by Deborah Cox | Mar 10, 2018 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Feel Better, following inspiration, Relational Cultural Theory, Therapy, Women
Here’s a story about being inspired and suppressing it. This morning I got behind a slow-moving Buick on a major thoroughfare. I encountered the same dark green Buick, ten minutes before, when I was crossing a downtown street. On foot, I got up close and looked...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 13, 2016 | Mood
Spiritual abuse includes any kind of religious teaching or practice that diminishes your human rights, isolates you from the wider world, or systematically places you in positions of low power. I modeled these affirmations for healing spiritual abuse on those...
by Deborah Cox | Aug 1, 2016 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Create Art, Write and Heal
Toxic Faith & Political Abuse Spiritual practice should calm and ground you – so you feel hopeful, refreshed, more generous, and more compassionate. Religion and philosophy should promote ever-increasing access to your wise mind or Higher Self. But some...
by Deborah Cox | Jul 25, 2016 | Mood
How do I know if I’m in an abusive church? Religious abuse keeps us quiet because of the beliefs that support it. In fact, if you have difficulty with your faith tradition or your church, you probably think it’s YOU with the problem – not the spiritual guidance...
by Deborah Cox | Jul 18, 2016 | Mood
I have shunned and been shunned. What leads me to turn my back? Repeated bullying or toxic behavior that takes a mental or physical toll. Abuse toward me or others, without acknowledgement of impact. It makes me sad, but out of self-preservation, I’ve sometimes...
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