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How To Keep Family Members From Stealing Your Joy

How to Keep Family Members From Stealing Your Joy You’re not responsible for someone else’s behavior. That was an eye opening revelation for me 20 years ago. In the past I would think that I could control someone else feelings and…
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How to Run Your Race and Avoid the Comparison Trap

I have a confession to make: Last Thursday I was on Facebook and I came across a post that was talking about five steps to being a better person. It wasn’t the title that caught my attention, it was the beautiful graphics and professionally…
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3 Things I Learned About Toxic Thinking From My Dogs

3 Things I Learned About Toxic Thinking From My Dogs   Toxic thinking can infect every area of your life. It can contribute to physical ailments, emotional distress, and even damaged relationships.   But dumping toxic…
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6 Signs You Think Too Much

  6 Signs You Think Too Much Do you feel like you have a mind that just won’t shut off? If so, you are not alone—many people who come to me report feeling like they have a broken record playing in their head. God gave…
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How to Break the Power of Words Spoken Over You

How to Break the Power of Words Spoken Over You   There is tremendous power in words. After all, God used words to speak creation into existence.   But before we talk about how to break the power of these words, let’s…
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How to Train Your Brain to Trust God When Things Go Wrong

Last week, my website got hacked. Every piece of material I’ve ever written was deep within those web walls. It was there one day and the next, poof! Gone.Talk about a horrible feeling. It’s worse than having my purse stolen.   My…
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Where Do Toxic Thoughts Come From?

Where Do Toxic Thoughts Come From? Do you feel like your thoughts spiral out of control? Do the same thoughts circle over and over again in your mind? Thoughts come at us on an average of 60,000 per day—most of them that suck the life…
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How to Have Peace Without Being Passive

How do you get peace when your mind feels like a pinball machine? Pinball may be fun to play in an arcade, but it’s no fun when it feels like each thought is like an out of control ball bouncing around in your head. There is a big misconception…
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How to Embrace Your Inner Awesomeness

“Just be yourself,” they say. Great advice, but what if you don’t know who you are? Many people spend a good part of their lives pleasing others and trying to be something they are not. Is that you? It was me for a…
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How to Reinvent Yourself for God's Purpose

This past weekend, I met a man who believed that his past disqualified him from a new beginning in life. He had committed armed robbery on more occasions than he could count and had just been released from a seven-year prison sentence. In…