{"id":936,"date":"2008-06-09T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=936"},"modified":"2008-06-09T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T11:30:06","slug":"im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-doggone-it-people-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone-it, people like me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

last week, i started a bible study class at church called, “The Emotionally Intelligent Christian: Developing and Using Spirit-Controlled Emotions<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

it isn’t as weird as it sounds. <\/strong><\/p>\n

it is basically a Biblical maturity course about learning to take hold of our emotions and expressing them in a godly manner.<\/p>\n

i signed up for it because well, i am high-emotion and extremely analytical. an internal dialogue is constantly flowing – which kinda turns me into a mess. i don’t know if you know that about me. it is something i want to gain some control over. life’s too short to be all caught up in one’s head, plus not having a good hold of our emotions, isn’t spiritually healthy.<\/p>\n

anyway, during the first class there was an exercise in self-awareness. the facilitator, who know me, decided to use me as a guinea pig. he asked,<\/p>\n

“crystal, what are your strengths?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

okay, so i am generally really confident, not at all intimidated by speaking in front of people and pretty self-aware, but for some reason i had a really hard time answering that question. all stutter-y i said, “uh graphic design, connecting with women… and i don’t know, blah.” in hindsight i would have much rather have said something like, “loyalty, creativity, generosity, etc.”<\/p>\n

how about you? what are your strengths?
\ndon’t be shy, everyone has at least one.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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if you’re interested in the class, homework from the first lesson was to journal our emotions. now, i am not gonna share what i journal, because it is personal, but feel free to journal on your own. it is really interesting what you can learn.<\/p>\n

here’s the journal assignment: each day this week record one holy emotion (ie. happy, joyful) and one human emotion (ie. sad, angry). if you have a fleshy emotion, record those too.<\/p>\n

1) what was the emotion?
\n2) what triggered it?
\n3) what behaviors resulted from the emotion?
\n4) how long did the emotion last?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

last week, i started a bible study class at church called, “The Emotionally Intelligent Christian: Developing and Using Spirit-Controlled Emotions.” it isn’t as weird as it sounds. it is basically a Biblical maturity course about learning to take hold of our emotions and expressing them in a godly manner. i signed up for it because… Continue reading I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone-it, people like me!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-emotional-intelligence","category-box-of-chocolates","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}