In this episode, we are going to discuss secrets. Why do we love secrets? Secrets give us a false pleasure that gives us a sense of allusion or control.
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The Definition of Trust
In our book Learning How to Trust we say, “if we are to make any progress toward reclaiming trust in our lives, we must all be working with the same definition of “trust.” Words are critical to our thinking. Words define, characterize, and become a substitute for the...
Identifying Your Dragon Eggs
How do we become aware of our blind spots? Sometimes our habits end up controlling us. In our book, Learning How to Trust, we call these blindspots “dragon eggs.” At first, they might not seem harmful, but because we are blind to the negative effects, they end up...
Out of Control Dragon Eggs
Many of us don’t take the time to find out the root of our problems - or our "dragon eggs" as we call them in our book Learning To Trust. These are attitudes and actions that we think we can control but they really end up controlling us.
Rising to the Level of Our Trust
Last week, Alan Heller, Pauly Heller, and Ed Delph, the authors of Learning How to Trust, talked about how our decision revealed certain things about us. They also touched on a process of how to trust. This week, we continue that discussion by focusing on three...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller: Identifying Our Bad Habits
In this week’s Trust Minute, we discuss how to become free from our bad habits.
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...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller: What is the Definition of trust?
In this week’s Trust Minute, we discuss how our perspective of trust is often clouded by unreconciled relationships.
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!
Trust Minute with Alan Heller: Only You Can Prevent Dragon Fires
In this week’s Trust Minute, we discuss how to prevent bad habits from forming and taking over our lives.
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...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Rethinking How You Think
Success, power, money, and beauty are all things we think will make us happy. But what if you manage to have all these things, but you’re still unhappy? Do you feel like there’s still something missing? Watch this week’s Trust Minute with Alan Heller to learn about the dangers and emptiness that come with success.
Trust in God First: Rethinking How You Think
As a young man, our co-author, Ed Delph, went through a painful divorce. During that time, he sought direction from God’s Word. For Ed, this spiritual counsel was more than information — he received illumination and was transformed. How do you think of God? Is He a...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Emptiness of Success
Success, power, money, and beauty are all things we think will make us happy. But what if you manage to have all these things, but you’re still unhappy? Do you feel like there’s still something missing? Watch this week’s Trust Minute with Alan Heller to learn about the dangers and emptiness that come with success.
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
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...
How Can You Feel Empty With So Much Success?
If success were the key to happiness, there would not be so many unhappy people who have success, money, beauty, or power. Read more on why you are successful in life, but still feel like you’re missing something!
How to Set and Reach Your Goals in 2019
For some people, the new year is the start of a new school year in August or September. For some, it is January 1. Whichever is true for you, here are some tips that may help you in planning your personal and work life for this year. At Walk and Talk, we call them the...
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...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Idolatry of Applause
Did you know that you might be facing a battle with idolatry and not even know it? At first, idols (those things in our life that we put ahead of God) appear harmless and sometimes even beneficial. Read this week’s blog to learn more about these sly idols and how to avoid them
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...