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Character Counts
IF IT’S BROKE, TRY TO FIX IT (273.3) by Michael Josephson Former president Jimmy Carter was seventy years old when he wrote this poem about his father: This is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a man’s […]
Relationships, Sex Addiction Love Addiction
Depression, Alcohol–Drug addiction Early Traumas/Inner Child Issues NOTE: Following is an excerpt from what may be the last self help book you ever have to read. It is Chapter 20 from this book, and zeros in on the prime causes of relationship failures. Earlier chapters deal with addictions, depression, and early childhood issues, and how […]
A Drug Problem
In Case You Didn’t Know . . . I Had A Drug Problem I had a “drug” problem when I was a young person and a teenager.I was “drug” to church on Sunday morning. I was “drug” to church on Sunday night. I was “drug” to church on wed.night. I was “drug” to Sunday school […]
In Defense Of The Inner Child
by Laurie A. Weiss, Ph.D and Jonathan B. Weiss, Ph.D It seems characteristic of our society that whenever something gets big enough to be noticed, it comes under attack. Many articles have appeared recently in the popular press condemning the concept of the “Inner Child,” and the idea that life’s problems can be solved by […]
Hippies, Fathers, & War
“Hippies, Fathers, and War” Dear Friends, Late in the summer of 1969, I reached out my thumb hopefully beside a shady two-lane road in the redwood country of Northern California. My VW bug had died months before, and–as was commonly done in that more innocent age–I was hitchhiking home from visiting a friend in San […]
Inner Child Healing Techniques
“The feeling of wanting to die, of not wanting to be here, is the most overwhelming, most familiar feeling in my emotional inner landscape. Until I started doing my inner child healing I believed that who I really was at the deepest, truest part of my being, was that person who wanted to die.” “The […]
Neo-Traditional Born-Again Dads
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-214 (Family Issues) NEO-TRADITIONAL BORN-AGAIN DADS by Terry Mattingly They show up for dinner, help with homework, lead the rituals of bedtime and park their butts in the bleachers when their kids are in action. They are heavy on discipline, but also eager to praise. They have been known to spank their […]
Friendship Quotes
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” —Charles Caleb Colton “A real friend is one […]
A Father’s Blessing
What is one specific way you knew that you received your father’s blessing? Here are some answers to that question asked of one hundred people by Gary Smalley, popular author and psychologist. 1. “My father would put his arm around me at church and let me lay my head on his shoulder.” 2. “When my […]
Cheating
THE HOLE IN THE MORAL OZONE IS GETTING BIGGER According to a report just released by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, the number of high school students who admit they cheated on an exam in the past 12 months jumped from a disturbingly high 61 percent in 1992 to an even worse 74 percent in […]
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