When I swore I would never write again, I experienced intense depression. It felt like something had died in me. For the next week, my heart mourned as I went about my regular mom routine – taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, and shopping. […]
I have a tale to tell. But it has to start from the end instead of the beginning in order to be merciful to everyone involved. I’ll divide it into parts or separate posts. This is part one. […]
In Blaming Judgment we attribute too much responsibility to other Causes as a Resolution Process. We teach the child to blame another child, her parents, or other Causes, without also evaluating her own choices that contributed to the Conflict. The goal for Toxic Blame, whether we are conscious of it or not, is to absolve […]
Imbalanced Judgment splits down the middle. There is Toxic Shame and there is Toxic Blame. In Toxic Shame, we attribute too much responsibility to one person as a Resolution Process. We teach the Child to blame herself without also teaching her to consider the other Causes involved. In doing this we subject her to more […]
Being beautiful has been very important to me since I was really young. And for me, being skinny, not fat, was a big part of what it meant to be beautiful. In my mind, I wasn’t as yet so successful in obtaining that desire. In fact, I saw myself as failing. I started keeping a […]
In a previous blog post, I described a scene out of my own life story. It was a Conflict. It was an illustration of a relationship that was not working. The relationship was dysfunctional. It seemed to be failing in its purpose. There were two people involved, members of the same family, brother and sister. […]
Last weekend I watched the movie “Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration” again. In one of my Special Ops Moms blog posts I wrote how I felt about the movie when I first saw it: “When I sat in the theater after seeing this for the first time, I could not get up. I […]
In the Standing Steadfast in Christ blog post, I talked about this amazing strength our Savior has to remain balanced in the face of adversity. I spoke of how much I admired this character trait that I also saw in Joseph Smith. A major part of the reason I admire this trait so much is […]
It never fails that whenever I increase my sacrifice level to improve myself, temptation conversely increases. I am tempted to look for other forms of evidence for my value (besides the Mark–my proximity to the Lord) that things are really improving. […]
https://specialopsmoms.blogspot.com/2016/07/are-you-eagle-in-chicken-coop.html […]
https://specialopsmoms.blogspot.com/2016/05/balancing-strengths-and-weaknesses.html […]
