by Jonathan Gould | Identity, Recovery, Relationship, Spirituality, Sunday |
How can we truely recover our ‘Self Control’? Acquiring mastery over ourselves (self control) is a process. Apart from the gym, a glowing way to see the acquisition of mastery is in the area of musicianship. How does a person just get up and play the piano?...
by Jonathan Gould | Identity, Relationship, Spirituality |
I’ve found it helpful to re-read about and ponder the origins of our sense of personal identity. How is identity formed in the ideal – and also less than ideal – situations? It’s also been helpful for me to understand again the far...
by Jonathan Gould | Identity, Relationship, Spirituality |
The topic of Identity is vast. So vast in fact, I have borked at writing anything about it all. Yet, annoyingly, I know it’s and issue that touches us all – whether we know it or not. I also know I care about the topic – and that I have ‘some’...
by Jonathan Gould | Boundaries, Conversation, Identity, Recovery, Relationship, Spirituality, Sunday |
Matthew 28 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it....
by Jonathan Gould | Active Listening, Conversation, Relationship, Sunday |
Listening 6 – Active Listening <> The ‘pièce de résistance’ of Listening (for pronunciation… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_7Rl7BUfh4) There is a form of listening called ‘Active Listening’. On the listening skill menu, ‘Active...
by Jonathan Gould | Conversation, Relationship, Sunday |
The way Home So, here’s another story from us. … I was making the odd response noises. We were driving home from an outing. Libby was talking to me about a few things. There was a pause and she said …” are you listening to me?” At that...