How Can We Find Hope Through God and Goals?
Hope can help us determine our goals as well as give us a purpose. We also need to ask ourselves what brings us joy in our daily lives. One way to find joy everyday is to understand that God gave us this day. By setting a goal with achievable steps we are also creating hope within ourselves and our relationships.
Becoming Proactive vs. Reactive
We react all the time, but it may not always be in the way we want. The Control Box, is a tool that can help us identify what we have control over and what can happen if we choose to take action or not. Becoming proactive over reactive can be difficult because as humans we are prone to be reactive! That is why it is important to practice these skills.
Financial Stress in Relationships
When partners discuss budgeting and finances regularly they are setting a routine of coming together and showing each other that they are invested in one another. It goes so much farther than just money!
Rise out of the ashes!
The mythical phoenix is reborn when it is consumed by fire and rises from the ashes as a new and changed bird. Similarly, there is a species of conifer tree that requires fires to open up the seed pod. Without the fire, that tree will not be able to reproduce. Our experiences can become the fire that consumes us giving birth to something different and beautiful.
Are you playing with your partner?
Often our experience of the mundane aspects of life gets in the way of being able to have fun or enjoy something creative and novel. The ironic thing about play is that it is an executive function in our brain that creates social bonding, opens creative opportunities, and produces natural healing properties in the body.*
Love is a gift, not something earned!
It helps to see yourself not as a human-doing but a human being… Let me say that again another way- Your value is determined by your state of being, not your behavior (doing). When you can see yourself this way, you are then allowing yourself to see others this way and raise the quality of all your relationships! To have a resilient relationship, you must first become resilient yourself.
Do you thrive in conflict?
One of the best ways to not only survive but thrive in conflict is to grow in resiliency.