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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
Forgiveness Consequences and Usama bin Laden in Perspective
What should a response be to someone who does you wrong, violates your trust, and continually acts in ways that cost more than you can pay emotionally, physically, and financially? Assessing blame and taking responsibility for unjust or unethical behavior … Continue reading
Easter: Spiritual Life and Invalidation at the Cross
All around the world Christians are remembering the darkest day of history when sinful men crucified a sinless savior on the cross. The attitude characterized in the conversation of the crowd gathered around the cross portrays the emotional abuse heaped … Continue reading
Spirituality and Knowledge: Culture Shifting Emphasis from Content to Skill Development
Knowledge Dissemination in the 21st Century In USA Today (March 5, 2009) Greg Toppo’s article, “What to learn: ‘core knowledge’ or ’21st-century skills’?” describes a changing emphasis in how knowledge is ranked on a gradient of importance in contemporary American … Continue reading
Filed under Attitude, Developing, Index, Influence, Leadership, Perception, Postmodernism, Sociology
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
Finding a Balance in Second Marriages and Family Relationships
What is the lived-experience of individuals who experience the loss of a spouse and then decides to remarry? Until you have had the experience of having to reconstruct life from the ashes of what has been, you may not know … Continue reading
Finding Hope in the Holidays
In the season of Christmas, one of the themes that are common and heard is focused on hope. In the last few years it seems that with job losses, foreclosures, and the general direction of decline that has been developing … Continue reading
Filed under Developing, Holidays, Motivation, Spiritual Development
Looking Through an Abused Child’s Eyes
Intelligent people, through their ability to analyze, often realize things which are disconcerting, which others would not see. They also are often capable of feeling more deeply, both pain and joy. This list is from the work of Janet Geringer … Continue reading
Filed under Abuse, Index, Mental Health Issues, Relationships, Self Defeating Behavior
