Challenging Normal

This may seem like some strange posts this week but this is something that the Lord has been dealing with me about for several weeks now, so I thought I would share it. I am a firm believer that emotional health is very important. When there is a breakdown in your emotional health it can lead to trouble in the spiritual and even physical health. Emotional health affects your moods, your perspective and many more things that you may not realize. There are some things that you need to avoid if you are going to remain emotional healthy:

One sided friendships - We all seem to have them. People that we call our friends but if we are going to talk to them or interact with them then it is us that has to call or make the effort. If we do not work at the friendship there would not be one.

Emotional vampires - People that are always down and love to bring you down. People that want you to believe that they would not survive without your help. They know just how to bring you down when you are in a good mood. They know how to suck the life out of everyone around them.

Unbalanced relationships - I heard a young lady once say, "never make someone a priority when they treat you like an option." An unbalanced friendship or relationship happens when you place it at more of a level of importance than they do.

Just like our spiritual and physical health, we have to work at our emotional health as well.