Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.
So many of us have believed that we need to labor and perform for God so that we can gain an identity, so that we might be accepted. But in the Kingdom, we start off accepted.
The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it.
Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way, fo...
No matter how I want things to stay the same, no matter how discomforting change can be, I am stuck with the certainty that all molecules vibrate; all things are in constant motion; and change will ha...
You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subseq...
The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance.
...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.
When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.
Accept the fullness in life's balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity.
Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others, always assuming they are second best, not...