Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature

It may feel unfair to ask our partner to take our fears on board. But if they want to help the relationship they will need to make it clear that they won’t ever use the truth (if it is acknowledged) as a weapon. What is so sad is how easily we the accused might, if only the circumstances were more sympathetic, confess to everything. We would in fac

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We do not allow others to control us once we are healthy, but we do understand and feel their pain when we realize that control is a compulsion. Most controlling people cannot help themselves; they are not in control of the controlling. They are not insulting us by trying to control us; rather, they automatically take charge and dominate people and

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Most of our longings can be expressed as a desire to love (self, another person, work, nature, or God) and to be loved (by self, another person, our environment, or God). The first step is to learn to love, and be loved by, ourselves. In this way we establish a foundation for fulfilling all our longings. We learn to identify with a part of ourselve

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