Sublime

Traumatized human beings recover in the context of relationships: with families, loved ones, AA meetings, veterans’ organizations, religious communities, or professional therapists.

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

It takes real trust in God to enter into chaos and create peace.

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.

In order to maximize the mutual knowledge of the shepherd-sheep relationship it is essential that the members of the church be delegated among the elders of the church in order that each elder will know which sheep he is responsible for and the sheep will know the identity of their shepherd.

What are the ‘givens’ which keep me in this situation? Is this stressful person who I call a friend really a friend? Can I reduce the stress which this place causes

In 1998, Dr. Martin Seligman, incoming president of the American Psychological Association (APA), had challenged the field of psychology to broaden its focus to study and implement interventions that went beyond human problems and pathology to include the study of human strengths and well-being—basically, what’s going right.2 He thus initiated posi