Category: Wounds

• Waiting on Your Mate to Change? And WW Linkup

  

  Are you feeling like you’re tired of beating your head against a wall because your mate never changes? Does your spouse continue to deny the glaring issues that you see in his or her character and choices? Do you fear that if your mate doesn’t wake up soon your love and marriage may not survive?…

  BethSteffaniak

  August 25, 2015

  Accountability, Attitude, Blaming, Boundaries, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Confessional Culture, Discouragement, Expectations, Faith in God, Fear, God’s Redemption, Perseverance, Perspective, Plank Hunt Series, Positive Focus, Realistic Expectations, Redemption, Responsibility, Self-Reflection, Toxic Baggage, Victim Mentality, Vulnerability, Wedded Wednesday, Wounds

  Choices, Christ-centered, Confessional Culture, Denial, Proactive, Self-examination, Self-Reflection

• Covering for My Spouse and WW Linkup

  

  I think there’s just something in the DNA of every human being that tries to cover up vulnerabilities and weaknesses that we see in ourselves. Believe me, I know what I’m talking about, because that describes me much more than I’d like to admit! However, I think this pattern started way back in the Garden…

  BethSteffaniak

  June 30, 2015

  Acceptance, Anger, Attitude, Blaming, Choices, Christ-Centered, Confession, Confessional Culture, Confrontation, Faith in God, Forgiveness, Grace, Jesus’ Sacrifice, Love of God, Negative Self-Talk, Perseverance, Perspective, Positive Focus, Self-Protection, Self-sacrifice, Shame, Vulnerability, Wedded Wednesday, Wounds

  Blame, Forgiveness, Positive Focus, Shame, Vulnerability

• When Your Apology is Used Against You – And WW Linkup!

  

  It’s never easy to make yourself vulnerable nor to lay your heart out on the table in a sincere and humble apology before the one person on earth who matters most—your spouse. But what’s worse is when your spouse uses your apology against you. Typically, a spouse won’t do this unless: Your spouse simply got…

  BethSteffaniak

  June 9, 2015

  Acceptance, Anger, Apologies, Blaming, Christ-Centered, Comfort, Communication, Confession, Confessional Culture, Conflict, Discouragement, Faith in God, God’s Redemption, Grace, Humility, Love of God, Perseverance, Realistic Expectations, Redemption, Resentments, Trust, Vulnerability, Wedded Wednesday, Wounds

  Apologies, Conflict, Perseverance, Resentments, Trust God, Wounds

• 3 Reasons I Did Not Confess to My Mate And WW Linkup!

  

  There are many reasons why I didn’t confess my faults and sins to my husband in the early days of my marriage, but three of them stand out more than some of the others. I thought that confessing “I was wrong” about something to my husband was the equivalent of handing him the keys to…

  BethSteffaniak

  April 7, 2015

  About Me, Apologies, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Communication, Confession, Confessional Culture, Conflict, False Beliefs, Grace, Negative Self-Talk, Pride, Responsibility, Self-Protection, Victim Mentality, Vulnerability, Wedded Wednesday, Wounds

  Apologies, Confession, False Beliefs, Faults, Responsibility, Vulnerability

• Feeling like a victim in a hopeless marriage? SJT Video

  

  Sometimes a common dynamic or mindset develops when a marriage has been in crisis for a extended period of time. Click on the video below to find out what that mindset is in Beth’s latest “Sloppy Joe Time” – “Why won’t ‘you’ change?”   What have been some of the lies you’ve embraced when you’ve…

  BethSteffaniak

  March 8, 2015

  Alienation, Attitude, Avoidance, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Confrontation, Control, Criticism, Discouragement, False Beliefs, Positive Focus, Realistic Expectations, Sloppy Joe Time Video, Trials, Victim Mentality, Video, Withdrawal, Wounds

  Conflict, Control, Victim Mentality, Video, Withdrawal, Wounds

• ‘Broken Together’ Video

  

  I’m going to try and scale back here in order to spend a bit more time working on several book projects I have in the works. So I will be sharing my SJT videos every other week instead of weekly. But on the weeks that I discover a video that’s worth sharing, I’ll be sharing…

  BethSteffaniak

  March 1, 2015

  Bonding, Choices, Christ-Centered, Faith in God, God’s Redemption, Humility, Love for God, Love of God, Oneness, Pain, Perseverance, Redemption, Support, Surrender, Toxic Baggage, Trials, Trust, Unity, Video, Vulnerability, Wounds

  Bonding, Brokenness, Casting Crowns, God’s Love, Imperfect, Redemption, Vulnerability, Wounds