#013 What Do Food, Sex, and Your Parents All Have in Common?

The most important people in your life are your parents. Your relationship with mom and dad has unexpected consequences. Whether they are dead or alive, if you see them daily or hardly at all, if you’re close or estranged, you can overcome any bad habit, vice or fixation with substances with this one approach to dealing with them. Before you call mom tonight, listen to this. Powerful.

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Have You Forgiven Your Parents? Probably Not

Dead or alive, lovable or despicable, if a parent can still make you angry, then you have not forgiven them. Until you can look to see how you’ve hated your parents in the past and allow forgiveness to enter, meaning to stop hating your parents in the present, and remain unstirred, then you cannot live long or…

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What Your Parents Did

Anger toward a parent is how the seed is sown. It is the moment of the initial invasion and no one, not a single human being who has ever lived, will live, or who lives today can avoid it (with two historical exceptions) Nor can any of us live peacefully until we forgive our parents.…

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The “Let It Go” Paradox

You’ve heard it before. Advice to the emotionally beleaguered. “Let it go,” they say. “Let God.” That sounds great. It is great. But also, it presumes a person knows just how to do that. Spiritual pundits are great that way. They tell you what to do, and are frequently correct. But hardly ever do they…

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