Quit fooling ourselves! Attending rehab for drug and sexual addiction, the young woman approached the church podium to bear her testimony in her Latter-day Saint Utah ward's Sacrament meeting service. She talked honestly and courageously about her continued struggle with addiction. Sadly, someone in the congregation passed a note to this young woman's mother. It read, "How dare you let your daughter get up and say that!" I admired the mother's response: She immediately sent back the note ... VIEW POST
Step One: "The Truth Shall Set You Free"
Do You Have to Feel Wrong In Order to Feel Right?
Thinking right to feel right. Head bowed, he started crying again. Afraid to reveal too much of himself, he spoke carefully. Listening to him, my heart was breaking along with his already broken one. "I never realized life would be so hard, and I'd be so unhappy," he said. (He wasn't even 20, but he talked as if he were an old man.) During the next several months, my husband and I tried to win his trust. And we knew he wanted to trust us. But he couldn't let go---fear and denial held him ... VIEW POST
No Pain, No Gain
Ready to hug a cactus? As a college instructor, my job is to inflict pain on my students---the pain of discipline and hard work. Student responses to pain consistently fall into two basic categories: Those who are willing to submit to the pain and those who resist. The "submitters" graduate with a college degree. The "resisters" drop out. The more a student resists the pain, the lower his or her grade. Paradoxically, students who resist pain create a host of other ... VIEW POST
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