Self-Image – What’s Yours?
We all have a view of ourselves that’s pretty well defined and often not all that flattering. And we seem to spend a good deal of our lives shaping and trimming and honing and adjusting that self-image to enhance its appeal to others and to ourselves. Yet, such enhancements, despite the rigorous nature of them, never seem quite sufficient. This … [Read more...]
Purpose in Pain
The reactionary response that pain naturally and quite adamantly elicits is one designed to eradicate the pain. Our knee-jerk reaction when in pain is to determine methodologies, or strategies, or obtain resources designed to eliminate the pain as cleanly and as quickly as possible. Any other notion is typically never even considered in light of … [Read more...]
Perfection – The Elusive Search
It is interesting that the pursuit of perfection, which so many of us are embroiled in, is in reality an impossible goal. And it is odd that we would put so much thought and energy into a goal that in reality we will never achieve. It would follow then that if we are intent upon such an impossible goal, something of great need must be driving … [Read more...]
Love – What Is It ?
What is love? Some questions are those mystically timeless questions that leave us breathless in our pursuit of them. Once we’ve pursued such questions they become ever more compelling because they have withheld their answers from us. Such is this wondrous, yet vexing question about love. Yet, to wholly embrace this most wonderful yet … [Read more...]
Grief and Loss – A Different Perspective
When we experience grief and loss, all we see is grief and loss. Our hearts are smeared thick with searing grief and our eyes are rendered blind by a loss that we’re struggling to embrace as real. Our worlds teeter and our lives wrestle with the massive holes of things torn away. We wrestle with an existence now altered beyond hope of restoration … [Read more...]
Have We Forgotten – Lulled to Sleep
Much of our life is sleepwalking. We simply go through the motions without any real thought that all we’re doing is going through the motions. We pre-program our lives to a methodical cadence that pounds out a mesmerizing rhythm to which we march. And as our lives pound out this incessantly tinny and empty cadence, we find ourselves on a circular … [Read more...]
Griping and Complaining
It is our natural tendencies that too often run unchecked and unquestioned. One of those is our tendency to gripe and complain. Such an orientation is birthed of a negative life perspective that generates a toxic negativity as a first response. It can likewise be a product of entitlement or a sense of being owed where anything but consistent good … [Read more...]
Fear – The Monster in the Closet
Fear is no stranger to any of us. In fact, it might be said that fear is one of the greatest killer of dreams and slayer of passions. Fear turns us away at the very moment we find ourselves standing on the brink of unimaginable success. It falsely declares that the possible is impossible. And it herds us into the suffocating corrals of … [Read more...]
Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC