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...
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...
What Does it Mean to be a Good Father?
What does it mean to be a good father? One of Billy Graham’s regrets. How do we deal with our regrets?