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Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Certified Problem Gambling Counselor, Certified Anger Management Specialist, Christian Counselor for Depression, Anxiety, Codependency, Personality Disorders – Canton, Woodstock, Holly Springs GA & Video/Phone

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Category: Life Patterns

Life Patterns are the systems we develop to interact with the world around us and the people in it. The primary goal of the system is the immediate elimination of the stress that occurs whenever we encounter new situations. However, many Life Patterns we adopt are neither healthy nor realistic nor helpful for achieving long-term success in negotiating life’s continual stream of unexpected and uncomfortable events.

Toxic Self Talk

May 4, 2017
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| Life Patterns, Self Talk

In Proverbs 23:7, the scripture that says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.”  That means that […]

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Going There

April 28, 2017
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| Life Patterns

Do I really want to go there?  That is the question that had been running through my head ever since […]

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Getting There

April 28, 2017
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| Life Patterns

So God got me to the place where I actually wanted to feel emotions again and be capable of interpersonal […]

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God Has Emotions

April 28, 2017
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| Life Patterns

When people encounter traumatic feelings, it is not unusual for them to separate themselves from the feelings as well as […]

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Restoring Your Emotions

April 28, 2017
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So many emotions.  I used to play with them, fantasize about situations that would evoke different feelings.  Sometimes I would […]

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What I Learned This Week: Self-Talk, Maggots and a Tender Heart

April 28, 2017
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| Life Patterns, Weekly Messages

I love how God will always come through when you surrender to the Holy Spirit’s leading, and ask for His […]

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Introduction To Self Talk

April 12, 2017
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| Life Patterns, Self Talk

I made a protein shake in one of those shaker cups. I took out some vitamins and left them in […]

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What I Learned This Week: The Flesh Can’t Control The Flesh, “Not Feeling” Is Bad

April 12, 2017
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The more I study and ask the Lord to reveal things, wouldn’t you know, He answers!  This is what I’ve […]

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CRAZIFIED & OUT OF CONTROL! Why You STILL Can’t Control Yourself & The ABCs of Changing That

April 11, 2017
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Over and over again, I see and hear the same thing – in myself and others.

“If I just try harder, THIS time I’ll be able to control myself.”  This thought makes us CRAZIFIED, repeating this futile insanity cycle over and over again! That is because we mistake the symptoms for the sickness, trying to change our fleshly actions instead of uncovering what is prompting us to do it – namely a harmful lie that is slowly destroying us from the inside out.

“I can make myself stop drinking, eating, drugging, shopping, etc. if I just find a new strategy.  I know I can cure myself by changing my behavior!”  But it doesn’t work that way, and here is why.

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Step Study – Long-Term Intensive Spiritual Community

April 10, 2017
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| Celebrate Recovery, Life Patterns, Spiritual Community

Step Study saved my life. There is no other way to put it.  I have been in a Step Study […]

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