Project HOPE: HOPE Restored in Who You Are

DIGGING DEEPER         03/09/2015   Hope Restored in Who You Are         Excerpted from Stand Strong by Nick Vujicic The most common bullying experience is being taunted or ridiculed for being “different” in some way. I’m the poster child for this. For most of my life, I’ve been a bully magnet. I’ve heard every imaginable nasty comment about my lack of limbs. Cruel jokes. Even physical threats. Still, if you are being bullied, it hurts. As someone who endured it throughout my teenage years and still runs into it from time to time, I want to give you hope and peace. You can rise above and beyond it. God put you on this earth because He loves you and He has a plan for you. With His help, you will be able to put your bullies in their proper place so their taunts and shunning won’t matter to you. My experience proves that anyone can rise above bullying and have a ridiculously wonderful life. I know you can do the same. You build your bully defense system from the inside out by: 1. Figuring out who you are so no bully can tell you differently or make you feel badly. 2. Taking responsibility for your own behavior and happiness so bullies have no ultimate power over you.       You are a child of God     3. Establishing strong values that no bully can shake. 4. Creating a safety zone within yourself where you can go mentally to draw strength and comfort. 5. Building strong and supportive relationships to stand up for you against bullies. 6. Learning to monitor and manage your responses to the emotions triggered by bullying. 7. Developing a spiritual foundation to help you be at peace and be strong against bullying. 8. Taking the opportunity to learn from your bullying experience so that you can become stronger, wiser, more confident, more faith filled and more prepared to handle any challenges. 9. Creating your bully defense strategy so you are prepared to handle bullies of all kinds. 10. Mastering empathy so you are aware of the needs of others and serve them whenever possible to help them overcome bullying. Refuse to play that game. Instead, believe those who love you when we say you matter to us and to your Creator. You are a child of God, created in His image. You are beautiful. You are the perfectly unique you.       By Nick Vujicic         K-LOVE - 5700 West Oaks Blvd. Rocklin, CA 95765 - (800) 525-LOVE (5683)     FACEBOOK     TWITTER     YOUTUBE     LISTEN ONLINE     FAQS       We hope you found this message to be useful. This email was sent as part of your membership at Educational Media Foundation, the parent company of K-LOVE Radio. Your email address is not sold to or shared with a third party. We sometimes use third parties to fulfill services for us, like email sending or music survey tests. In those cases they will have access to your information for the strict purpose of fulfilling their tasks. 5700 West Oaks Blvd., Rocklin, CA 95765 This email was sent to you at: lisatim93.labellabling@blogger.com Click here if you wish to Unsubscribe or click here to Edit your profile.

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