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Trusting Your Gut – Can You Reconcile with Someone You’ve Hurt – Making Decisions Easier

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Trusting Your Gut – Can You Reconcile with Someone You’ve Hurt – Making Decisions Easier
Trusting Your Gut – Can You Reconcile with Someone You’ve Hurt – Making Decisions Easier
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Trusting Your Gut – Can You Reconcile with Someone You’ve Hurt – Making Decisions Easier
August 13, 2017

Do you trust your gut? Do you want to?

In segment one, I share how I almost got conned by a store clerk and how I used my instinct to keep from getting deceived (and calling him out at the same time).

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Filed Under: abuse, Control, Deception, Decisions, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Withdrawal, Manipulation, Marriage, Obsession, Podcast Episode, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Toxic People Tagged With: Easy way to make decisions, Reconciling with someone you've hurt, trusting your instincts

Rekindling with toxic family – The long-term results of honoring yourself – Even the victim plays a role – Contact or no contact your ex

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Rekindling with toxic family – The long-term results of honoring yourself – Even the victim plays a role – Contact or no contact your ex
Rekindling with toxic family – The long-term results of honoring yourself – Even the victim plays a role – Contact or no contact your ex
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Rekindling with toxic family – The long-term results of honoring yourself – Even the victim plays a role – Contact or no contact your ex
June 18, 2017

How do you go about rekindling with toxic and/or dysfunctional family members? Is it worth “going home” and starting up those old, dysfunctional, family get-togethers again?

Is it possible to avoid the toxicity of a dysfunctional family past? There is a way to return to a toxic family environment but it’s going to take some courage to be the person you want to be with the people that have always known you the way you were. I talk about that and more in segment one.

In segment two, I read a message from someone who shares what it’s like honoring yourself. Joshua says that he’s been taking steps to stand up for himself and express his truths to people that he never has before. He is showing up as that authentic person he’s always wanted to be and things are happening for him in a way that never has.

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Filed Under: abuse, childhood, Children, Control, Decisions, Depression, Desires, Divorce, Dysfunction, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Withdrawal, enabling, Family, Human Potential, Loneliness, Manipulation, Marriage, Narcissism, Personal Boundaries, Podcast Episode, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Toxic People, Victim Mentality Tagged With: Contact or no contact your ex, Emotional Abuse, Even the victim plays a role, Rekindling with toxic family, The long-term results of honoring yourself, verbal abuse

When You Haven’t Achieved Life Goals Yet – Walking the Line Between Partner and Consoler – Waiting for Your Ex to Return to the Relationship

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When You Haven’t Achieved Life Goals Yet – Walking the Line Between Partner and Consoler – Waiting for Your Ex to Return to the Relationship
When You Haven’t Achieved Life Goals Yet – Walking the Line Between Partner and Consoler – Waiting for Your Ex to Return to the Relationship
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When You Haven’t Achieved Life Goals Yet – Walking the Line Between Partner and Consoler – Waiting for Your Ex to Return to the Relationship
May 28, 2017

What happens when you reach that age where you thought you would have accomplished certain things in life but are nowhere close to what you set out to do 10, 20, 30, or more years ago? Do you get depressed? Do you have a mid-life crisis?

Or… maybe you see that there’s a bigger plan in the works for your life. If that’s too spiritual a view for you, perhaps it’s time to come to terms with your fears and accept realities you don’t want to accept.

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Filed Under: Ask Paul, Beliefs, Career, Decisions, Desires, Divorce, Finances, Human Potential, Loneliness, Marriage, Passion, Regret, Relationships Tagged With: Waiting for Your Ex to Return to the Relationship, Walking the Line Between Partner and Consoler, When You Haven't Achieved Life Goals Yet

Fear-Based Decision Making – Wanting more than friendship – Giving it all away for free

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Fear-Based Decision Making – Wanting more than friendship – Giving it all away for free
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Fear-Based Decision Making – Wanting more than friendship – Giving it all away for free
May 14, 2017

Do you make decisions based on what’s in alignment with the highest intention for yourself, or do you make them based on fear?

One path almost always leads to turmoil, and the other leads to getting what you want out of life almost every time. Fear-based decision-making is the topic for segment one in today’s episode.

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Filed Under: anxiety, Ask Paul, Career, Decisions, Desires, Fears, Human Potential, Jealousy, Loneliness, Podcast Episode, Relationships, Thinking Tagged With: Fear-Based Decision Making, Giving it all away for free, Wanting more than friendship

Holding on to regrets and resentments – What is healthy communication? – When it can’t get any worse

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Holding on to regrets and resentments – What is healthy communication? – When it can’t get any worse
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Holding on to regrets and resentments – What is healthy communication? – When it can’t get any worse
May 7, 2017

What resentments or regrets are you holding on to?

Sometimes years can go by while you keep a firm grasp of what causes you stress simply because you can’t let go of the idea that you could have made different choices in life.

Or, could you have made different choices or taken a different direction in your life? If so, why didn’t you? Sounds like an important topic to discuss. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Ask Paul, Decisions, Depression, Human Potential, Loneliness, Negative Emotions, Overwhelm, Podcast Episode, Regret, Relationships, Suicide Tagged With: Holding on to regrets and resentments, What is healthy communication?, When it can't get any worse

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