Self-Respect
The Sin of Self-Omission
Recovering the Image of God Within Us The word sin has suffered a tragic fate. For many people it conjures images of guilt, shame, moral failure, or an angry God keeping score of human behaviour. It has become one of the least useful words in the spiritual vocabulary because it has been reduced to a … Read more
People Pleasing – An Overview
This post: People-pleasing: an overview is an introduction to people-pleaser psychology. People-pleasing arises from a deeply ingrained belief, often formed in childhood, that one is not enough as they are. This belief drives the need to generate added value to justify one’s existence. At its core, people-pleasing stems from the idea that one’s natural self—spontaneous … Read more
Your Guide to Ending People Pleasing
The ultimate guide to ending people pleasing is intended to give you some practice guidance about what people pleasing is and how to end it. If you’ve ever felt stuck in a cycle of putting others’ needs above your own, saying “yes” when you want to say “no,” or constantly seeking approval, you’re not alone. … Read more
Author Your Own Life
Be An Authority by Authoring Your Own Life Are you the author of your own life? Or do you feel like an actor in a play that someone else wrote? Like you’re performing a role for approval, acceptance, or peace? This is a heavy script to carry. Your life becomes a performance in somebody else’s … Read more
What Is Healing?
What is healing anyway? To answer that question, we need to ask another question: What is a human being? Healing is recovering from anything that causes you to feel and act less than human. Which begs the question, what is it to be human? I was listening to a podcast in which the host asked … Read more