Cultivating a strong connection with God takes intentionality. Looking at past patterns of bonding and connection can help us understand how we’ve learned to connect with God. Bonding with God can feel especially challenging if our attachment to our primary caregiver was insecure. Even more challenging if there was neglect or abuse. Many of the ways we’ve learned to connect with God are a result of the ways we grew up relating to our caregivers.
Read MoreWe look at infants, and pre-pubescent teens and acknowledge the amount of change that is occuring in their bodies, but what about adults? The five chemical brainwashes are five stages our brains and bodies go through which initiate some of the biggest shifts in perspective that we experience. Surprisingly, this doesn’t just happen to us as children and adolescence, but also in three-special windows of our adult life.
Read MoreWe see the word, “celebration” and think of large milestones. Birthdays, holidays, graduations, and anniversaries. We send out invitations, eat together and plan events to recognize and rest from routine. But what if celebration was vital to apply in the small moments as well? By definition, to celebrate means to acknowledge a significant or happy day or event.
Read MoreRegret can be the gas to get you moving in a different direction, or it can become a weight of blame and shame. For most of my life regret ended up falling into the "control" part of my operating system and it caused me to carry around shame over my decisions and ultimately over WHO I was.
Read MoreAs I sat there wrestling with defeat and feeling powerless, I heard that still small voice say, “It’s time to cut ties with “I don’t know”. Instantly, like the downloading of many files in a flash, I was reminded of time after time that I had used this phrase, I used it both internally to myself and out loud toward others.
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