The idea that enough pain motivates change is dangerous. While sufficient pain might prompt a person to change, it might also keep them from changing. Why?

Because pain can migrate from being an experience to becoming an identity.

Young women today are especially wrestling with this because significant and ongoing anxiety has become the "norm." While we want to bring empathy and compassion to this issue, are we promoting the very problem we want to solve by failing to bring truth?

I explore change and a specific application to the issue of anxiety in today's episode.

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Change is inevitable. It occurs by default or intention, and when it's by default, it seldom produces the benefits we hope.

Yet how does sustainable and positive change happen?

In the first episode of the mini-series on Change, I unpack three common yet harmful ideas that keep people from changing:

1. The information fallacy
2. The rock-bottom myth
3. The shame motivator

These ideas can not only limit people's ability to change but can contribute to destructive patterns in ourselves or others.

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Change is typically hard, especially when it's significant and has been tried before. While practices and techniques matter, the biggest obstacle is our mindset.

Believing change isn't possible, for us or someone else, is the #1 obstacle to growth. Whether subtle or loud, this belief packs incredible power. Today we unpack how:

• Changed minds will result in changed words and behaviors.
• The difference between destructive people and difficult people
• The danger of treating changeable character traits like permanent attributes
• Believing change is possible in others requires vulnerability

We'll examine how big of a Gospel we have by applying it to what we really believe about the possibility of change -- in ourselves and others.

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Life inevitably puts us in places of overwhelm. While we can't avoid this entirely, there are ways we can face these times with maturity.

Discover how five "R's" make a crucial difference.

• Remember
• Record
• Re-orient
• Release
• Re-energize

With both practical application and principles from the example of David in 1 Samuel, you'll be empowered to not run away from overwhelm but face it courageously.

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Sometimes the mirror of self-awareness doesn't make us look beautiful. What it reveals is ugly. That's what I experienced recently when tiny sprouts of envy kept popping up in my heart.

The solution began by choosing curiosity over shame. Rather than trying to spray these weeds with a quick prayer of repentance and then zipping on, I stopped to ask why they were growing in the first place. The answer?

My imagination had become too small. Huh?

Yep, there's a correlation between the activity of a holy imagination and the presence of envy. This examination also revealed the connection between pain and cynicism and how to be attuned to the suffering in the world without being consumed by it.

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What's one element every relationship depends on for success?

Jesus told a story illustrating this with not just one but two plot twists. The first part of his story is as delightful for us today as it was for the original audience. The second and third parts? They take some swallowing!

Grace and forgiveness received but not given leads to God's judgment and will harm or destroy every relationship. It's not a matter of if, but only when and how much.

The parable of the unforgiving servant demonstrates with clarity that acquisition of knowledge is not equal to application of truth. We are not called to be information collectors but grace givers.

See why grace and forgiveness is a must-have in every happy and successful relationship.

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BFF's (Best Friends Forever) are awesome -- and rare. We can miss great friendships in pursuit of the elusive one BFF. Instead, a new mindset about friends will open the door to building a rich and diverse community of friends. Who knows? Maybe even a BFF will come out of these relationships!

Get practical help on how to move from acquaintances to situational friends towards the inner circle of friends who you entrust with your heart.

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If a relationship doesn't have a higher purpose than itself, it won't be sustainable. If pleasure is the measurement of a successful relationship, by default that nurtures selfish people. Instead, when a relationship serves a higher purpose, fulfillment of duty becomes the measurement. Paradoxically, duty becomes a pleasure.

From King Solomon to Victor Frankl to John F. Kennedy, the importance of a mindset focused on responsibilities rather than pleasure is what sustains individuals and relationships.

Be strengthened to appreciate endurance is its form of achievement and understand why pleasure won't sustain a relationship but purpose will.

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