The ReStory Blog
Nurturing Secure Attachment: Strategies for Growth and Healing (Part 3 of 3)
Begin your journey towards secure attachment by cultivating self-awareness. Take time to reflect on your attachment patterns and identify any triggers or emotional responses that arise in your relationships. By understanding the influence of past experiences on your present behavior, you can gain clarity and start making conscious choices in your interactions.
Nurturing Secure Bonds: The Developmental Factors of Ambivalent Attachment (Part 2 of 3)
Ambivalent attachment doesn't arise out of thin air. It has its roots in early childhood experiences and the responsiveness of caregivers. If you grew up in an environment where your caregivers were inconsistent in meeting your needs or where there were frequent separations, it could have laid the groundwork for ambivalent attachment.
Unraveling the Complexity of Ambivalent Attachment: A Three-Part Blog Series
Have you ever felt like your emotions were on a never-ending rollercoaster ride? If so, you may resonate with the characteristics of ambivalent attachment. Ambivalent attachment is an attachment style characterized by a blend of dependency and anxiety within relationships. It can leave you feeling like you're on an emotional seesaw, with highs of euphoria and lows of despair.
Spiritual Abuse: The Voice of the Spiritually Abused
The truth is, spiritual abuse can happen in any relationship where an individual misuses their spiritual authority to control, manipulate, or exploit another for their own purposes. While common instances come from pastors, ministry leaders, or church cultures, the same is true when it comes from a parent, spouse, or teacher who misuses their spiritual authority.
Porn addiction: Is there hope?
As I work with clients around their porn use, many are often surprised to discover that porn is not really the problem, but rather a symptom. Let me clarify — of course porn use is damaging and something to stop, but it is not the core thing. Rather, it points to a deeper level of hunger and desire in our souls.
Losing Our High-Capacity Selves
What if the global pandemic left us all an unexpected gift of coming to our own limits and resetting? Can we bless our former high capacity selves and embrace the new ways we want to live?
Single Parenting Part 3: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
The last couple of weeks we have explored a bit around the places that single parenting leaves us tender. I am more than aware that those conversations just begin to scratch the surface, so please hear me when I say that I know there is more. While we cannot conduct an exhaustive examination of the reality of single parenting in this space, my hope is that you leave feeling a bit more seen and a touch more hopeful. What I’d like to do is end this series with ideas that could help you make your life as a single parent just a bit easier.
Single Parenting Part 2: Don’t Tell Me It’s Hopeless
So, what then is the real cost? In an attempt at multiplication, we end up dividing. Your absent partner had/has a role, a voice, and a calling. And so do you. Don’t be tempted to drop your calling to take up theirs. Your children will benefit more from you living more fully and authentically as yourself than if you dilute your presence by attempting to carry out a role that isn’t yours. They lose doubly if you do.
Single Parenting Part 1: What I Miss Most
Many of us find ourselves parenting on our own, whether it’s through divorce, death, abandonment, incarceration, military deployment, choice…there are myriad ways we find ourselves here, and almost all of them hurt. It is therefore impossible to speak of solo parenting without addressing grief.
What is Acudetox?
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AcuWellness (Acudetox) is a valuable adjunct treatment that entails a 5-point acupuncture treatment with the ears. AcuWellness impacts parts of the body related to stress and trauma and its downstream effects are helpful for many different concerns.