Here is a good exercise to use to help you progress out of the pain of suffering. Is this your experience? Try these steps while you meditate on this drawing: What suffering have you experienced that you remember clearly? List them all. Which of these sufferings have...
Exercise: construct during your deconstruction
This is a picture of a couple of watercolor paintings I did some time ago. I miss it. Let me tell you a story. Making art was an important part of my healing and reconstruction process. I didn't know this at the beginning of my deconstruction. It didn't know this...
exercise: the emotional boundaries you need
This is a really good article about emotional boundaries for work. But they can apply to family, friends, and church as well. It even applies to TLS! Here's a chart: Read the entire article: CLICK HERE
Exercise: Embrace your heresy, embrace your heretic!
This is a very simple exercise that I find myself doing every once in a while. It's become a kind of marker of where I am compared to where I've been and where I may be going. Here it is: What is one thing you believed 5 years ago that you now no longer believe?...
Exercise: How to refute criticisms you’ve received!
Here's an exercise that you might find helpful. One of the things we all confront when we decide to walk our own path, forge our own trail, or live our own lives, is criticism from others. Sometimes it is intentionally mean to hurt us. But other times it is just the...
Exercise: dive into the intellectual deep end
Something I do that keeps me feeling alive is to read a book that is over my head. Right now I'm reading the middle-ages German mystic, Meister Eckhart's sermons and writings. Wow! There are TONS of books out there that linger in the shallow end of the pool. Tons!...
Exercise: 44 minute Documentary “I Escaped a Cult”
I just watched a powerful documentary, "I Escaped a Cult", available on YouTube, as well as Netflix. *** Trigger Warning: very honest and descriptive, including rape, sexual abuse, and explicit about mind-control techniques. I found it personally disturbing because...
Exercise: Understanding Your Emotions
Here is a chart to help us understand our emotions. You know how many of us were raised to not trust our emotions? Then do many of you remember how religion teaches us the same thing... that our emotions are not to be trusted or taken seriously? As a result we become...
Exercise: Who was your biggest influencer?
I find it is helpful and heart-enlarging to think about the people who have had important and positive influences on my life. I'm not talking about family or friends, but people who invested in me, mentored me, taught me... influenced me in such a way that it changed...
Exercise: Art Therapy Road Sign
For today's Saturday Spiritual Supplement, I'm suggesting we do a little art therapy. I came across this little art therapy exercise. I'm not much into this kind of thing but this one spoke to me. Exercise: What one (ONE!) road sign would you choose for yourself for...
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