On Trust
I know I'm not alone in needing help to trust the Lord. Here you'll find everything I've learned on doing just that, trusting.
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Soul Minimalism as a Pathway out of People-Pleasing
Becoming a soul minimalist is a pathway out of the people-pleasing mindset and helps put us back in connection with ourselves on a soul level
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4 Tips for Passive Decision-Makers
Decision-making is one of the scariest, paralysis inducing undertakings of a people-pleaser. It’s risky to state my own opinion, and it leaves me vulnerable to feeling the judgement, anger, or disappointment of others. If my goal is only to keep people around me happy, decision-making is the ripple in the water that rocks the boat.
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Unraveling the Internal Discord of Perfectionism and People-Pleasing
Perfectionists and People-Pleasers are naturally at odds within themselves. They experience something called cognitive dissonance, which is the phenomenon where a person holds two conflicting beliefs or ideas and feel an internal discord.
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Overcoming Perfectionism: 4 Tools to Rediscover Your Worth
Her normally even emotions begin to simmer underneath her exterior. She knows the work she’s doing is good. She knows being a thoughtful hostess to her guests, to Jesus the Messiah, no less, is certainly a worthy endeavor.
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Follow Where He Leads: Letting God turn our pain into trust
Have you ever run into someone at a store or walking your dog on the running track through your city and left the conversation in awe that God led you to each other in that moment? Well, I had a similar feeling a couple of weeks ago. Leaving our son’s room after putting him down to sleep, I tiptoed down…
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Using Our Prayer Fatigue to Grow Our Faith in God
A few years ago I graduated with my master’s degree, ready to begin my life in the 9 to 5 sector. I was eager to get started and excited by the endless opportunity I saw ahead of me. This is what the last 24 years of education prepared me for, after all. I was excited but not naïve. Many other…
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When Friends Overstep Our Boundaries: Set and enforce boundaries
The Disney movie Moana is one where the music drifts through my mind for days after watching it. After one such episode, I played the music from my phone as I cooked dinner, singing along, as we all do. This particular time, a scene from the movie stuck with me over a few days. I just kept coming back to…