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Why Are Bad Habits Hard to Break?

Why Are Bad Habits Hard to Break?

Why Are Habits Hard to Break? Many times, it takes a crisis to change our negative habits. We tend to reject the law that protects us. This is the law of sin and death. Our human flesh causes us to sin and not trust the God that wants to protect us from ourselves. The...

The Definition of Trust

The Definition of Trust

We learn most of our words from our family & culture but these definitions may be biased. Read more to find the true definition of trust!

How to Prevent Bad Habits From Taking Over

How to Prevent Bad Habits From Taking Over

Do you tell yourself lies about who you are or who God has made you? Do you have self-destructive thoughts which put you down or have nothing to do with who you really are? Why Do We Tell Ourselves Lies? We want to explore this in our blog today and in a more...

Five Steps to Regain Trust

Five Steps to Regain Trust

Welcome to Walking Our Talk with Alan Heller. I’m Dustin Daniels. Last week, Alan, Pauly and Ed discussed: How vows, judgements and generalizations can cripple you in learning how to trust. How to move from the question “why me” to “what’s next” Started the five steps...

Learning How to Trust

Learning How to Trust

In our Learning How to Trust Book, we talk about the need for trust and how to get it back once it has been broken. Many times in life, we are hurt by a person or something happens that causes us to feel threatened, rejected or shamed. In these cases, our trust is...

A Reminder of the True Meaning of Christmas

A Reminder of the True Meaning of Christmas

Have you ever been in a car accident and experienced everything in slow motion? So many thoughts and emotions flood your mind simultaneously that you cannot process it all in the moment. Time seems to stand still. I think Mary must have responded this way when an...

Do You Have Idols in Your Life?

Do You Have Idols in Your Life?

What are Idols? Websters Dictionary says an idol is: “an object of extreme devotion; a representation or symbol of an object of worship broadly: a false god”. Do we control Idolatry or does it control us? We all want to be significant and liked by others. When we are...

Why is Forgiveness Important?

Why is Forgiveness Important?

Forgiveness and Release Do you have something or someone in your past that you have been unable to forgive? Have you said at one point in your life, “I will never be like… or I am never going to let someone in my life like that again.” As we talked about in the trust...

How to Cope with Holiday Stress

How to Cope with Holiday Stress

How can you spend time with relatives and not be let down? It’s inevitable that gathering groups of different people in the same room will cause some sort of stress, if not utter chaos. Differences in family or personal values, politics, and even sports teams can turn a beautiful family reunion upside-down in a hurry.

Judgments, Vows, and Generalizations, Oh My!

Judgments, Vows, and Generalizations, Oh My!

“Watch your thoughts, they become words ... watch your words, they become actions ... watch your actions, they become habits ... watch your habits, they become character ... watch your character, it becomes your destiny!” The by which we make sense of our world and...

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