I have spent years processing the recollections of my life growing up in a ‘ toxic Christianized’ environment and the impact on me. Some pretty rough stuff happened. I am a missionary kid, born and raised for the first 14 years of my life in Nigeria. After not bonding well with my parents, I was […]
It was likely in Sept. of 1995. It was the first time I encountered God clearly interacting with a client and myself. It was the best ‘Sunday school story’ I had ever heard! I had been interacting with this lady for many months. (We will call her Tessa for the sake of confidentially.) She came […]
I have had people come to me for help sorting out some distress and then talked in ‘code’, leaving out significant aspects of their distress. They are not wanting to be guilty of slandering another soul. Have you heard sermons regarding gossip and felt convicted? There are a plethora of references that pop up when […]
I have had prescription glasses for years due to stigmatism. A couple years ago while interacting with a neurological ophthalmologist it was discovered that energy and light were traveling inappropriately through my brain circuitry. And thus, I now have the prisms embedded into my glasses. I now have improved eyesight, seeing the world more clearly. […]
The emotional gym consists of: anger, sad, powerless, shame, fear and disgust. For simplicity sake, we will look at individual emotions. One of the side benefits will be an increasing ability to navigate life when experiencing more than one emotion.
God has gifted me richly with mentors who have contributed greatly to my becoming who I am today! I hold them as treasures and in high regard. [Names have been changed] Ben and James who significantly helped get a foundation built within me as I was grappling with the impact of my early childhood and […]
In the past three posts I have looked at 3 different attachment patterns. We began looking at the Secure Attachment, the type of secure bond all of us desire. It is the type of relational ‘environment’ that others can heal, grow and thrive in. The focus then shifted to the survival instincts and patterns that […]
In our last interaction, we focused on the life of “Dismissive Danny”, and the tragic struggle that comes from living a life with minimal awareness of what happens in our lives matters, leaving us to follow rules above the value of relationships. We looked at the importance of ‘coming alive’, and practical ways to move […]
In my last post I gave a snapshot of what it might look like to grow up in an environment filled with security, mindsight, empathy, consistency and constancy. While life has challenges for all of us, those who grow up with such a degree of security are able to navigate life’s challenges with resilience that […]
I recently wrote of a situation in my life, giving responses from different people who have different attachment styles, along with how I was impacted by them. In the following weeks I will look at each Attachment Pattern separately, sharing a possible profile of a person who would have grown up in an environment that […]
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