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- Christian Relationship Help: How Anxiety In Difficult Relationships Contributes To The Dysfunction
By:-Karla Downing
Are you looking for Christian relationship help to enable you to understand how anxiety in difficult relationships contributes to the dysfunction? Then this article will help you by showing you how people either overreact or under-react to anxiety and how to calm the anxiety which will decrease rather than increase the dysfunction.
- Setting Boundaries With Your Difficult Adult Child Who Has A Mental Illness
By:-Karla Downing
Are you wondering how to set boundaries with your difficult adult child who has a mental illness? It is hard to have adult children that make poor choices that cause problems in their lives and in their parents' lives; it is even more difficult to have adult children who have mental illnesses that contribute to those choices. As a result, you may be inclined to "help" too much. Here are four questions to answer that will enable you to figure out what your boundaries should be.
- Boundaries With Adult Children: Lessons From The Prodigal Son
By:-Karla Downing
Are you looking for help on how to set boundaries with your adult children? The story of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15:11-32 gives very valuable lessons that you can apply to your prodigal child.
- Dysfunctional Family Christmas: The Serenity Prayer For The Holidays
By:-Karla Downing
Dysfunctional family Christmas' can be difficult. Holidays bring up memories of hurts, loss, pain, and bad times. Holidays also come with expectations for the perfect loving moments with family. If you have a difficult relationship, the holidays will force you to deal with that relationship in some way. Applying the Serenity Prayer to your holidays will bring you peace and allow you to deal with whatever relational difficulties you are dealing with.
- Dysfunctional Family Christmas: Let Go Of All Your Expectations
By:-Karla Downing
Are you dealing with a dysfunctional family Christmas? Then, manage it by letting go of all your expectations. Expectations get us in trouble in dysfunctional families, because they set us up for disappointment. The disappointment leads to anger and resentment, which then upsets our emotional serenity. Learn how to let go of your expectations.
- Christian Codependency: Understanding Powerlessness In Your Difficult Relationships
By:-Karla Downing
Are you struggling with Christian codependency? How much time and energy do you spend trying to change your difficult loved one?Are you confused about what it means to be powerless in your difficult relationships? This article will help you understand the importance of powerlessness in your relationships.
- Christian Relationship Help: Four Ways To Prevent Escalating An Argument
By:-Karla Downing
Are you looking for Christian relationship help that enables you to handle conflict differently? When someone starts an argument, the most common thing people do is to respond in ways that escalate the situation. Proverbs 15:1 says, "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (NIV). Here are four ways you can put that advice into action and prevent escalating the argument...
- Christian Codependency: How Do You React To Circumstances You Don't Like?
By:-Karla Downing
One of the characteristics of a Christian codependent is a desire to have things your way. How do you react when circumstances aren't what you want? When things don't go your way, are you...
- Christian Marriage Help: Give Up Being A Martyr Or Victim
By:-Karla Downing
Are you looking for Christian marriage help for your difficult marriage? When you are stuck in a difficult marriage with overwhelming problems, it is easy to become a victim or a martyr. You can't change your life when you don't even accept that you have the power or right to change it.
- Christian Codependency: Four Things To Do To Stop Triangulating In Your Relationships
By:-Karla Downing
If you are looking for help with your Christian codependency, this article will help you by providing four things to do to stop triangulating in your relationships. You triangulate when you enter into a relationship dynamic between two other people in an attempt to fix the problem. Here are some things you may do that are triangulating...
- Christian Relationship Help: Answers To Questions About Dealing With Alcoholism
By:-Karla Downing
This Christian relationship help gives you answers to questions about dealing with alcoholism. There are many dilemmas you deal with when someone you care about that drinks too much. Here are the answers to the questions...
- Christian Relationship Help: How To Deal With A Narcissist
By:-Karla Downing
This Christian relationship help will offer you ideas on how to deal with a narcissist. The belief that you have to put others before yourself, forgive, give, and love can be exploited by a narcissist who refuses to consider your needs as equally important and wants you to give in to his/her many demands. Narcissists have many of the characteristics described in 2 Timothy 3:2-5: lovers of self, greedy, proud, boastful, abusive, ungrateful, unforgiving, without love, rash, conceited, and lovers of pleasure.
- Christian Relationship Help: Are You Dealing With A Passive Aggressive Person?
By:-Karla Downing
This Christian relationship help will enable you to identify whether or not you are dealing with a passive aggressive person. Passive aggressive behavior is more difficult to identify than aggressive behavior, unless you know what you are looking for. What is passive-aggressive behavior?
- Christian Relationship Help: Actions Matter More Than Words In Your Difficult Relationship
By:-Karla Downing
This Christian relationship help will show you that actions matter more than words in your difficult relationship. Difficult relationships are with difficult people and difficult people tend to say one thing but do something else. It is confusing when someone's actions don't match the words, but for some reason, people tend to believe the words instead of the actions.
- Christian Relationship Help: Four Ways To Respond To Passive Aggressive Behavior
By:-Karla Downing
This Christian relationship help will provide you with four ways to respond to passive aggressive behavior in the people you interact with. The closer a person is to you, the more the passive aggressive behavior will be problematic. Jesus warned us to be on guard against people who will attempt to manipulate, harm, outmaneuver, and abuse us. It is important that you recognize what you are dealing with and respond to it in a way that is healthy for you and the relationship.
- Christian Relationship Help: Why Relationships With Narcissists Are Difficult
By:-Karla Downing
This Christian relationship help will enable you to understand why relationships with narcissists are difficult. Good relationships have balance. There is give and take that attempts to meet the needs of both people (Philippians 2:4). In contrast, relationships with narcissists focus around meeting the needs of the narcissist. Here are the reasons why the relationship isn't easy...
- Christian Relationship Help: How To Apply Detachment With Love To Your Difficult Relationships
By:-Karla Downing
Regardless of what the other person does, God holds you responsible for your actions. Each of us will only give an accounting of our own words and actions. We are also responsible for how we respond to others regardless of what they do to us. Because of the complex dynamics of difficult relationships, it isn't always easy to know what the right thing to do is. The principle of detachment with love can give you guidelines for responding to difficult people.
- Christian Marriage Help: Five Signs Your Marriage Has Healthy Submission
By:-Karla Downing
Are you looking for Christian marriage help having to do with submission? Ephesians 5:22 tells wives to submit to their husbands. It sounds fairly straightforward, but there are marriages that have unhealthy submission that is damaging to the wife and the marriage relationship. Here are five signs that your marriage has healthy submission:
- Christian Relationship Help: Five Characteristics Of A Narcissist
By:-Karla Downing
This Christian relationship help will enable you to recognize five characteristics of a narcissist. Narcissism is difficult to deal with in relationships and recognizing it will enable you to respond differently to it. Jesus was constantly aware of what was in the heart of the people he dealt with. He knew when people were willing to hurt him, when people were insincere, when people were manipulating him, and when people were pretending. You need to know who you are dealing with so you can respond in a way that is wise.
- Christian Marriage Help: Boundaries With Sex For Christian Wives
By:-Karla Downing
Are you looking for Christian marriage help regarding boundaries with sex in your relationship with your husband? If you believe you can't say no, are uncomfortable with your husband's sexual requests, find yourself disliking or avoiding sex, or are upset with your husband looking at pornography, then this article will give you the answers you are looking for. Here are four boundaries you can have with sex.
- Christian Codependency: How To Recognize Burnout
By:-Karla Downing
Are you looking for Christian codependency help that will enable you to recognize burnout? "Burnout" occurs when you have pushed yourself too far for too long (usually because you believe you have no other choice and God wants you to), and as a result you find yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually, and/or relationally spent. It is important to know how to recognize burnout so you can make adjustments before there are long-term negative consequences to your ministry, job, business, body, or relationships. Here are the signs...
- Christian Codependency: Keeping The Peace In Unhealthy Ways
By:-Karla Downing
Is your Christian codependency resulting in you keeping the peace in unhealthy ways? Here is a biblical example of someone who tried to keep the peace by covering up and fixing a problem codependently and as a result, it later escalated and caused more hurt and fallout...
- Setting Boundaries With Your Adult Children The Way God Sets Boundaries With His Children
By:-Karla Downing
Christians aren't the only people who need boundaries--everyone does--but when setting boundaries, Christians want to feel assured that the choices they are making are pleasing to God and biblically based. Knowing how God sets boundaries with you as his child helps you know how to set boundaries with your adult children.
- Christian Relationship Help: What To Do With Five Common Alcoholic Dilemmas
By:-Karla Downing
This Christian relationship help will tell you what to do with five common alcoholic dilemmas. When someone you care about drinks, you naturally want to make him/her stop. Drinking isn't good for the person or your relationship. People who care about a drinker can get too caught up in rescuing, fixing, or controlling the problem and in doing so lose the ability to make wise choices for their own lives. Here are the five dilemmas...
- Christian Codependency: Things We Do When We Won't Set Boundaries
By:-Karla Downing
Christian codependency involves things codependents do when we won't set boundaries. When problems come up in relationships, we often want to make other people do what we think they should do. We do this because we think we are right; we think we know what is best; we don't want to be hurt; we don't want the other person to be hurt; or we are hurt, scared, anxious, or angry. These are the tactics we use to try to get people to do what we think they should do instead of deciding what is okay and not okay with us and simply setting a boundary.
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