What makes it so difficult for many women to ask for what they need for themselves? Recently I have heard 2 women framing their problems as stress in their lives. When encouraged to explore that "stress," they were each able to articulate a need that they had difficulty expressing to those involved in their stress issue...a need that once fulfilled would at least decrease the stress. Clinically,they were encouraged to use the well known "I statements" when expressing their need rather than the "you statements"that can come across as accusatory.
And on further exploration they each were able to acknowledge that the stress created by not engaging in the difficult, sometimes scary work, of expressing their needs to someone else, they were setting themselves up for an emptiness. That emptiness, that loneliness felt like a spiritual emptiness at times. They were reminded to pray. To seek an intimacy with God. God knows what our needs are and He wants to be with us in the seeking. He promises to be with us in the seeking.
Do we remember to take the hand He offers us?
Blessings-Penny
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