It is so easy to get trapped in what is familiar, even if that familiar thing is pain. The pain that brought us here is a part of us and we have to live with it but we don't have to live in it. We need to be healing. The first step is to be willing to leave the pain behind.

We do not live a life where we are always at 100%. What do we do when we hit empty?

We've talked about emotionally moving on. You're a new person now. So much of that is unseen though. It can be hard to quantify those things. Let's take a few minutes to talk about how physical stuff we have can damage or hinder our emotional healing.

Time for a Change: Part 2

Bad habits were meant to be broken. Unnecessary survival mechanisms were meant to be broken. Let's look at how we can refocus and break into true life.

Time for a Change: Part 1

The first few episodes were about examining ourselves, identifying our pain, and being able to acknowledge what's truly wrong. We start, now, to talk about external things we can do to start healing as well.

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Starting the Dialogue: Part 5

We've spent the last few episodes talking about doing work internally. It's time we took a look at what we need to do to express ourselves outwardly.

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Starting the Dialogue: Part 4

Healing is a lot of work. Work that can get very discouraging very fast.
We need some help. What are we really working for? Let's let God give us that help and hope.

Starting the Dialogue Part 3

We think about integrity and honesty as how we act towards and around other people. Acting with honesty and integrity towards others is something we generally strive to do, but what about with ourselves? Can we really say we've been honest with ourselves or do we live in a constant state of denial?

Starting the Dialogue: Part 2

It's about time we talked about who we are as individuals, not just by the name on our license or the job that we have, but who we are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually now. Not who we used to be, but who we currently are.

Starting the Dialogue: Part 1

As far as I can tell, every single parent's story has pain in it. Mine certainly does.

Out of respect for that, I want to establish some ground rules that we can all (hopefully) agree on. This is to be a place where our pain can be addressed and brought to God for healing, not a place of judgment.

Let's come together and start the healing process today.

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