Ways of Being: Life Coaching to Heal Your Life!
Marlene Shiple, Ph.D. The Life Coach Dr.: Heal Your Past + Heal Your Thoughts + Heal Your Self => Heal Your Life!

Jan

24

Positive Thinking: Positive Associates

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How important are your surroundings to your Positive Mindset and Positive Attitude?  How much are you affected by those around you? Think about how you feel when you spend extended time with someone who is despondent and emotionally down and/or speaks negatively and/or criticizes everyone and everything and/or complains a lot How do you end […]

Jan

15

Positive Thinking: Boost Confidence

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To continue our focus to reduce negative thinking, the following technique is unbeatable! Remember that your subconscious mind is actively working to create that which you are thinking.  Hence, by the kinds of thoughts you think, you directly create the outcomes you experience in your life. Today’s direction targets those thoughts that you choose to […]

Oct

15

Forgiveness Journal: Record Your Forgiveness Journey

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Keeping a Forgiveness journal as a helpful tool while on your Forgiveness journey. There are a lot of advantages to journaling. If you’ve kept a diary in the past, you may be familiar with some of them. If you haven’t tried it yet, I seriously encourage you to give it a try. It can be […]

Oct

2

Forgiveness: Forgiving Yourself

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So far, in these blog posts, we’ve talked a lot about forgiving others. There’s one very important person we’ve not talked about yet – and that’s you. It’s about time we take a closer look at forgiving yourself, what it means, why it’s so difficult, and why it is important. Forgiving yourself is often harder […]

Sep

15

Forgiveness: Time to Take Back Control by Forgiving

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It can be easy to play the victim, don’t you think? It’s much easier to play the damsel in distress, or the one who was done wrong. It makes us feel righteous and allows us to hold on to our grudges. For many of us, playing the victim is our default reaction whenever something bad […]

Sep

5

Forgiveness: The Freeing Feeling of Forgiveness

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I want to share a very powerful quote with you today. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.                                                                                                          ~Lewis B. Smedes This one little quote contains the key to why forgiveness is so important to finding happiness. What you’ll find out once you start practicing forgiveness […]

Aug

31

Forgiveness: Forgiveness, Power and Entitlement

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Something interesting happens when we feel that someone has done us wrong and we choose to hold on to a grudge because of it. I’m not saying it’s good. In fact, it isn’t, but the reaction, and the story we tell ourselves, is interesting. Here’s what usually happens: Someone does you a wrong. It doesn’t […]

Aug

22

Forgiveness: The Connection Between Forgiveness & Depression

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In yesterday’s post we briefly went over some of the negative things associated with ignoring forgiveness. Today, I want to dig a little deeper and take a look at the connection between forgiveness and depression. There are actually two sides to this story: One involves forgiving, or choosing to hold on to a grudge; and […]

Aug

17

Forgiveness: Forgiveness Is Important!

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The act of forgiveness is something important — something of which to strive to do more.  Not only is it a kindness, but it is also a very important act for both the person doing the forgiving and for the one receiving it. The simple process of forgiving is very freeing. It allows us to […]

Aug

14

Forgiveness: What Forgiveness Isn’t

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In our last post, I shared thoughts about exactly what forgiveness is and what it means. Today, I want to take a little bit of time to look at what forgiveness isn’t and what it doesn’t mean. There are a number of common misconceptions when it comes to forgiveness.   It’s important to clear some […]

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