Conversations With Cinthia

Last episode, Cinthia discussed determining our value by starting with our Creator and the value He established in us, rather than with our own history, performance, feelings, or contributions. Today, she discusses what this means for our relationships. What happens when we relate to other people based on the value God created in us and in others? What does this mean for how we treat others and how we expect them to treat us? What does it mean for how we respond when someone does not treat us appropriately?

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We expend massive amounts of money, time, and effort trying to grasp our own identities, searching desperately to figure out who we are.  We long to understand why we are the way we are, and we often try to change ourselves, hoping to increase our own value.  Today Cinthia points out that created beings cannot be understood without first considering the creator.  This means that, if you want to understand yourself, you can’t start with yourself.  To know who we are and what we are worth, we have to start with Who God is and what He does for us, not what we do for Him, ourselves, or anyone else.  This also means that He has authority over the paths we take with our lives, authority we often resist.   Do you tend to question your own value?  Resist God’s plan for you?  Join Cinthia to consider how acknowledging your status as a created being could alter your approach to issues like self-worth and the search for life purpose.To dive deeper into the message of each podcast, we've created a study guide for each episode. Download your FREE Study Guide here!
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Sometimes we fight to preserve what we think we need, only to find we are preserving what chokes the life out of us.  What in your life do you try to protect, even when God seems to be nudging you to let it go?  What are you afraid of losing, and what are you losing because you won't let go?  It might be a bad thing, or it might be something that seems so good, so right, so appropriate, except that God is saying, "Trust Me; I have something better for you."  If you are familiar with Cinthia's book God Wants You Truly Living, Not Walking Dead, you know that she has wonderful insights on this topic.  Today she presents it from a fresh perspective.  Join her to consider what needs to die in order for you to truly live.

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Today’s episode begins with why self-care is important and then branches into the territory of ritual.  What are your self-care rituals, positive or negative?  How do your daily rituals reflect and reinforce your values?  Our rituals take our habits to another level, and they can help us or hurt us, as well as others.  What rituals will you add, subtract, or continue, and how will it impact your ability to be who you were created to be?

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You were uniquely created for a specific purpose.  You can (and do, for good or for ill) make a difference in yourself and the world around you.  To fulfill this purpose and effect this change well, you are going to have to figure out how to deal with pain; pain is going to be part of your experience on earth.  Do these concepts sound simple?  Profound?  Too easy?  Too hard?  Helping people understand and apply them has been foundational to Cinthia's work for three decades, but they continue to be fresh and to find new applications.  Join her today for a new take on the classic teachings that have helped so many clients, listeners, and readers move toward being the best versions of themselves.

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As if we weren't excited enough to interview Josh McDowell last week, this week Cinthia talks with Ben Bennett about Free to Thrive, the book he and Josh McDowell are releasing.  Having faced his own trauma and struggles with addiction, Mr. Bennett is now the director of Resolution Movement, helping others discover tools for addressing their own struggles.  Today he and Cinthia discuss the importance of recognizing and meeting emotional needs, reducing the status of asking for help with mental/emotional issues, and understanding how unmet emotional needs and unresolved emotional trauma can feed behaviors we want to resist but keep doing.

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Are your behaviors trying to tell you something about the hurts you haven’t fully addressed?  Have you been repeatedly disillusioned by the sins of others, especially those of Christian ministry leaders?  In their recently-released book Free to Thrive, Josh McDowell and Ben Bennett discuss the way our hurts, when not healed, tend to shape our behaviors, as well as our responsibility to find freedom and healing by addressing those hurts.  Today, Cinthia is again honored to interview Josh McDowell, who discusses his own realization at the height of his ministry that “something is wrong in Camelot.”  Mr. McDowell uses some of his own patterns and changes as examples of the way that re-learning who we are in Christ can change our ways of functioning in the world.  

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Sometimes we dismiss self-care as unnecessary, inconvenient, selfish, or undeserved.  But if God chose to make you, He must have wanted one of you around.  In fact, one is exactly how many He made-- one YOU.  And, while He may not want you to confuse self-care with self-indulgence, He does want you to take care of the unique work of art He created.  Today Cinthia emphasizes that, when you don't take care of yourself, the rest of us lose access to what God designed you to give us.  Join Cinthia to look at why self-care is anything but selfish and what it means to preserve and maintain your ability to be what God made you to be.  After all, He wanted us to have you, and He didn't give us a back-up.

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Sometimes we think of dependence on others as inherently unhealthy, but, in fact, we are meant to need each other.  To be human, says Cinthia, is to be in relationship with other people, and to be in relationship with other people, she continues, is to be dependent.  Not all dependencies, however, are created equal.  Do you tend toward codependency?  Counter-dependency?  Independence and interdependence?  Join Cinthia to consider how you can healthily depend on others and allow them to do the same with you.

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