Are you manifesting symptoms of emotional pain that you haven’t recognized in your heart? Are you aware of pain in your life, but just don’t know what to do about it? As we continue to talk about shepherding the life of your heart, we have to pass through the important subject of emotional pain. We […]
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Three Things to Do With Your Emotional Pain
The greatest fruit in your life will often come out of how you respond to pain that you experience. Unfortunately, most spend their lives running from pain, rather than leaning into it and discovering the learning and growing available in it. Too often, pain is not addressed until it has become excruciating or the issue […]
6 Reasons Why We Avoid Emotional Pain
You may already start by avoiding this article, who knows. But today, it seems there is a race to avoid pain like never before. People’s lives are busier, packed with constant activity. We crowd our lives with achievement, driven behaviors or simply immersing ourselves in distractions to avoid anything that makes us feel emotional pain. […]
Two Dysfunctional Responses to Pain
The question is not, “Will you face pain” because everyone to some degree will face pain in their life–wounds from broken relationships, disappointments and heartache will pierce us and come our way. The question is more, “What will you do with the pain?” Everyone has to answer this question and make a decision for how we […]