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The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.

Bill Crawford

When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative

The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.

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