This teaching is so so helpful. I was able to locate myself and my deficit. I have no problem opening up to another believer, but rarely have I gotten the encouragement that my heart longed for. So, I think it's my people picker that has been broken. Perhaps I never learned this essential skill. We were made for healthy connection and when we don't get the right kind of support, we do experience a deficit that affects other important areas of our lives. Did not know there was a connection to being able to perform, move forward with goals, our talents, gifts, God-given abilities, and life's decisions, etc. Not until I listened to this a few times did I get understanding...wow. I have taken this topic as a class and it was extremely helpful to me. I hope to take it again. Taking theses classes once a year, SAFE People AND BOUNDARIES is probably best for me! I want to keep learning and believing there are good, SAFE people out there to connect with and do life with. No one is perfect. Certainly I am not. But safe, supportive relationships, [people who are for you], are essential for every human being. AND DISCERNING a person's character is critical to navigate through life to avoid unsafe people too ~ A BIG THANKS to you, Drs Cloud & Townsend!! 💞
Finding safe people is not easy. For me, the first step was becoming a safe person to myself. When I stopped abandoning myself and being hypercritical and judgmental of myself, I was no longer attracted to, or attracting, those who were abandoners and hypercritical and judgmental of me. Twelve Step programs are a godsend to me.
I'm running out of safe people. I'm experiencing people withdrawing from me when I try to share my vulnerable feelings. I don't know where to go to find safe people any more. They are not in church. In fact, it feels like God has left the church as well.
This teaching is so so helpful. I was able to locate myself and my deficit. I have no problem opening up to another believer, but rarely have I gotten the encouragement that my heart longed for.
So, I think it's my people picker that has been broken. Perhaps I never learned this essential skill. We were made for healthy connection and when we don't get the right kind of support, we do experience a deficit that affects other important areas of our lives. Did not know there was a connection to being able to perform, move forward with goals, our talents, gifts, God-given abilities, and life's decisions, etc. Not until I listened to this a few times did I get understanding...wow.
I have taken this topic as a class and it was extremely helpful to me. I hope to take it again. Taking theses classes once a year, SAFE People AND BOUNDARIES is probably best for me!
I want to keep learning and believing there are good, SAFE people out there to connect with and do life with.
No one is perfect. Certainly I am not. But safe, supportive relationships, [people who are for you], are essential for every human being. AND DISCERNING a person's character is critical to navigate through life to avoid unsafe people too ~
A BIG THANKS to you, Drs Cloud & Townsend!! 💞
Finding safe people is not easy. For me, the first step was becoming a safe person to myself. When I stopped abandoning myself and being hypercritical and judgmental of myself, I was no longer attracted to, or attracting, those who were abandoners and hypercritical and judgmental of me. Twelve Step programs are a godsend to me.
I'm running out of safe people. I'm experiencing people withdrawing from me when I try to share my vulnerable feelings. I don't know where to go to find safe people any more. They are not in church. In fact, it feels like God has left the church as well.
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Joyce meyer lost all her friends and her church kicked her out when she said God had called her to teach the Word. She had Dave