In my experience, I grew up believing that I needed to be perfect in order to be lovable and accepted by people. Perfectionism ruled my life as I attempted to do more to be enough. Shame -- believing that I did not just make mistakes, but that I was a mistake -- was the taskmaster that drove me. Shame motivated me by all or none and black or white. Shame prodded me with a … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
Living with Limitations and NOT Giving UP on Ourselves
At the end of April 2007 I wrote an article that I would like to speak to in this article. The article, Following your bliss...regardless. In life, events, circumstances and disappointments may redirect our experience. In an instant — like a switch on a railroad — life events can set us in the opposite direction of our hopes and dreams. In the process our hopes, dreams, and … [Read more...]
How Our Anger can Heal Us
Life is a mystery filled with winding roads and sometimes, steep slopes. Each step can appear to be daunting and foreboding. Questions also arise, often too many, even before one can be answered. At times, my path appeared to be leading me into a maze of choices. Although I looked for specific directions, clarity seemed to evade my understanding. At these times, I felt like I … [Read more...]
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Several weeks ago, a friend of mine kindly helped me to move Create a Spark of Hope from createasparkofhope.wordpress.com to createasparkofhope.com. Today, I created a way for you to subscribe to Create a Spark of Hope to receive updates to my articles. This means that by subscribing to Create a Spark of Hope, that as I write and publish articles for Create a Spark of Hope; … [Read more...]
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Several weeks ago, I moved from secondchancetolive.wordpress.com to secondchancetolive.org. In the process, my email subscription may have stopped working for you to receive updates to Second Chance to Live. I have remedied that a little while ago by including a way for you to sign up to receive updates to secondchancetolive.org. At the top of my right side bar on my home page, … [Read more...]
