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Spiritual Direction Without By-Passing (Part 4): Growing Our Window of Tolerance
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kasey hitt
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Mar 17, 2026
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A few weeks ago, my college-age daughter shared with me that something I had said to her in sixth grade had become part of her inner critic.
She told me that whenever a paper or project was assigned, she would hear my voice in her ear asking if she had been working on it. That voice pushed her alre...
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