Being kind to yourself means noticing the inner critic that tells you “you’re not enough” or “you should try harder” — and choosing rest and grace instead of pushing harder. It’s not self-indulgence; it’s recognizing your human limits and trusting that you don’t have to earn your worth. Rest, understood […]
Mental Health
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We can become so loaded down with religion that our faith makes us unwell, but Jesus can make us well when we reach out for the fringe. They were loaded down. You couldn’t see it, but as you listened, you could hear and feel it. It was a load of […]
It was tasting the dust of devastation. The broken pieces. But those fragments can be brought together, and so we quietly form a new mosaic. When something in your life is shattered — by grief, failure, or disaster — the broken pieces left behind aren’t the end of the story. […]
We are like a cup in which energy both fills and drains. The Cup Exercise is a short spiritual practice — imagine your life as a cup, and simply notice what’s pouring in and what’s being poured out. In under two minutes you get a clear, honest snapshot of where […]
The load we carry can get too heavy, and we can breakdown. But we can grow through it when we have others who will watch with us. I needed help. I vividly remember the day I rang emergency services. I had come to a point where I knew I couldn’t […]
It was the feelings of a guilt trip and the words of being a ‘Brothers Keeper’ that triggered me. But was it genuinely helping me and them to think this way? Something needed to change. Some people seem to be able to push the manipulation guilt trip button every time. […]
Words have power. Self-deprecation is to pray against the self, but we can learn to pray for the self and so develop healthier thinking patterns. It was the words at the end of his sentence that caught my attention. ‘I’m so stupid; I always do things like that’. You […]
Our thoughts can take us to both the best and worst of places, but we can create new thinking pathways. It will require a plan to rope bridge the synapse gap. It was a small rope bridge, and it had only three wires. One wire where you could place your […]
Do you keep making the same bad choices over and over again? You can change, and it all begins with a decision to change the way you think and act. It was New Zealand’s worst airline disaster. On November 28th, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. […]
Quick answer: When stress piles up, it can feel like one unbeatable giant. The Bible story of David and Goliath offers a simple pattern for handling it: name every piece of the problem (the “ands”), identify the strength or resource you already have (the “but”), then take one deliberate action […]