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Feeding a Child’s Personality and Not Their Behavior

We laugh. We comment, “Oh, he’s so cute when he does that!” Yet, when does the “cuteness” morph into a behavior and not a child’s personality? What is the difference between the two, if any? Personality is separate from a child’s behavior.   It is what makes each child unique. Their ...

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Passive Aggressiveness: When the Bully Plays the Victim

passive aggressive, manipulation, control, mind games, sociopathy, pathological behavior, dysfunctional, borderline, psychology

Remember how Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown each time he went to kick off, thus sabotaging the game? In Lucy’s mind, losing the championship was worth making her teammate look bad. This is a picture of passive-aggressive behavior, which is closely related to mind games, discussed in ...

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Mind Games: “Abstain from every form of evil”

mind games, control tactics, mass media, secret societies, passive agressive behavior, antisocial, freemasonry

A friend who comes from a family with a long legacy of generational witchcraft once said, “If someone plays mind games with you, it’s completely evil.” His cautionary advice stayed with me as I saw it played out in work situations, extended family relationships, and even the church. Over the ...

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How to Deal With Toxic Family

Families are supposed to be a place of support, love, and acceptance. Sometimes, however, family relationships can be the place where we experience the deepest hurt. Sometimes we can spend years sacrificing our mental and spiritual health in harmful relationships under the notion that we have to because “they are ...

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