Conversations With Cinthia

Recently, we started talking about healthy competition, but there is so much more to say about it!  Competition can be fun and may challenge us to strive for excellence, but it can also become a dumping ground for perfectionism, selfishness, relational aggression, arrogance, inferiority, and a general lack of contentment and fulfillment.  Today Cinthia reviews some of the concepts she introduced last week and then moves into challenging our mindsets at a deeper level so we can compete in a healthy way and celebrate success – both our own and that of others! To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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You know that feeling that happens when you arrive home and get ready to go inside?  It can be a wonderful feeling, a terrible one, or lots of things in between the two, depending on what it is like for you to live there.  You also live inside yourself, inside your own body and head.  When your distractions subside and you become more aware of your own internal environment, how do you feel about living inside of you?  Today Cinthia discusses ways you can change your own internal environment, making the inside of your own head a place you don’t have to avoid. To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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Competition is everywhere, from the football field to the freeway, from the playground to that phone call with family last week.  When does friendly competition become threatening?  Why do some people treat everything as a competition?  And how can we compete appropriately without losing our joy to our own inner comparisons with others?  Join Cinthia to discuss competing in order to improve ourselves, rather than to destroy others or fulfill an inner longing that winning cannot touch.  To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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Whether we deny it, dwell on it daily, or turn backflips to avoid thinking about it, the past can haunt us.  What would it be like to face your past and make some decisions that help you move forward?  To do what needs to be done so you are no longer defined by it?  Today Cinthia discusses what it means to face your past in a healthy way and deal with it so it no longer deals with you.  To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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Is there a legitimate need for vice in life?  Life is hard, and it is easy to turn to vice to numb the pain.  We may view our vices as anesthesia for our hurts and crutches for helping us get through life.  Unlike crutches and anesthesia, however, our vices tend to move us slowly away from life and health rather than helping us do what is necessary to embrace those things.   Today Cinthia explores what makes a vice, what function it serves, what it costs, and what other options exist for dealing with the pain of life. To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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How do you think about your future?  What do you dream, plan, or casually toss around in your brain?  Whether we chart it all out mentally or simply put things off until tomorrow, we all give mental space to the time ahead of us.  Today Cinthia explains that the way we think about ourselves and our future, as well as the way we interact with God about our future plans and the plans He has for us, make a huge difference.  How will you think differently about tomorrow, today?  To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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Anger is an emotion that is not good or bad, in and of itself, but it can be powerfully used for good or for ill.  It can energize and inspire, hurt and harm, move us toward connection or annihilate our relationships, push us to fight for justice or inflate us to believe we are superior to others.  Do you manage your anger, or does it manage you?  Are you aware of your anger, and do you know how to calm yourself and express anger simultaneously?  Join Cinthia to look at how to use this super-power emotion for good.  To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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Most of us know the signs of physical adulthood, but we often struggle to identify, define, or deal with issues of emotional maturity in ourselves and others, despite the fact that these issues impact much of our lives and the lives of those around us.  Today Cinthia discusses characteristics of emotional maturity and immaturity and offers guidance for helping ourselves to mature in these less-obvious but oh-so-important areas, as well as dealing with people in our lives who currently lack emotional maturity despite living in adult bodies.  To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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How have you experienced the holidays this year?  It would be nice if we could all feel bathed in the joy and peace of Christmas and then greet a new year with excitement and fresh energy… but sometimes the holidays make us keenly aware of our loneliness and the ways we feel disconnected from others.  Some of the factors involved in this are beyond our control, but there are some pieces we can address.  For example, did you know that one of the greatest sources of loneliness and disconnection from others can be a sense of disconnection with ourselves -- a lack of self-knowledge, or even a rejection of who we are and how we are made?  And, while we may be stuck with some non-returnable Christmas gifts, we don’t have to keep our self-rejection, self-alienation, and discontentment about who we are and how we were made.  Join Cinthia to consider how changing your relationship with yourself just might impact your relationship with the world around you and help that loneliness begin to lift.  To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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Now that the presents of Christmas 2022 have been bought/made, wrapped, and opened, what gift do you still want to give?  What kind of gift do you want to be?  You were made by God on purpose because He wanted to make you, and He intended you to be a gift to the world unlike any of the others He made.  So New Year’s (which is coming up, by the way) doesn’t have to be about making a bunch of self-focused, perfectionistic resolutions to become what you think you should be.  It can be more.  Join Cinthia to consider the specific kind of gift you get to be to the world this year and what it might take to become that gift.  To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!  https://www.cinthiahiett.com/services-6

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