Love around to me

I realized as I was reflecting on my own disillusionment with dating and plutonic relationships that I always felt safer in one that was non-committal and never trusted consistency in another, but both were lies that told me to keep searching for the perfect "one". It wasn’t until I heard a message that explained one …

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Parenting patterns will play out

Where do we think patterns that play out in society come from? The home. Yup, I just said that. To the degree of illogical treatment toward each other in the family of origin is the degree in which it repeats itself in the world we create outside of it. Heal your childhood and you will …

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Lack of Nature, Will Nurture

Therapy Letters http://www.angeladandrews.com How you love, is learned. In proverbs 22:6 it says, “to train up a child in the way he should go”, but what if you were trained wrong? Nature vs. Nurture applies to the lack of nurturing. Its absence will shade how you survive based on what you took in through your senses …

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Dating a man with Mommy issues.

I always circle back to dating topics because love makes the world go round, unless of course a guy has mommy issues.  This is where you put your big girl pants on and use the data given in the beginning stages to not invest in a relationship where you have to dumb yourself down for …

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Spiritual evidence of Overcoming trauma

My blurb next to my senior picture was a glimpse into how I viewed my place in the world.  I had already been kicked out of my fathers house and told by my mother that she didn't know what to do with me, so I crashed at grandmas often.  I was unwanted to the core …

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Tribal tenderness twisted terminology

God can’t produce a bad situation in hopes of twisting our arm to look toward Him for relief. I have sincere compassion for the gay community but don’t condone it, however I never use Jesus as an argument either. I have worked with numerous teens who struggle with gender identity issues and have witnessed them …

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Trouble with the Curve

This two and a half movie clip is about the questions many of us ask when we are abandoned, rejected, misunderstood or confused because of another person's response to us.  Particularly, when adult children address their parents about an issue they grew up questioning, the response is much like what we see in Clint Eastwood's …

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