The Spiritual Foundations of Mental Health

A championship season and life is filled with failures, and is still a championship life.

Are we resisting or making peace with the inferiority - that will make all the difference.

It is impossible to go through the journey of life without experiencing potentially overwhelming feelings.  And it is impossible to navigate, grow from, and not be undone by those feelings without sensing there's someone with us in those feelings.  The alternative is trauma.

We don't need constant good feelings to know that life is safe, healthy, and a wonderful place to learn and grow.

Every person is deserving and in need of compassion and empathy, an appreciation that their burden is burdensome.  And every person is deserving and in need of the liberating clarity that there's no one to blame - there's only a Single Simple Source who desires our good.

Our disagreements are a wonderful diagnostic - how clear are we about single simple truth behind our psychological experience?  And what would we like to do with that?

Change is possible!  It's helpful to review how it does and does not work.

Does it suggest my prior growth was an illusion?  Must I understand what changed that I was ok with the habit and now struggle again?  No and no, and here's why.

When feelings have an unbounded role in helping us determine reality, we can innocently and unknowingly forfeit so much freedom to be and do in our lives.

We sometimes associate our feelings of shame with our deficits and imperfections.  In fact, we do possess deficits and imperfections, and they are the badge of our humanity and evidence that we have been tasked by the Creator with a unique and important mission.