Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow. Psalm 25:4
Some of us have a lot of unhelpful thoughts swirling in our head about family and planning and the holidays. Thoughts like, “This is such a mess of a situation.” Or. “It is so difficult to figure out the holidays.” Or. “These people are hard to deal with.” Or. "Why can't we all get along, …
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I have learned that we develop ways of being in our childhood based on our personalities and environments. We have subconscious programming because of our upbringing, our nervous system, past trauma, our social conditioning, genetics, so many factors. Every single experience we have informs our brains how to think in order to keep us safe. …
What we believe determines how we behave. Think. Believe. Act. As if it were true and we will become. We must practice believing as if it were true for us until we believe. It is a process! It takes time. We must be willing to keep believing even as the results are slow coming, even …
I’ve been thinking about, and this seems funny to even have to say, but I want to say, “Be kind to yourself. Be a good friend to yourself. Practice self-compassion.” It seems like this should be a no-brainer. Like of course we would be kind to ourselves. But I don’t think we are usually. Like …
We tend to think that if some external thing were different in our lives then we’d be "better." “If only I had that” or “if I was in that situation, I’d be happier,” or “if I could just _________ I would be more successful.” We tend to think if I lived there or had that …
We think that some external thing is going to help us change. We try this therapy, that diet, a different workout, this new fad. We pin our hopes on the next thing being the thing that will help us. Then when it doesn’t help, we feel more defeated than we did before. All the things …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 