Giving and receiving unconditional love is the most effective and powerful way to personal wholeness and happiness.

This process is a reversal of the order of nature. Now the child is taking care of the parents’ needs, rather than the parents taking care of the child’s needs. This caregiver role is strangely paradoxical. In an attempt to secure parental love and avoid being abandoned, the child is in fact being abandoned. Since the child is there for the parent,

My general working definition of compulsive/addictive behavior is “a pathological relationship to any mood-altering experience that has life-damaging consequences.”

Although I was spiritually bankrupt when I married, the good news is you can recover, uncover and discover your true self and your personal power.

The Bible suggests that the origin of human bondage (original sin) is the desire to be other than who we are .

Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).

The nine affects are excitement, pleasure, startle, distress (sadness), fear and anger, shame, dissmell and disgust.

The mystery of evil has not been dismissed by the demythologizing of the Devil. Rather, it has been intensified in the twentieth century by two world wars, Nazism, Stalinism, the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and the heinous and ruthless extermination of Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhism by Pol Pot. These reigns of evil form what has

shame was an innate feeling that could be internalized as a destructive identity.