I grew up in the church and I went to a Christian school until I was in the 9th grade. Several times throughout my youth and childhood I was urged to watch videos about how evil Rock and Roll is. I guess this was to make sure that I turned out OK. Some youth groups would even have parties where kids would come and smash their evil CDs.
People pleasers are people that always do everything possible to please others around them. I think we all have a little bit of this in us, I know I certainly do. On the surface is seems like a pretty harmless quality, but it can actually be a really big problem.
Have you ever felt like your life is a balancing act? Like you’re walking a tightrope? Maybe you feel like so many things are building up on top of you like email, cell phones, voice mail, snail mail, boss, wife, kids, friends…and at any moment you are going to topple.
You do enough for your kids already so you shouldn’t have to be bother with telling them that you love them. Who needs to be told that they are loved anyway, especially not kids. We need to teach them that this is a tough cold world and the best place to start that is at home.
Often times in life we walk around with a soundtrack playing in the back of our mind. The phrase that is stuck on repeat is “You’re not good enough.” We listen to this over and over and we get sad and depressed and start to agree with it. The problem is that it’s true!
