Avoiding or Denying Feelings Is Like Using an Emotional Credit Card

Avoiding or denying feelings is like using an emotional credit card
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A friend of mine went to a Dave Ramsey Financial Seminar. Ramsey made the statement that letting go of money is going to hurt, period. We have the choice of experiencing the immediate hurt by using a cash system which means we feel the pain as soon as the money leaves our hands or we can choose to p
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Ash Wednesday
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This is it…very journey starts with the first step, and so today is the first day of my cleanse. I’m pretty excited. I know that’s weird to say but I’ve thinking about this for a few days and I’ve been praying for God to prepare me – so I’m ready. In many of my blog posts I’ve talked about a key p
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Week wherever we are: Mutually Assured Destruction
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I’ve confirmed what I guess I knew all along — my professor is just as embarrassed to be in 105 as I am. On the ground floor of Greenlaw before class, he ran into two women, ostensibly professors like himself. Friendly as always, he asked them about how their classes were going. “Good,” one of them
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There is a Solution to Domestic Violence by Marilyn Redmond
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On Thanksgiving in 1984, I was so distraught that I took my cache of Valium prescribed by my psychiatrist at the time and left with no thoughts of returning home. Living in domestic violence with its abuse and growing up in domestic violence that continued the cruelty made my life hell. When I attem
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