Conversations with Cinthia

A Fearless Moral Inventory, Part 3

Some of our past choices can truly sicken us.  Do you still have memories that bring wave upon wave of horror, guilt, or shame when you remember them?  These can make us want to avoid our moral inventories, but truly resolving them can bring us freedom we have not dared to imagine.  Cinthia offers us a step-by-step approach to address these issues.  

A Fearless Moral Inventory, Part 2

It takes tremendous courage to look at ourselves honestly and come clean to someone else, and it matters who that someone else is.  How do we get the courage to step into the light, and whom should we trust to go there with us?

A Fearless Moral Inventory, Part 1

Ever heard that phrase about being your own worst enemy?  If we want to make sure we aren't working against ourselves, we have to look honestly at ourselves and apply acceptance, responsibility, and effort.  Cinthia begins this series with a focus on the kindness of God that leads us to repentance, and how this kindness is exactly what we need to face the truth of what we've done.

30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself, Part 3

We are on the third and final day of looking at ways we can stop self-sabotaging.  Today, Cinthia looks at the importance of letting go of habits like withholding forgiveness, lowering your own ethics to meet those of others, over-explaining yourself to others, missing the beautiful things, holding onto perfectionism, following the path of least resistance, and more.

30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself, Part 2

Yesterday, we started talking about how to stop working against yourself.  Today, we continue with more things NOT to do to yourself, including holding grudges, looking exclusively to others for our happiness, being idle so that we have too much time to think ourselves in circles, getting into relationships with the wrong people, and rejecting new relationships based on cynicism from past relationships.

30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself, Part 1

Do you ever make your own life harder than it needs to be?  Cinthia starts a three-day series in which she lists 30 things to stop doing to yourself.  Today she discusses spending time with the wrong people, running from your problems, lying to yourself, and more.

Famous Late Bloomers and First Failures

Do you ever think that pursuing dreams is a thing better left to the young?  Are you tempted to think the time to reach your own potential has passed?  Cinthia gives an impressive list of people who accomplished amazing things later in life, or who failed impressively before succeeding notably.

Unleashing Your Potential & the Seed: Stop Trying So Hard Because You're Worth More Than You Think

The idea of unleashing your potential can be overwhelming until we remember that we are on this journey with the God Who created the potential in the first place.  He already values us more than we could ever imagine, so His value for us is not dependent on our success in reaching our potential.  Instead, we learn from Him to move toward the goals He assigns us, knowing that He provides the resources and loves us regardless of our success.  

Unleashing Your Potential

If the word "potential" seems irrelevant to your adult life, this episode is for you.  Cinthia shares a definition of potential and discusses what it means to carry the seed God planted in your heart, even when it seems like it will never grow.  

Stop Playing It Safe, Part 2

Maybe yesterday's episode got you thinking that it's time for you to step out a little and not let fear stop you anymore.  Ok... great... how?  Cinthia encourages turning fear into excitement, a return to the wonder of exploration and discovery, acceptance of our own strengths and weaknesses, responsibility with effort, nurture, letting go of what has to die, redefining failure, and dealing with the reality of what your talents are and are not.  Cinthia explores what each of these means.  The potential God created inside you is worth unleashing with Him.