The most challenging relationship in our mental health healing journey is with ourselves. While many of us can talk about our struggle in relating and connecting to God in fruitful ways, while also struggling in relationship to others, the biggest trouble most people have is in how they relate to themselves. Most people do not […]
Tag: Loving Yourself
Discerning the Traps of the Inner Critic
The inner critic seeks to block and create resistance to the work of love and grace in your life. It is the voice in our thoughts that constantly judges our thoughts, behaviors, decisions, and emotions. Learning to recognize and discern the inner critic can be a powerful tool in helping us to become more self-aware […]
8 Ways You Become an Enemy to Yourself
Are You at War with Yourself? Many are noticing that within their struggle to heal and overcome, they have become an enemy to themselves. The brokenness of our hearts has driven us into living with a lie that being an enemy to yourself is the way to live. Too many are in a war called […]
How Do You Relate to Yourself in Your Struggles?
Today I want to address a number of questions that have a common theme: how we relate ourselves in the midst of our brokenness, struggles and pain. If you are wanting to grow in your heart healing journey, what I share here the major importance of relating to yourself with greater kindness, patience and compassion. […]
Healing the Inner Critic
What is the inner critic and where does this come from? Do you find that when you try to walk into healing and freedom, you experience resistance and thought patterns that keep accusing you, pointing out flaws and disconnecting you from experience the power of love and grace? This internal wrestling is often called the […]
Love Heals Irritability
Are you irritable? Are you constantly struggling with chronic irritability? I pray today’s insight will be a blessing to your healing and freedom journey, as my goal will be to help you get to the heart of irritability and give you new perspectives on what you may be struggling with. Today’s insights are inspired by […]
Love is Not Narcissism
Learning what love is, what it looks like and how it impacts our lives will inevitably lead us to confronting the toxicity and destruction of narcissism. Many are asking about narcissism and how it fits into the picture of discerning, healing and working through brokenness in our lives. Some would say we live in a […]
What is Love? (Part 4)
The love of God Love has the ability to shift how we see people and how we view situations. His love then leads us to act in a way that demonstrates that powerful perspective. In Part 4 of What is Love? I want to dive into what it means for love to take actiona and […]
What is Love? (Part 2)
In Part 2 of “What is Love?” I want to share two more facets that are incredibly important when learning to navigate the depth and power of God’s love. As though looking at a multifaceted damond, discovering the power of love will enhance and mature your relationship with God, how you see yourself and how […]
What is Love? (Part 1)
I want to address a simple, yet incredibly important question for each of us to discover in our healing and freedom journey. “What is love?” This question seems so simple, yet it is a subject that we can so easily gloss over. Meanwhile, every soul on the planet has a need to experience love. But […]