Approval Addict
#5 IN MY CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER JOURNEY THROUGH ROBERT MCGEE’S BEST-SELLING BOOK, THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE. How much of your life have you wasted trying to gain the approval of others? My Performance + Your Approval = My Self-Worth Our self-concept is determined not only by how we view ourselves, but by how we think others perceive us. Basing…
We Sometimes Don’t Receive God’s Truth
#4 IN MY CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER JOURNEY THROUGH ROBERT MCGEE’S BEST-SELLING BOOK, THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE. Obstacles To Receiving As wonderful as it is to be pleasing to God, as much peace and joy this would bring to our lives, what are our internal obstacles that keep us from raching out and grasping this reality? Reasons For Obedience The…
Justification: Exchanging Ledgers
#3 IN MY CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER JOURNEY THROUGH ROBERT MCGEE’S BEST-SELLING BOOK, THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE. God Has Canceled Satan’s Formula When you equate your self-worth with performance and others’ opinions, you are judging yourself based on a satanic formula designed to enslave you in the performance trap. Thankfully God has canceled this equation altogether! Visualize two ledgers. On…
Effects Of The Fear Of Failure
#2 IN MY CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER JOURNEY THROUGH ROBERT MCGEE’S BEST-SELLING BOOK, THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE.. The fear of failure can affect our lives in many ways. Recognizing and confronting teh fear of failure in each of these experiences could result in dramatic changes in your life. Although we all will continue to experience the fear of failure to…
The Performance Trap
#1 IN MY CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER JOURNEY THROUGH ROBERT MCGEE’S BEST-SELLING BOOK, THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE.. Most of us are unaware of how thoroughly Satan has deceived us. He has led us blindly down a path of destruction, making us captives of our inability to meet our standards consistently and slaves of low self-esteem. Satan has shackled us in…
Codependence Is Identity Dependence – Part 5
FiFTH IN A SERIES OF POSTINGS ON THIS TOPIC, TAKEN FROM MY BOOK, ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION: GOD TURNS OUR BROKEN PIECES INTO MASTERPIECES The 21st Century Codependent Author Melody Beattie, in her book The New Codependency, provides another meaningful glimpse into how codependency has adapted to an ever-changing world: Although second, third, and forth generation codependents…