emotional maturity

Perfect Love Prevents Fear

Jun 22, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in appreciation, Development, emotional maturity, feelings, grief, happiness, mindfulness, self-awareness, Spiritual

In one of the later books of the New Testament, the writer and apostle, John, states this: “There is no fear I love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love” (1 John 4.18, New International Version). Other versions of…
The Challenges of Honesty, Openness, and Truth

May 31, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in communication, Development, emotional maturity, feelings, mindfulness, Personality, relationships, self-awareness, social esteem, Spiritual

I am no philosopher, but like all people, I delve into the medium and art of philosophy unavoidably as we all do. I am certain that philosophes could be bemused by my meanderings in their territory with my minimal training and understanding of such things. I am often bemused by people meandering into the realm…
Crazy is Contagious

Jan 15, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in communication, emotional maturity, feelings, mindfulness, political, relationships, self-awareness

I heard the statement, “crazy is contagious” from a colleague of mine when I told him about an experience I had recently had with a patient. It got me thinking. “Crazy” is not by any means a part of my vocabulary, nor are other typical terms when we think of the challenges that people have…
Life’s Issues and Challenges: It’s All about Trauma

Jan 10, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in emotional maturity, feelings, Opportunity, Spiritual

A colleague, Jackie, recently told me about an experience she had had with an attorney. This colleague does quite a bit of family therapy and has a long history of having been involved in families that are usually quite dysfunctional. “Dysfunctional” is not one of my favorite words, but it means that the adults in…
Patience

Dec 29, 2020

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Ron Johnson

in appreciation, emotional maturity, feelings, mindfulness, self-awareness, Spiritual

I am not, by nature, a very patient person, which means that I tend to jump before I think and talk before I think. However, this lack of “thinking” is not the real essence of patience. Patience is much about feeling. If you have followed our recent blogs, specifically over the past year, you have…
Dealing Effectively with Challenges: The Four A’s

Dec 21, 2020

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Ron Johnson

in Development, emotional maturity, feelings, grief, happiness, mindfulness, self-awareness

We can effectively meet the challenges of the day, of the year, or of one’s life. Likewise, there are four ineffective ways of facing the challenges of life, which are Avoidance Anxiety Anger Accommodation I will briefly describe each of these ways that people frequently deal with the challenges they face in their…
Different Kinds of “I’m Sorry”

Nov 16, 2020

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Ron Johnson

in appreciation, communication, emotional maturity, feelings, grief, relationships, self-awareness, social esteem, Spiritual

“I’m sorry:” a very important statement. Very, very important. Most people should be able to express these words at least once a day, and possibly several times a day. But what does “I’m sorry” mean, or more accurately what can it mean? For some reason “I’m sorry” has fallen into disuse in America, and perhaps…
It’s The War

Sep 14, 2020

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Ron Johnson

in appreciation, emotional maturity, feelings, mindfulness, political, self-awareness, Spiritual

Deb and I really enjoy Masterpiece Theater, which comes on PBS pretty regularly. Actually, we don’t watch any other channels aside from the three PBS channels we get over the air. We’ve had “air only” TV forever. Occasionally, however, when we happen to be in a motel where there are 600 cable channels, we waste…
The H’end of the Road

Sep 3, 2020

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Ron Johnson

in Development, emotional maturity, feelings, happiness, Opportunity, self-awareness, Spiritual

This is actually an interlude from my previous and forthcoming blogs on “the end of” series. There is a similarity to the “end of” to this blog, but it is a different twist.I’m going to have a little fun before I get to the meat of this blog, the essence of which I think is…
The “End of Things” I: Theory

Sep 2, 2020

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Ron Johnson

in Children, Development, Development, emotional maturity, feelings, grief, happiness, social esteem

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of blogs on what I am calling “the end of” certain things. In all of these blogs we will examine the various things, sometimes behavior, sometimes feelings, sometimes experiences, that plague humanity psychologically including: Anger Anxiety Depression Addictions (behavioral and chemical) Confusion Physical…