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Category Archives: Self-awareness
How to Stop Feeling a Lack of Self-Love: A Practical Guide
Self-love is essential for a balanced life. However, many people struggle with a lack of self-love because of thoughts and behaviors that erode their self-esteem. This article aims to help you identify and change those actions and thoughts, and offers strategies to begin treating yourself with more kindness. Below we explore five key areas that …
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Myths and truths of inner peace
The search for inner peace is a common aspiration, but it is often surrounded by myths and misunderstandings. Inner peace, a deep sense of tranquility and well-being, is not always easy to achieve, and false beliefs can make it difficult to attain. In this article, we will explore five myths and truths about inner peace, …
Show empathy and service in your ministry
Besides practicing self-awareness and the ministry of presence by listening attentively to others to minister to them, regardless of our broken identity, we can show empathy. In other words, we can put ourselves in their position and at their service. If you apply these two aspects, you will be able to reach a level of …
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Self-awareness and your ministry
We have read how carrying out a ministry has become a challenge for pastors today. Let’s see how to show self-awareness in your ministry. Social networks, conflicts, and their effects on a social, psychological, and emotional level, among others, have left pastors facing unprecedented challenges, both in their inner world and the world of those …
Believe! You can rewrite your life story
As pastors, we sometimes see the necessity that you try to rewrite your life story. We face a reality that is not easy to approach, a reality that has become more complex, with unprecedented technological and social components that add more pressure, more scenarios, and more ideologies. All these elements, relatively new, represent challenges for …
How can you lead with a broken pastoral identity?
It is important to preserve a pastoral identity. Amid a crisis, how do we survive? Get up? How do we fulfill the call that God has made to us? How do I rescue my family and help my church when I am as broken as they are? We all have history, a sad one, we …
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The impact of stress on our identity
The World Health Organization (2025) reports that one in five people (22%) who have experienced war or conflict in the previous 10 years has depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. Pastors are experiencing a great amount of stress and exhaustion, and some of them are even leaving the ministry. Pastoral identity is …
Do not fall into the trap of a false identity
Today, identity is a topic found everywhere. The lack of clarity about identity, and the identity crisis that many people experience, can lead them to fall into the trap of a false identity: they pretend to be something that they are not. Satan wants you to pretend to be what you are not. He knows …
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What is identity? – Ministering with a broken identity
Let’s see an identity problem example. On August 31, 2004, at 5:00 A.M., a Burger King employee in Richmond Hill, Georgia, found Kyle unconscious, naked, and lying on the ground behind a restaurant dumpster. Kyle’s skull had several injuries from being punched. He was taken to St. Joseph’s/Candler Hospital’s Emergency Room in Savannah. He did …
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