Several years ago I began to learn something new about the subject of narcissism from Dr. Jim Wilder of Life Model Works. He informed me that most of us did not know what to do with the emotion of shame. I highly agreed, saw quickly that I was included there, and wanted to know more. […]
Solutions for Trauma (from joystartshere.com)
This is an excerpt taken directly from the JOY STARTS HERE project from Life Model Works dealing with solutions for trauma. I wanted to share it because it makes such great sense that the solutions to painful traumas should match the way traumas work. Check this out and see if it might be something you would like […]
TRIGGERS:Calming Your Brain When Upset-Part Two
In Part One we looked at how to go to an appreciation memory in order to help us get our relational circuits (RC’s) back on and be able to relate better with God and others. In this part I want to talk about a part of the brain that Dr. Karl Lehman has named the […]
Truth Does Not Take Away Pain–Part One
Do you ever wonder why sometimes after a painful event, you just cannot get your feet back on the ground—even if you know God’s truth about the situation? And then other times someone can say a word of truth and you pop right back up? There is a reason and it has to do with […]
How Evil Uses Pain
In a previous blog, Pain Means Comfort is on the Way, we looked at one aspect of emotional pain. Today I want to look at pain from another angle that I learned from Dr. Wilder. As I talk to people about their emotional pain, they seem to fall into a couple of categories: those who […]