by Allison | Feb 22, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Co-Dependency, Enabling, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Wisdom & Resources
If we believe wholeheartedly that God is personally involved in our life, we would expect that He has something specific in mind for us to do while we’re here on earth. In their book, Being Christian, Exploring Where You, God, and Life Connect, authors Stephen...
by Allison | Feb 14, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Wisdom & Resources
GET READY…Keeping Your Eye on the Goal! It’s important to know our ultimate goal, no matter what we set out to accomplish. Runners who enter the annual Boston Marathon know if they want to successfully complete the marathon they will ultimately have to run...
by Allison | Feb 12, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Enabling, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People
I’d like to believe that most difficult people do not intentionally set out to be difficult, that the people who do cause us pain don’t wake up every morning and say, “Today I’m going to be as difficult as humanly possible and make life miserable for...
by Allison | Jan 31, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
SANITY is what we gain when we shift our priorities and stop focusing on dieting, food, and on our weight—when we stop focusing on the problems of others, and on the situations and circumstances of life, and begin to focus on changing our own attitudes and...
by Allison | Jan 29, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
Where do you think your true calling is? Are you living in the truth and light of that calling? If not, why not? How many years have we wasted doing things we don’t want to do? Being people we don’t want to be? Living lives we never imagined for ourselves? When was...
by Allison | Jan 24, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
Training ourselves to listen to our hunger may be one of the most challenging things we’ll ever do in our lives. We’ve spent decades eating what we’ve wanted when we wanted, or depriving ourselves of eating what we wanted when we wanted because we were on yet another...
