This category houses all the different issues that one may deal with when it comes to trauma, and also tackles how you can be empowered yourself.
At first, you thought it was just you. Maybe you were overthinking what was said and done. Then, you realized you were betrayed by an alleged friend who turned out to be a narcissist. Listen in. #love #freedom #relationship
It’s hard to enforce the concept of boundaries when you face losing the people, places, things, and ideas you love. It’s even harder to remain without them. Boundaries teach us a lot. The lesson starts with ourselves. Listen in. #freedom #love #relationship The Valley of Grace Song is licensed for permission to be used by Katina Horton-Valley of Grace Ministries by the composer and performing artist Timothy Horton THGR8.
Hello family!!! Today I am featuring an article with quick tips from Guest Blogger and Wellness Advocate Dorothy Watson. Enjoy, and remember: You are already enough!!!!
Here is her bio:
Dorothy Watson grew up with a single mother who wasn’t properly diagnosed with bipolar disorder for over a decade. In her mother’s honor, she created Mental Wellness Center to support those who are working toward improving their mental health.
It’s a universal desire to want to start fresh and make a new beginning. It’s the theme of movies
and books, it’s our history and what makes us human. And the beauty of it is this: we can do it,
each in our own way.
Though your journey will be your own, there are some things that are universal that we all can
do to reset and come back anew. Today, I want to share some tips and ideas that might
just help you find your way to the new and improved you.
You may be unhappy with how you look or feel, but that is something you can definitely do
something about. You know the expression “you are what you eat”?
Studies cited by 24Life.com show that people who eat a variety of food are healthier, live longer, and have a reduced risk of diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Food variety means including foods
such as fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, meat, fish, seafood, nuts and seeds, and dairy
products.
And of course, you’ve heard about working out, and it can be easier than you think.
Exercise doesn’t have to mean purchasing a lot of home fitness products or high-priced gym
memberships. Walking 10,000 steps per day costs nothing and can boost your energy, aid
relaxation and clear your mind, help manage your weight, promote healthier blood cholesterol
and blood pressure, build stronger bones and muscles and reduce your risk of a heart attack.
Navigating through the winter months can be challenging, especially when the days are shorter
and colder. However, maintaining a positive outlook during this season is essential for
embracing new beginnings and staying motivated. One effective strategy is to engage in
networking, whether it’s for professional growth or personal enrichment. Connecting with others
can provide a sense of community and shared experiences, which is particularly valuable during
the isolating winter months.
Staying active is also crucial; regular physical activity, whether it’s indoor exercise or winter
sports, can boost your mood and energy levels.
Additionally, making the most of daylight hours is vital. Whenever possible, get outdoors during the brighter parts of the day. Exposure to natural light can significantly improve your mood and help combat the winter blues.
By combining networking, staying active, and maximizing daylight exposure, you can maintain a
positive and proactive attitude, even through the colder, darker months.
One of the best parts of social media is our ability to stay connected, share our successes, and
inspire others. Sometimes you know the lives you may have changed, but many times you
don’t. So stay positive, be inspiring, continue to grow and thrive and take your friends and loved
ones with you on your journey.
Whether you’re focusing on well-being, staying positive, or getting healthy and inspiring others on social media, loving who you are for what you are can be the fresh new start you’ve been searching for.
At Valley of Grace, our mission is to help women in toxic relationships regain clarity on
love and freedom, release control, break soul-ties and unhealthy relationship patterns,
build resilience and flourish, and reclaim their power, SOUL, and identity, so they will
know they are enough.
We hear the term control freak all the time. What we don’t hear about is the bondage that this spirit/addiction brings you. It interrupts the natural order of how you relate to yourself, others, and God by keeping you in a constant state of rules, bondage, reinforcement, and micromanagement. #control #controlfreak #addiction
We all have issues with power management. However, intense lack of power management leads to intense lack of control management. When we lust for control, insecurity sets in, and then we’re headed for the spirit of individual, collective, and or cultural narcissism. #love #freedom #relationships
When people have information on us, they use that information as bait to trap us. Listen in. #love #freedom #relationship
When power is regulated well, we work as a team. When power is dysregulated, we work as enemies, fighting for power and control at all costs. But what happens when position, role, and authority is used as a weapon for power and control? Which side will you sit on? Let’s talk about it. #love #freedom #relationship
One of the main reasons that women don’t heal properly is that they do not like the idea of being alone. Alone with themselves. Alone with their thoughts. Alone with God. Alone with nature. Alone with their bodies. Being alone has a stigma associated with it. “Oh, looky, she doesn’t have a man. What’s wrong with her?”
However, being alone is just what is needed in order for us to move from point A to point B and get to our destination. That destination is the Promised Land of Canaan that God has for each one of us individually and collectively.
What we often don’t realize is that being alone and being lonely is two different things. We are never truly alone because God is always with us. We can be with a group of people and still be lonely. But why? For Several reasons. The first reason is that we may have failed to deal with the emotional loneliness that we experienced in childhood from our family’s love story garden. People were present but unavailable for a variety of reasons, leaving us anxious and clawing for attention from everyone and everything but God. We made mini-gods of people, places, things, and ideas to feed our addictions.
Secondly, when we fail to exhibit vulnerability by sharing our struggles, we don’t get the support that we need to make it through. We take on the role of being everybody else’s savior instead of gaining the true and loving support that we need.
Healing is hard but necessary to gain an adequate assessment of who we really are according to how God created us, not who others have told us according to how they want us to be. This process is called developing our self-concept. Our self-concept gets marred by emotionally immature, narcissistic, and other individuals who have become bitter and resentful about their lives and need someone else to dump their projection and confusion on.
Healing is hard but it’s worth it. Just like getting all the rain in spring enables beautiful flowers to appear, we all become the beautiful flowering trees that God created us to be in the Garden of Eden.
You are enough. Reclaim your power, soul, and identity. Grab your keys to the kingdom and get your inheritance.
Until next time,
Katina
When power is regulated well, we work as a team. When power is dysregulated, we work as enemies, fighting for power and control at all costs. But what happens when food is used as a weapon for power and control? Which side will you sit on? Let’s talk about it. #love #freedom #relationship
It’s easy to spot abuse from an overt person. But how do you recognize the more covert, subtle forms of abuse that we often experience. You often shrug it off as a trigger. Nine times out of ten, it’s not. Don’t ignore your intuition. #love #freedom #relationships