When there is no trust, people will not be vulnerable with each other. They will not be honest about their own weaknesses— or the others’ strengths. And, they will not exchange ideas...
A lot of people hide from each other... in friendships, at the office, in marriage... we tend to "keep something back," lest we be revealed for... well... something less that what we project that...
Freedom isn’t found in hoping no one finds out about the clutter in your past. Even if your past is fairly present.
No.
Freedom is found when it’s in the open, when there’s...
Many of our hopes and dreams stand in contrast to what’s safe. That's OK when we function from a place of health. But, when we live from a place of unhealth, we can step back rather than...
The Belief-Expectation Flywheel, as I labelled it, describes how our soul works—
- We experience something. It might be positive or negative.
- We form specific belief patterns based...
God gave us the ability to guard our hearts— not so we would hide them forever, but so that we could deal with pain and protect ourselves from harm in healthy ways (see Proverbs 4:23). Of...
I learned this from the “raw talk” during one of our Centers of Hope meetings…
What does it mean to be “triggered” by your emotions?
Here’s our unofficial...
We don’t need to be “afraid” of the “bad” emotions. The truth is that, even if our hearts can lead us astray (such that we don’t to be controlled by them), it is...
I was listening to the radio the other day and heard the mantra in the lyrics of yet another song, “Fear is a liar…”
Then someone posted a meme on Instagram, saying the same...
Pain isn’t the enemy emotionally anymore than it is physically. Most of us do our best to avoid emotional pain. We bury it. We explain it away.
Think about the necessity of physical pain,...
People often have more confidence in the devil's ability to deceive-- and in the innate drive to sin-- than they do in the fact that we're created in the image of God, and we've been resurrected...
As we were going back and forth about the forward for the Claim Your Freedom book, JB and I sat in a pub in downtown Salt Lake City discussing “hard things.” He experienced his version...
