the Pathway and Agency for Success in Any Venture
Hope is What We Express About Life That is a Bridge To The Future The ability to express hope through challenging circumstances is an essential element to create success in the ventures of life. Expressing hope is the act of … Continue reading
Bitterness: Drinking Poison and Wishing Someone Else Dies
What happens to a person when they are exposed to continual invalidation, while feeling the pain of rejection, isolation and then made to believe that what they are feeling is not important enough to be heard? If you have not … Continue reading
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Storms: Choices, Consequences, and Contentment
Connecting Choices to Outcome Do the choices that are made every day have anything to do with how things work out in life? Taking a walk around the neighborhood after a tornado; then taking a drive through the city, what … Continue reading
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Spirituality in a Postmodern Age: The Decline of the West and Spirituality.
Postmodernism: — a state of mind in a particular period of history affecting every area of western culture Postmodernism is a term that has gained popularity in scholarly writing as well as casual conversations. Thomas Guarino (1996) says, “It’s a … Continue reading
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Hidden Within The Family System
Family life that includes interaction with a borderline personality has the potential of creating a domino effect triggering toxic behaviors and relationship problems having the potential to disrupt, shatter or destroy social and family relationships. However, friends and onlookers who … Continue reading
Finding Balance Between Perception and Expectations.
Who’s Glasses Are You Looking Through? Is it really reasonable to believe that you can make other people happy by always doing what’s expected, acquiescing to the wishes of others to live in their blessing? In reality you can never … Continue reading
Finding Balance: Are My Feelings Giving A Correct Assessment of Life?
I was recently talking to someone who’s parent had died and the father remarried within a year. As we spoke, I heard the painful story describing the personal experience of a person who felt that remarriage changed the surviving parent … Continue reading
