Discover the various ways you might be abandoning yourself that are causing depression, and how loving yourself heals depression. . . . → Read More: Loving Yourself Heals Depression
 
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 Comments are closed  Relationships  Depression, emotional healing, Inner Bonding, love yourself, loving adult, self worth, spiritual guidance, wounded self Turning the other cheek can mean different things to different people. Discover a meaning that you might not have previously considered. . . . → Read More: Loving Yourself Means Turning the Other Cheek Comments are closed Relationships, Self Improvement & Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth compassion, Higher Self, Inner Bonding, Jesus, judgmental, love yourself, loving yourself, Margaret Paul, powers that be, self-compassion, self-judgment, self-love, spiritual guidance, spirituality, Turn the other cheek Are you asking your higher self for the loving action and not receiving answers? Ernie was having trouble accessing his higher self. He wanted to know about the loving action toward himself, but he couldn’t seem to receive any answers. Because his inner child often felt abandoned and unloved due to the lack of loving action, Ernie often felt disconnected and depressed. In one of our sessions, I asked Ernie to open to seeing his core Self, his essence, his natural Inner child. I asked him to open to seeing his essence through the loving eyes of his spiritual Guidance. “What do you see when you look at yourself through loving eyes?” I asked. Continue reading Loving Yourself       In your daily life, are you guided by fear or by love? What are the fears that block being loving to yourself and others? How often is the question, “What is loving to myself and others – what is in my highest good and the highest good of another?” the question that guides your actions? Is there something in the way of you asking this question? What is the fear that gets in the way of loving yourself? Ethan’s fear is that “If I open to loving, I will be weak and then easily taken advantage of. I might lose my sharpness in business and then lose money. Business people will see that I’m a soft touch and run right over me.” Continue reading What Prevents You From Loving Yourself? Are you longing for connection? Discover what you need to do to create loving connection with another. Deeply connecting with another is one of the great joys of life, and is something most of us long for. Deep connection takes away loneliness and gives us the experience of being deeply known. We feel safe and loved when our hearts connect. Research indicates that the happiest people in the world are those who live in communities where they feel connected with each other. Of course we long for connection when we don’t have it in our lives. But sometimes it seems elusive – even in committed relationships. Larissa asked me, “Am I being needy when I am longing for connection with my spouse?” A good question, and the answer is not simple. If you are longing for connection with your spouse because you are feeling alone and empty inside and you hope that he will fill you up and make you feel worthy and lovable, then the answer is yes – you are being needy. Continue reading Longing For Connection Are you being selfish if you do what brings you joy, even if others don’t like it? Do you feel trapped, believing you can’t really take loving care of yourself without being unloving to others? One of the questions I often hear from my clients is, “If I take care of myself and . . . → Read More: When You Love Yourself, You Love Others |
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