Posts in Relationships and Trust

How to Have Healthy Boundaries with Family

I’d like to think many of us have been here at some point… You know that place where you love your parents but could use a heads-up before they show up knocking at your front door. Or maybe you’ve noticed how your typically adored sibling has been unloading more than you have the brain space for right now. And sometimes, it’s nice just to unplug and recharge—but doing so proves tricky when your neighbors start shouting over the fence the moment you step out for some air. So, what can we do?

Mental Health Insights, Relationships and Trust, Emotional HealingJeff MoweryNovember 21, 2022boundaries, family, behavior, healthy boundaries, setting boundariesComment

A Drop Of Hope

I’ve had ample opportunities to publish the book, but turned them all down. The truth is, the book was no good and I knew it. In my mind, I would say things like “you surely know enough to help people now,” or “you know so much about life, just do it.” But deep down I knew that I would change in ways that the book could not. Then what?

Special Needs, Self-Worth, Doubt, Counseling and Therapy, Mental Health Insights, Relationships and TrustJeff MoweryOctober 23, 2020Comment

Choices

Hopelessness, I know, can seem like an abyss of nothingness in your heart craving to be filled with something you just don’t have. It is like someone hooked a giant sucking machine to you and sucked out all the life—I’ve been there. I’ve felt it.

Perfection, Anxiety, Counseling and Therapy, Mental Health Insights, Relationships and TrustJeff MoweryOctober 1, 2020Comment

Should You Criticize Someone You Love?

Very few people enjoy criticizing others. If you’re like me and very empathetic, you can even feel the pain of others as you criticize them (not to mention your own), so you naturally avoid it. I believe you need to criticize those you love, though. Here’s why. If you don’t criticize their behavior toward you, you’ll likely break up with them (or vice versa)…

Relationships and TrustJeff MoweryJune 20, 2019Restoring Lives Counseling Services relationships, criticize, love, empathy, break up, peace, behavior, argue, argumentsComment

Sense of Self: Stage One

In this article I’ll be using Erickson’s Eight Stages of development (link included below) as an outline, as his understanding of how humans develop into stable and flourishing individuals is creative and thorough…

Self-Worth, Relationships and TrustKrista ThomasMarch 6, 2019Restoring Lives Counseling Services sense of self, self-acceptance, self-esteem, self love, self image, low self worth, self worth, self crisisComment

Are you a poor judge of…yourself?

Have you ever been to court? Have you ever stood in suspense as the judge contemplated your sentence? I have. And it blows. There's a sense of fear and dread, followed by this weird emotion of "whatever! I'll deal with whatever comes down the pike!" all wrapped up into one discomforting package…

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