Uprooted: Returning home from college for holiday breaks
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Returning home from college can be challenging. This article lays out 5 steps to help you get the most out of going home for breaks.
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A guide for coping with chronic stress
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Chronic stress impairs, debilitates, and injures us. So what can we do about it? In this article you will find practical areas to address in your life that will allow you to make changes to your external and internal environment, so that you can better manage the impact of chronice stress.
Read MoreProblem Understanding vs. Problem Solving
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Are you focused on problem solving, or problem understanding? The first leads to a quick out, but almost always back to the problem. Understanding takes time, work, guidance, and perseverance, but can lead to real change. This article focuses on the difference.
Read MoreCreate an Emotional Budget
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How is your emotional spending and saving? Do you barely have margins or are you emotionally bankrupt? Read on to think through how you can budget out your emotional energy.
Read MoreWhat you need for Recovery...
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What are the necessary elements for recovery from addiction?
First, you need to know what causes vulnerability to addiction.
This short article will point out the three necessary aspects of recovering from addiction.
Little Movements...
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“What can I change in how I live today?” is a much better question than “What can I change to fix my life?”
Read MoreWhat makes you vulnerable to addiction?
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What makes an addict? Is it genetics or bad decisions or something else? There are three things that research shows creates a vulnerability to addiction.
Read MoreApocalyptic
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Apocalyptic. No, not the kind with Nic Cage at the end of the world. But the kind that reveals the true nature of things. What’s this pandemic revealed about us? About you? About our needs and fears? This short article looks at four characteristics that have been exposed during the pandemic, and how to remedy them.
Read MoreDon’t Intellectualize Away your Intuition
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Do you trust your gut, or do you intellectualize away your intuition? Here’s a short guide to help you develop authenticity and learn to trust your intuition.
Read MoreAm I Acting Entitled?
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How can you tell if you are living with a sense of entitlement? Here’s a short guide to help you reflect on common attitudes and behaviors of an entitled person, as well as a few ideas to help get you out of it.
Read MoreSigns of an Unhelpful Counselor
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What are some signs that you might need to find a new counselor? In this article, Branden discusses 6 signs that your counselor might not be a good fit: boundaries, unqualified, one size fits all, their life is out of control, avoidance, and unbalanced feedback.
Read MoreYou CAN trust your emotions
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Can you trust your emotions? To start, what do you believe emotions even are? And what does it mean to trust them?
In this short article, Branden Henry explains simply the role of emotions in your life, what they are and what they aren’t, and why he thinks you can trust them.
How to Reflect on 2020
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As we wrap up this very strange, painful, and lonely year; it’s good to sit and spend some time in reflection. In this post, I will give you some writing prompts to help get you reflect on this past year.
Fair warning, this reflection is not about achievements and failures, goals and resolutions. This reflection is about finding out where you have been, where you are, and where you want to go.
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Self-Care during Election Stress
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How can you deal with the stress of this election? What’s your plan? This article gives practical advice by looking at the Psalms and research on stress and trauma.
Read MoreYour Role in Race Relations
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How are you navigating the conflict at the heart of our nation? What are you doing with the complex emotions you feel around the deaths of black men and women? Do you feel like your way of life is being threatened?
This blog post is written to help white folks figure out the role they’re playing in race relations. Based on the Karpman Triangle, you’ll be able to understand if you’re playing the victim, offender, or rescuer…and how you can move towards ownership.
A new name for 'pornography'
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Pornography is no longer an apt word to define the sexually explicit images and writing accessible to mainstream ‘porn’ users. So what should we call pornography which has become so personalized while simultaneously removing the person?
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Read MoreTolkien's advice for Social Media
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What would a 20th century fantasy writer have to say about modern social media? A lot. Read on for tips for how to use social media.
Read MoreLeading True
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What happens when you lead from self-ignorance? What if your boss, director, or manager leads without self-awareness?
Read MoreStop Hiding - Start Talking
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What do you do when you’ve burrowed yourself deep under a blanket of lies? How do you get out of living a double life? Read on to find a guide and some hope.
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