Helping Children to Love Themselves
Our children need to love themselves and they need to learn to extend that love to others. When children love others, they are empathetic. Instead of reacting to others, they learn to respond by reading the emotional states of others.
The Connection Point: How You View Yourself
How you feel about yourself affects all of your other relationships. Some of you may not be used to the idea that you have a distinct relationship with yourself, but you do
Being Aware of Sexualized Relationships
Whether at work or play, we still need to be aware of the potential for any relationship to become sexualized.
Identifying the Burdens of Past Relationships
It is so important for you to be able to identify the burdens from past relationships that may be slowing down your rate of recovery.
A Prayer for Kindness
Too often we teach our children to be kind one to another, and then we forget the admonition as adults. True forgiveness and kindness are cut from the same cloth; it is impossible to demonstrate one without declaring the other.
Getting Stuck in Hurt and Isolation
When you take the risk of opening up to others and begin to share who you are with someone you learn to trust, you are on your way to emotional wholeness.
Is There More to Love Than What You’ve Experienced?
One of the core traits of a dependent personality is difficulty accepting challenging or disturbing truths about self or others out of a need to maintain the status quo.
Growing Through the Storms
Often, it’s only when our eyes have been washed clear with buckets of tears that we will ever get a handle on the larger vision for ourselves and our place in the world.
Why the Key to Relationships Is You
How you feel about yourself affects all of your other relationships. Some of you may not be used to the idea that you have a distinct relationship with yourself, but you do.
Healthy Relationships Mean Becoming Emotionally Healthy Yourself
Healthy people are growing people, and people do not grow healthy in isolation. The following questions can help you recognize if you are creating and maintaining healthy relationships.
Is Work Ruling Your Life?
Society places a great deal of value on not only what you do but also how well you do it. That’s a whole lot of pressure rolled up into a job.