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The Process of Self-Sabotage – You Don’t Have to Forgive Everyone – Anxiety All The Time

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The Process of Self-Sabotage – You don’t have to forgive everyone – Anxiety all the time
The Process of Self-Sabotage – You don’t have to forgive everyone – Anxiety all the time
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The Process of Self-Sabotage – You don’t have to forgive everyone – Anxiety all the time
May 1, 2016

Why do we fall off course so easily? When you prioritize tasks that take your time away from the things you want to accomplish, you fall back farther and farther until you are no longer making progress. In fact, you might even end up going backward.

Sometimes you are not in alignment with a bigger vision for yourself. The reason is that you might actually have a value hidden under the surface that you didn’t even know was there. I talk about this self-sabotaging behavior in segment one of this episode.

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Filed Under: anger, anxiety, Ask Paul, Dysfunction, Family, Forgiveness, Guilt, Human Potential, Infidelity, Lying, Manipulation, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Physical Health, Podcast Episode, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Shame, Values, Worry Tagged With: Anxiety All The Time, The Process of Self-Sabotage, You Don't Have to Forgive Everyone

Should You Divorce the Thoughts of Staying in a Bad Marriage?

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I received an email from a woman I’ll call “Jenny.” Jenny is in quite an unempowering situation, being married to a man who simply doesn’t care about her. He makes decisions without her, dismisses her, disrespects her, basically does anything he wants, and also expects her to do what he wants. 

Jenny is in an unhappy marriage.

She reached out to me to thank me for helping her and many others. I was grateful to get her message. 

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Filed Under: Ask Paul, Behavior, Divorce, Human Potential, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Personal Boundaries, Relationships Tagged With: divorce, marriage, unhappy in relationship, When is it time for a divorce?

“I Want to End My Life” – A letter from a 14 year old considering suicide – special episode

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“I Want to End My Life” – A Letter from a 14 Year Old Considering Suicide – Special Episode
“I Want to End My Life” – A Letter from a 14 Year Old Considering Suicide – Special Episode
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“I Want to End My Life” – A Letter from a 14 Year Old Considering Suicide – Special Episode
December 6, 2015

The email was anonymous so I had no information on her whatsoever. In fact, she made sure to conceal anything that identified her, probably so I wouldn’t just pick up the phone and call 911.

But I wouldn’t have done that anyway. Of course, she didn’t know that.

In fact, her letter to me was, in her words, a “last-ditch effort”.

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Filed Under: Ask Paul, Behavior, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Podcast Episode Tagged With: death, dying, struggle, suicide

Adapting to Change and Accepting Death

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Adapting to Change and Accepting Death
Adapting to Change and Accepting Death
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Adapting to Change and Accepting Death
September 20, 2015

adapting to change accepting death personal growth tony robbinsWhen change happens, do you grow with it or suffer and hope it goes away? Growing through change helps you move out of stagnation and stop repeating old behaviors.

In this episode of TOB, I talk about adapting to change. I also bring up the subject of death and acceptance, and how accepting that death is a part of life and letting the emotions come up, whatever they are, will help start the healing process.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Ask Paul, Behavior, Depression, Family, Loneliness, Loss, Negative Emotions, Podcast Episode, Relationships Tagged With: change, death, Learning how to adapt and accept, progress, therapy, violent movies

Do You Forgive? And a Little Bit on Shame

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Forgiveness is not about other people. It’s about you. When you can learn to forgive yourself, even when you aren’t the one to blame, you let go of the negative emotions so that you can take the learnings into your future.

Also, I talk about John Gibson, the pastor who committed suicide after hackers revealed millions of user names and detailed information about the users from the Ashley Madison infidelity and cheating site.

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Filed Under: Ask Paul, Behavior, Beliefs, Forgiveness, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Shame, Toxic People Tagged With: divorce, embarrassment, forgive, Forgiveness, healing, shame

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