keep moving forward

You may not be able to prevent certain losses in your life. To devalue yourself for that which is beyond your control is unhealthy and unproductive. Unexpected losses are beyond anyone’s ability to be prepared for, and feeling powerless in relation to not being prepared for them is normal. At the same time, being powerless to be prepared doesn’t mean you are without the power to process pain and keep moving forward.

Dr Mark Chironna

Possibility thinking

When living with a sense of possibility there’s an expansion that takes place within and without. You discover that you’re more willing to step out on the living edge and dare to believe that you can do all things. 

The root of the sense of possibility is faith; what energizes it at the core is love that begins as desire. When love flows from the core of your being, things expand over your life, just like the heavens. Dr Mark Chironna

Healthy venting

There are moments in life when you need to vent. Venting is different than dumping. When you dump you blame others for where you are. When you vent, you share your feelings in a context with someone who deeply listens to your current emotional state, empathizing with your pressing concerns. Healthy venting enables you to de-clutter, and clear out your heart and mind of psychological debris and spiritual toxic waste.

Dr Mark Chironna

disappointments in life

Rack up enough relational disappointments in life from childhood into adulthood and you put up walls of great caution in trusting others. Especially when those who betrayed you were telling you they loved you, revealing they were never really there for you. Past history with trust governs present relationships. When trust is broken, a relational wound results. The fruit of broken trust is not mistrust; it is despair.

Dr Mark Chironna

Intentions

When you’re intentional about succeeding in your purpose you become exceedingly aware that obtaining your desired outcome never happens overnight, it happens over time. All things are made appropriate and beautiful in their proper timing. Always remember that if it’s something worth enjoying, the process and the perseverance required are worth enduring. Compromise results in settling for less and crying out for more.

Dr Mark Chironna

faith on trial

When battling for a prolonged time through an extended season of testing, facing obstacles that want to undermine your progress and impede your steps, insecurity and fear will demand your attention. Pay them no mind. Don’t detach, distrust, or isolate yourself. Your faith is on trial. Hold fast your confidence. Act “as if” you’re strongest when feeling weakest. At the end of this period there will be no lack or loss.

Dr Mark Chironna

opportunities for growth

Stressful situations can demotivate you if you let them. 

However, you can choose to see them as opportunities for growth 

that will cause you to get to the core of what needs to be addressed. 

You can then put your best foot forward. 

Make that choice and you then unleash the sleeping giant of your potential in unexpected ways, creating a pathway to open doors that will provide you with the opportunities to dream again.

Dr Mark Chironna

An attitude of confidence

An attitude of confidence is essential for overcoming resistance, facing obstacles, conquering those things that threaten to thwart your progress, and succeeding in accomplishing your goals. 

To be confident you have to talk to yourself in a confident way and carry yourself in a manner that exudes faith. 

Confidence will make you calm and poised, not puffed up and proud. 

The arrogant aren’t confident; they’re deceived.

Let light shine on your anxieties

The power of anxiety profoundly affects the mind, causing great suffering. 

It holds one captive to darkness for extended periods, 

even if one affirms and declares they are free. 

Its roots run deep in the soil of one’s past, anchored in unconscious fears 

that have never been faced. 

Fight it and it gains power.

 Let light shine on it and a door to freedom opens 

exposing hidden fears that prevent being perfected in love.

Dr Mark Chironna