Seeing Challenges as Opportunities for Personal Growth
As a kid growing up, I was born into a very challenging life. My mom was a single mother with five kids, one of which was mentally retarded, my father was a severe alcoholic who became very abusive at times, and we were on welfare. We lived in a...
The Dark Night of the Soul – Personal Crisis and the Process of Personal Transformation
Personal Transformation, which is often referred to in spiritual texts as ‘Alchemy’, and in Biblical texts as redemption, is described as a thinning, sorting, and filtering process of calcification, dissolution, distillation, coagulation and so on, as the process necessary to separate out all contaminates and impurities, and restoring the...