by Ross Bishop This sounds incredible, but every person on the planet starts out life feeling wounded. Every person! How crazy is that? Four billion people, each one feeling as though something was wrong with them. On the surface does that make any sense? Of course not. What are the odds? There has to be a deeper explanation!Read more
by Ross Bishop “Only loving thoughts are true. Everything else is a cry for help.” It would take volumes just to list the research that has been done on the origins of crime and violence, beginning with two landmark studies in the 1880’s. Not only has the subject been studied exhaustively, there is general agreement as to itsRead more
Being able to love freely and openly is a great concept, but unfortunately it’s not something we experience very often. And although people do try, the love we mostly see is a pretty watered down version of the real thing. We want to love unconditionally, but we just seem unable to do it. Yet our capacity to love is incredible, so what gets in the way?
We have known for some time that violence in the home leads eventually to anti-social behavior. New research is telling us that there is another, seemingly less violent, form of trauma that has an equally devastating impact. That trauma is neglect, and its impacts can be just as devastating as physical violence.
How vulnerable are you to being criticized? No one likes being unfairly judged, but does it crumple you up inside like a ball of tin foil? Does it sit in your craw and eat at you for months, sometimes even years? And worst of all, is the brutal self-criticism we sometimes lay on ourselves!