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Overcoming Codependency: Finding Peace in Being Alone

If you can’t be alone without spiraling into anxiety, distraction, or unhealthy coping, that’s not just loneliness. It’s codependency. And the holidays have a way of exposing it. The good news is that codependency can be broken, peace in solitude…

The Hidden Truth Behind Manhood: Finding Freedom From Our Hiddenness - truth behind manhood

The Hidden Truth Behind Manhood: Finding Freedom From Our Hiddenness

I have discovered that universally, as humans, our greatest desire is to feel seen and heard, or ultimately, “known”. When a part of us is lost in hiddenness, then we can never be fully known, and without being known, we can’t feel fully loved. It’s when we bravely step out of the darkness where we’ve been trapped by self-judgment that we pave a way for love to get in and defeat the lies that keep us feeling separated from God, life, family and friends.

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Virginity Isn’t Purity: Why the Church Got It Wrong

Virginity is not the same as purity. You can be a virgin and have a completely impure heart. You can have lost your virginity and be walking in deep, genuine purity before God. When the church reduces purity to a…

7 Signs of an Unhealthy Soul Tie - relationships

7 Signs of an Unhealthy Soul Tie

Sex is a tridimensional experience: spirit, soul, and body. Anytime you have sex with a person you bond with them. Two people may decide to have sex ‘just for the fun of it,’ yet something is occurring on another level that they might not have decided on at all: sex is enhancing an emotional bond between them whether they want it or not. This is what we call soul ties.

Stop Caring About What People Think About You - relationships

Stop Caring About What People Think About You

I met a young woman who was in search of significance.

Everyday she would live her life longing for acceptance from the people around her.  If she got it, she was determined to keep it, and would wake up the next morning and try to emulate everything she did the day before in hopes that she would get it once again.