23. RELATIONSHIPS: How to Experience Happy, Healthy Relationships
It’s amazing how we’ll strategize a stock portfolio, calculate March Madness picks, organize our Fantasy sports teams, optimize a sock drawer, but invest very little research or preparation in relationships. As a result, many of us have jumped in eyes wide shut and gotten hurt very deeply… and we stay hurt for a very long ...
Read More22. SECOND CHANCES: Letting Go is a Decision Away
Giving yourself the grace to let go is critically important to your own emotional well being. After time, all of that resentment, shame, or anger will build up and actually incapacitate you from interacting with others in a healthy fashion. It all starts with forgiving yourself of your own past, your own guilt, addictions, and ...
Read More21. SECOND CHANCES: Are You Ready for a Liberating Experience?
If you don’t embrace the power of a second chance, the freedom of self-forgiveness, you will walk around in a constant state of pain. Oh sure, you may try to cover it up with staying busy, partying, or simply faking your joy. But, in the end, you’ll become an empty shell, walking around in a ...
Read MoreAre Your Too Hard on Yourself?
It’s so very easy to beat yourself up for a junky past. What makes this worse is the fact that you life will continue to recreate more mistakes when you continue to rehearse the old ones. So why not discover a way to stop focusing on the past. When you forgive yourself, you release yourself ...
Read MoreYou Deserve a Second Chance!
It’s a fact of life, every one of us is going to fail at something in our lives. And that’s perfectly alright! The question is, are you going to allow yourself to grow from that mistake or become imprisoned by it? Most of us, unfortunately, are too hard on ourselves. We find ourselves dwelling on ...
Read MoreContentment is Key
If we can learn to be content with the world around us today, we position ourselves to receive what only God can do. Elements like gratitude, thankfulness, and tranquility are incredible seedbeds for supernatural opportunities. This is not being lazy, but being proactively intentional about who you are and the caliber of relationships you wish ...
Read MoreLoving ‘Me’ to Love You
If we’re not taking care of our own emotional health, we’re setting ourselves up for sabotaging opportunities around us. You will always struggle to trust God if you’re in a place of not trusting the relationships around you. At some point, you have to take the initiative to surround yourself in the right environment for ...
Read MoreLetting Go and Living Anxiety Free
Learning to let go takes a lot of intention. Getting yourself to stop controlling the world around you is far easier said than done. Yet, if we become concious of our behaviors, the nagging, manipulating, etc., we begin ceasing these actions with more frequency. Learning to trust God in the theses issues can take time ...
Read MoreDiscovering a Healthy, Quality and Vibrant Life
We are so used to controlling the world around us we don’t even realize we are. In such, we’ve found ourselves exhausted, even bitter, only to take it out on the ones closest to us. This way of life is not only unhealthy, it’s not fun. The more we try to control the world around ...
Read MoreAre You Trying to Hurry the Oak Tree for Acorns?
To coin a phrase from Tom Petty’s song, it’s true, “the waiting is the hardest part”. We all have tried to ‘make something happen’. Instead of allowing a relationship or opportunity to naturally develop, we’ve attempted to rush the process through our own efforts. Somehow, you and I think we can hurry the oak tree ...
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