The Question of Who We Really Are At some point in life, most of us look back and realize we are not the same person we used to be. We may recognize ourselves in an old photograph while hardly recognizing the thoughts, fears, dreams, and beliefs that once lived behind that face. British philosopher Derek
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When Emotional Distance Begins to Hurt Being in a relationship with someone who seems emotionally unavailable can leave you feeling lonely even when that person is sitting right beside you. You can love somebody deeply and still feel like there is a wall between the two of you that you cannot quite get through. The
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The Quiet Struggle With Sleep So many of us know what it is like to go to bed tired and discover that sleep has no intention of cooperating. The body may be worn out, but the mind is still carrying on like somebody forgot to tell it the day was over. Thoughts about family, work,
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What Lies Beneath the Ordinary There comes a time in spiritual growth when we begin wondering whether what we have been searching for has been closer than we ever imagined. Dr. Lonnie Edwards invites us to consider that Light, Life, and Love are not distant spiritual treasures waiting somewhere beyond us, but realities already present
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Burnout Does Not Always Look Like a Breakdown When people hear the word burnout, they often picture somebody reaching a dramatic breaking point where one morning they simply cannot keep going. Real burnout can be much quieter than that and may develop while a person still appears to be handling everything just fine. They keep
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A New Question in the Remote-Work Economy Remote work has changed more than where people earn their paycheck because it has also changed how they use the place they call home. People who once left early in the morning and returned around dinnertime may now spend eight or ten working hours inside their residence. That
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Why Some People Continue to Grow Have you ever noticed how some people keep growing throughout life while others seem to remain caught in the same patterns year after year? We sometimes explain the difference by pointing toward intelligence, education, money, talent, opportunity, or plain old luck. Those things certainly matter, but they do not
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The Conversation Nobody Else Hears Every day, each of us carries on a conversation that nobody else can hear, and sometimes we do not realize how much that conversation is influencing us. It happens while we are driving, getting dressed, lying awake at night, facing disappointment, remembering the past, or wondering what tomorrow might bring.
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The First Lessons We Learn About Love Long before most of us are old enough to date, we have already started learning what love and relationships are supposed to feel like. Our first teachers are usually the parents, grandparents, siblings, relatives, and other adults who surround us while we are growing up. We watch how
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When the Paycheck Cannot Wait A lot of career advice sounds good when you have enough money in the bank to wait several weeks for the right opportunity to come along. Real life does not always give people that kind of breathing room. Sometimes a person loses a job on Friday and by Monday morning
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