Are you harder on yourself than you are on other people? Does your inner critic sometimes win the battle? Do you find yourself shutting down in certain situations? Does your body sometimes seem to have a mind of its own? Hear what Pastor Margaret has to say about our negative behavior patterns and a tool she uses that can help us all learn how to be kinder to ourselves.
Compassion Fatigue
In a world with a 24-hour news cycle, we need only glance at the screens in the palms of our hands to be bombarded with the latest catastrophe. All of it can feel like a constant, overwhelming onslaught of soul-crushing information. We’re often tempted to take to our beds, pull the covers over our heads, and shout, “World, go away!” But we can’t, can we? As Christians, we cannot put our proverbial “heads in the sand.” Read on to be assured as to why, and how we “can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.”