by Jodie Stevens | Jan 6, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope |
If you keep struggling with the same goal year after year, try to identify what your blocker is. It could be fear of success. It could be fear of failure. It’s possible to have both simultaneously. Maybe you’ve been codependent and haven’t followed...
by Jodie Stevens | Oct 6, 2016 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope, Love, Patience |
The recovery process is often described as like “peeling back layers of an onion.” Each new season produces a harvest of discoveries. Sometimes they make our soul blossom like a flower; other times they’re like a drought withering our insides with pain, sorrow and...
by Jodie Stevens | Sep 26, 2016 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope |
“It is when we try to make our will conform with God’s that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was the most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting...
by Jodie Stevens | Aug 15, 2016 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope |
Have these maniacal self-doubt instigators ever won you over? “Nobody wants me here.” “I don’t belong.” “Any moment somebody’s going to see I’m just a fake and I’m really not good at my job.” Or the famous line from the...
by Jodie Stevens | Jul 25, 2016 | Choices, Fear and Anxiety, Forgiveness, Happiness, Patience |
On old college friend posted this on Facebook: “If you’re a supporting (such and such) candidate un-friend me now because you’re too stupid to talk to.” As a society we’ve become polarized by so many things. For a lot of us, being right is more important than being...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 18, 2016 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Love |
I know it doesn’t sound very holy, but sometimes I chuckle in church when I’m singing worship songs like I Surrender All because I know how difficult it is to surrender anything. I usually surrender my will after I’ve tried it my way a thousand times, proving the...
