Sublime

We develop an attachment figure resource when the most resourced parts aren’t healthy enough, hold strong resentments toward the child states, or lack the adaptive information needed to metabolize the information in the traumatic memory. The attachment figure resources are a proxy or substitute that models what the most grown-up parts can’t current

Different Voices

feelings with another. Yet for good or ill, Freud used psychoanalysis to attack this private space. The home became no longer a haven but the origin and place where you lost touch with the true self (your id). For Freud, the home was no longer a haven but the location where your true self was lost under the layers of misdirected and confused emotio

To determine what is truly propelling your spiritual gifts, ask yourself, “Who is the primary beneficiary of my actions?” If your actions benefit others, you are serving with love. If you realize you are the prime beneficiary of your actions, you need to immediately realign yourself with God. A love-driven life is the life God uses.

No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality.

We lose ourselves in thoughts about what is wrong, how long it will last, what we should do about it and how the pain reflects our unworthiness.

Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl

In the arena of self-knowledge, psychotherapy may be the single most useful intervention of the last 200 years. It is a tool and, like all tools, it finds its purpose in helping us to overcome an inborn weakness and to extend our capacities beyond those originally gifted to us by nature.

Healing the heart is our Father’s imperative work and our introduction to training. Training? Yes, training, learning to experience being a Beloved Son. In the midst of battle, the enemy counts on a man never experiencing that he is a Beloved Son. Lack of this aspect of training makes for a far easier fight for our enemy and a continued small-story