Just got back from what was supposed to be a 3-day weekend in Vegas… It ended up being a 5 day weekend! We couldn’t get a flight out to save our lives. I thought I was in groundhog day! Everyday we’d get up before dawn, hail our taxi and off …
Stockholm Syndrome: What is it? Wikipedia defines it this way: “A paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims”. This term came about in 1973 in Sweden when two bank …
Ok, I love Joyce Meyer….so I was listening to a CD on my walk today when I hear her say, “I was abused as a child and I just had to CHOOSE to get over it”….This is the kind of verbage which I often hear in Christian circles that makes …
There is an excellent little one page Al-Anon pamphlet entitled “Detachment”…. I don’t know where the “With Love” part came from, but I know I’ve heard the phrase in Al-Anon. It sounds great, but what exactly does it mean. Basically, Detachment means putting the focus on taking care of ourselves. …
This word has been in popular use for at least 20 years but there’s still no clear-cut definnition… Many people think it means being “dependent”, but it really doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with being a dependent person. While looking it up I found this definition in the Alcohol …
