Paul Elmore

Do you believe that you can change? I’m not talking about the everyday lip service that you tell yourself. I’m talking about deep down, in your gut, where it really matters belief. Do you believe that you can actually change? Can you see yourself as someone completely different? What Is Openness Letting go of the […]

Brene Brown says that “Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.” This belief system is what keeps you and me from being able to move past some of our poor choices or experiences and find peace and personal acceptance. Why Talk […]

Parents— when you get scared for your kids, its normal to tighten down the screws on your sweet, innocent, loving teenagers. But what would happen if  just the opposite happened. Its About Equiping, NOT Obedience Parents who demand obedience will have lots and lots of rules. And yes, you may win that battle for a […]

For the last few weeks, I’ve been speaking at a local private school about relationships and sex. The school was kind enough to let me speak once more, this time to the parents of the students. I shared with them some of the same information the students received in session two, but also talked about […]

If you listened to Session One of the High School Romance (use to call it Listen UP!) then you know that a couple of Friday’s ago I gathered 120 surveys from a group of Jr. High and High School students asking about relationships and sex. I took those surveys and crunched the numbers during the […]

Friday, December 3rd I was asked to speak to 120 Jr. High and High School students about relationships and sex. I always enjoy this topic because it is an issue that is important to most adolescents but is rarely talked about. I also wanted it to be as interesting as possible instead of just one […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had an early warning system that alerted us BEFORE we made mistakes? I believe that we do have something  like that, we’ve just learned to ignore it. Our feelings and intuition are great tools that can be used to keep us safe. When we have that uncomfortable feeling or […]

Starting at the age of about 4 we enter into a phase where we believe that we are responsible for everything that happens around us. It is called ego-centrism. Being ego-centric is our way of understanding our world and it is a perfectly normal phase of development. But what happens when something bad happens to […]

Have you ever had that thing that you clung onto so tightly that when it was lost you sort of lost yourself as well? It is a very common issue for most of us. Often that is a sign that we have are using that thing to give us our sense of value. We have […]

Failure often confirms a pre-existing negative belief we hold of ourselves. That is why many of us fear failure so much. If we can look at those beliefs and some how learn to change them, then current failures and mistakes won’t be such a problem anymore. The following is a 5 minute audio clip from […]