November 25th, 2024
This Thanksgiving, we want you to know we are thankful for you! By allowing God to work IN you and THROUGH you, you help to make this ministry possible . We wouldn’t be able to do this without your prayers, financial support, or volunteering.
Praying you have an amazing Thanksgiving!
Jim, Kathie, John, Thea, Roberta, Devin, and Sherri
November 21st, 2024
Would you please consider joining us on “The Journey” to help make a way for others to receive emotional healing and life transformation so they can live out their God-given purpose?
We want to see more people experience the same emotional healing and life transformation you did, but that takes resources. Our goal is to raise an additional $125,000 by the end of the year and recruit an additional 25 monthly donors. We realize these are big goals but with your help we are confident we can get there.
Your partnership will pave the way for others. No amount is too small, whether it is a $5 or $500 monthly gift, or a one-time gift of any amount, it all makes a difference. You can donate by simply clicking the DONATE button below, by going to www.theultimatejourney.org and clicking on the DONATE tab or by mailing a check to Christ-Life Ministires at P.O. Box 3841, Des Moines, IA 50323.
If you prefer to donate stock or other assets, or have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me directly, jim@theultimatejourney.org. Thank you for partnering with us.
We are so grateful for you!
November 21st, 2024
The idea of getting together with family for the holidays can bring joy and excitement or, in some cases, lots of anxiety and stress. Whatever you are feeling, here are a few suggestions that might help you navigate some of those feelings that pop up or some of those family members that pop in. While we have sent out these helpful suggestions in the past, we learned in Phase 3 that in order to implement new patterns in our lives, we all need repetition, repetition, repetition. So here are a few tools to help you navigate the upcoming holidays.
1. This Year, Take Your Adult Ally With You!
Are you making plans to reconnect with family over the upcoming holidays? If you are, remember, the hardest place to not fall back into old childhood patterns is with your family. Whether it is shame, pain, rejection, unforgiveness, anger, having to be the responsible one, or just plain not feeling good enough, those old mental patterns you worked so hard to replace can come flooding back. But you don’t have to face it alone! This year, make plans to take your Adult Ally with you. Of course, now that you are an adult, your brain only listens to you. That means, Your Adult Ally Is You! We are once again making our Allying Yourself Handbook available to you for FREE.
Just because you are getting together with family, it doesn’t mean you have to revert back to your old childhood patterns and conform back into the old family system. Instead, when you feel yourself being pulled back into that old pattern, you can choose to respond with TACT.
1) Identify what is Triggering you.
2) Acknowledge and accept any feelings you are having.
3) Comfort yourself by paying attention to what you need to hear from yourself as the ally.
4) Talk Truth to yourself by identifying the messages/lies you are believing regarding the situation and then replacing them with the truth.
Want more details on how to do this? Click here for a free download of our Allying Yourself Handbook.
2. Having trouble forgiving someone? Maybe these articles will help.
Do You Need to Change Your Glasses?
Forgiveness Comes in One Big Package
Forgiveness: No Longer a Slave to the Past
Forgiveness Isn’t Going Back to the Way Things Were
Does Someone Have to Ask for Forgiveness Before I Forgive Them?
3. For healthy suggestions on how you can respond to The Advice Giver, The Critic, The Rager, The Braggart, The Black Sheep, The Alcoholic, The Downer, and The Controller, click here.