Tag: emotional health
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Dealing with Emotional Pain
“How do you metabolize the pain and difficult passages in your life? Inner peace and maturing in our faith happens when we learn how to be reasonably comfortable with the uncontrollable. Our culture teaches us to run from failure and sorrow instead of teaching us how to embrace and endure the adversity and loss. Entering…
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Stop in the name of love
Do you turn to your go-to-friend of comfort (e.g. shopping, shoes, wine, food, sex, mindless TV, gambling, on-line shopping or drugs)? How are your coping skills when “shift” happens? Are you in a vicious cycle of starting and stopping a project or diet? Are you in a vicious cycle of emotional eating or drinking because…
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Jewel’s book “Thank You Lord I Don’t Look Like What I Have Been Through”
I don’t look like what I have been through. And you don’t have to look like the abuse, dysfunction, grief, stress, sickness, struggle or heartache you have been through.
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How to Get Relief from Emotional Pain
Pain is like a smoke alarm. If you take out the batteries because you don’t like the noise, or you never put in new batteries, your house could burn down. Don’t let your life be destroyed into ashes because you are ignoring the pain you feel in your heart, body, relationships, finances or job situation.…