Goal: To develop Emotional Healthy Adult Mode behaviors due to your connection with a loving God.      Your Emotions are biological, physiological, and psychological messengers that are “hard-wired” into your being and are gifts from God in that they help you to experience a range of emotions such as happiness, anger, joy, fear, surprise, disgust, shame, … More Emotional #10: Your Emotional Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 1 – A Loving God)

Download a printer-friendly PDF of the Triple A’s of Loving Yourself and the Triple P’s of Loving Your Neighbor the-triple-as-and-ps-of-loving-yourself-and-your-neighbor-by-dr.-ken-mcgill-2023 Use this quick-reference chart to prepare your mind to create then employ the best cognitive (and spiritual and emotional) strategies to generate peace and passion with those you love. As mentioned in previous posts, give … More The Triple P’s of Loving Others: PREPARE, PEACE and PASSION by Dr. Ken McGill 

Download a printer-friendly PDF of the Triple A’s of Loving Yourself and the Triple P’s of Loving Your Neighbor the-triple-as-and-ps-of-loving-yourself-and-your-neighbor-by-dr.-ken-mcgill-2023 Use this quick-reference chart to reflect on areas of your life that deserve your assessment (to change), attention (to heal), and energy to create internal and eventually interpersonal attunement (to grow). As mentioned in previous … More The Triple A’s of Loving Yourself: ASSESS, ATTEND and ATTUNE by Dr. Ken McGill

Goal: To develop Cognitive Healthy Adult Mode behaviors that demonstrate you’re Loving Your Neighbor. This has to be one of the most important entries in the Healthy Adult Mode series, and allow me to share why I’ve reached this conclusion.  Most human beings are relational beings, and as such we’d like to experience various types of … More Cognitive #12: Your Cognitive Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 3 – Loving Your Neighbor)

Goal: To develop Cognitive Healthy Adult Mode behaviors that demonstrate you’re Loving Yourself “The concept of differentiation has to do with self and not with others.  Differentiation deals with working on one’s own self, with becoming a more responsible person, and permitting others to be themselves” – Murray Bowen (Family Therapy in Clinical Practice, p. 468). One … More Cognitive #11: Your Cognitive Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 2 – Loving Yourself)

Goal: To develop Cognitive Healthy Adult Mode behaviors due to your connection with a loving God “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better.  I pray also that the eyes of your heart may … More Cognitive #10: Your Cognitive Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 1 – A Loving God)

Goal: To develop Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode behaviors that demonstrate you’re Loving Your Neighbor In Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors, Part 1 of 3, we looked at the 19 core components of Agape Love, how they serve as a foundation for Healthy Adult Mode behavior, and how God would like to pour these into our … More Spiritual #12: Your Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 3 — Loving Your Neighbor) 

Goal: To develop Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode behaviors that demonstrate you’re Loving Yourself You may recall my shortened definition of Wisdom is “to become skilled in living,” and a word-picture of the Greek word Sophia describes Wisdom as an artist, or any person standing before a blank canvas, who creates (with God’s help, inspiration and guidance) a beautiful picture that depicts their life one … More Spiritual #11: Your Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 2 – Loving Yourself)

Goal: To understand the nature of God (His Love and Wisdom for Our Heart) as Healthy Adults  “We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity” – Step 2 “We love because He first loved us” – I John 4:19 (TNIV) Healthy Adult Characteristic #1 – LOVE: You knew … More Spiritual #10: Your Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 1 – A Loving God)

The Healthy Adult Mode series is written to provide you with insights, ideas and suggested behaviors, which when implemented, will assist you to obtain the healthiest of all outcomes for yourself and with others in the 7 Core Areas of your life.  The term Healthy Adult Mode actually comes from Schema Therapy, and when in this mode the … More Spiritual #9: Introduction to the Healthy Adult Mode Series