In this week's podcast, we explore what to do when you have unrealistic expectations. One of the foundational problems we see frequently in marriage counseling, is unmet expectations. Its natural to have some healthy expectations of your partner. But often problems...
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Life Shaping Events and Lingering Influences
On today's podcast, we are going to learn three things. Number one, how our life-shaping events have lingering influences. Number two, human and eternal perspectives on the trials of trust. Number three ways to pray about trust.
The Enemies of Our Trust
This week, we are going to learn two things. Number one, the enemies of our trust and number two, the anti-trust strategy these enemies use against us.
Dealing With Our Judgments and Generalizations
This week, we are going to discuss how the judgments we make about ourselves, the generalizations we make about others, and the vows we make in life, have an emotional and spiritual impact on us. Learn how to deal with these three topics from a biblical perspective.
Our Identity
This week we dive deep into the issue of identity. We will tackle these ideas: Running away from your identity, is a race you'll never win. God wants you to be yourself. What truly matters about identity?
More Lessons From Our Dragon Eggs
This week, we will dive deep into why we fear exposure of our secrets. What truly happens when we ask for help? Most of us would be really surprised. Listen to this week’s podcast to learn how to apply these principles of trust to your life
Why We Love Our Secrets
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.
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...