Tag: Thought-Life

• June 2, 2010

  Getting Others’ Approval to Get Your Own

  Guilt is one of the most familiar feelings in the human emotional vocabulary — and one of the most misunderstood. Most people treat guilt as either a signal to be…

• June 1, 2010

  What It Actually Means

  “This too shall pass” is one of the most quoted phrases in spiritual recovery — and one of the most misapplied. It is often used as a form of emotional…

• May 29, 2010

  The Attraction to Emotional Trauma

  What is your devastating weakness? Not in the abstract, not philosophically — what is yours, specifically, in the way your inner life actually works? Most people have never answered that…

• May 29, 2010

  The Ego’s Preference for Drama

  Negative thoughts do not return because you are weak or spiritually deficient. They return because of a pattern — a groove in the mind that was cut long before you…

• May 24, 2010

  Anchor to a Value System, Not a List of Rules

  Most people approach “setting boundaries” as a social skill — something you learn to say to difficult people in order to protect yourself. But that framing misses the deeper truth:…