Resisting Manipulation
Sometimes, people will try to get you to do things you don't want to do by badgering and manipulating you. They might give you lots of reasons, ridicule, beg, or accuse you. They hope that if they try hard enough and long enough, they will wear you down and convince you to give in. Here's a simple technique to... >Read More
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For Relief, Tell Someone
Samuel looked woefully at his departing relatives. Then he began wailing loudly. He knew they were leaving him with these strange people. Samuel's parents had been killed by a bomb that had hit their house in Beirut, and his relatives couldn't afford to take care of him.
So Samuel joined the 40 other Arab boys who lived at this... >Read More
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Outcast
Stripped of dignity and hope, beaten and malnourished. The abandoned six-year-old lay on a mound of garbage wanting to die. Then out of nowhere, a ray of sunshine pierced the black hole that enveloped her.
Growing up in Korea
The city of Daejon was just waking up, still trying to forget the nightmare of the Korean War, when eight-year-old Stephanie...... >Read More
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Rejection, Rape and an Angel from God
For most of my life I looked for love, but I looked in all the wrong places, and always came out of the experience feeling degraded and all alone.
I am the youngest of 3 girls in our family. Many times, it was made clear to me by my mother and sisters that I did not belong with them. It... >Read More
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Domestic Violence: Where to Get Help
1. Most communities have a Department of Social Services. You can learn from them what help is available to women and children in an abusive situation. They can inform you of financial, practical, and counseling aid available in your area, as well as of "safe houses" or places of refuge. They may help you find another place to live,... >Read More
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Surviving Emotional Steamrollers
How to live with--and love--someone who tends to be controlling and insensitive.
What is a "steamroller?" That is someone who is domineering, controlling, insensitive to the feelings of others--and always right! Webster defines the colloquial meaning of steamroller as "any agency that ruthlessly overrides and crushes."
And we have folks in...... >Read More
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Sibling Violence: My Struggle to Stop Hating My Abusive Brother
I hated my brother. He teased and tormented me relentlessly. I was only ten.
One morning I stared at a passage in my Bible. My pain was multiplied by what I read: “Anyone who hates another Christian is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don't have eternal life within them” (1 John 3:15). I checked another... >Read More
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Handling Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment can and does happen, even in good companies. By definition,... >more
"I'm Sorry" - Blame-Game or Accountability?
A powerful tool for health as we approach the new year can... >more
What Do You Fear?
