You must be well on your way to becoming whole or complete.
You must be establishing wholeness, a sense of self-worth, and a healthy self-concept.
Personal completion and finding intimacy before personal identity (21).
If you try to find intimacy with another person before achieving a sense of identity on your own, all your relationships become an attempt to complete yourself.
Relationship Lies (24)
Do not Guarantee the development of a complete self
I need this person to be complete
If this person needs me, I’ll be complete
Know the 4 steps of people who have become whole (29)
Heal the hurts
Remove the masks
Sit in the driver’s seat
Rely on God
Heal Your Hurts: Repressed Feelings (30)
Repressed feelings, especially painful ones have a high rate of resurrection.
Be aware, however, that healing your hurts is a process of painful self-exploration.
2 Take Off Your Mask: Abraham Maslow
Vulnerability builds a bridge from one person to another.
If you are ever to achieve personal wholeness, it will be because you have the courage to drop your guard, take off your mask, and be real.
3 Relying on God: Personal Significance (39-40)
Personal Significance is a real as any physical need we ever experience, and we will do almost anything to get this met.
We look for this in people, but they will ultimately fail. A relationship with God can be counted on to genuinely and fully meet our deepest need for significance. Chapter 2 4 Know the Three R’s (49)
The rules they reinforced
The roles they asked you to play
The relationships they modelled.
5 Unspoken family Rules (49-52)
Outside the conscious awareness of every family member.
Examples:
Don’t reveal your true feelings.
Never hide your emotions.
Always get your point across.
Never raise your voice.
Do everything you can to win an argument.
Compromise whenever you can.
Trust others only after