Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional life»

From coming of age to mid-life crisis; from life to death and back again; this is the complete story of one man's journey through a dysfunctional life...

-- and a very spot - on one at that — because, thereafter, the film's rocky first twenty minutes is so forcefully broad and madcap all at once to take in Joy's wacky dysfunctional life.

It has a really similar structure, you follow a young boy with a dysfunctional life through a period of this life.

The danger is there's not sufficient focus on the disturbingly large number of young people who are living dysfunctional lives.

Wiener - Dog follows the wayward adventures of a dachshund who passes from oddball owner to oddball owner — including the world's worst mom, a beleaguered screenwriter, and the grown - up Dawn Wiener of Welcome to the Dollhouse — whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

It follows the wayward adventures of a dachshund who passes from oddball owner to oddball owner — including a terrible mom, a beleaguered screenwriter and the grownup incarnation of Welcome to the Dollhouse's Dawn Wiener — whose dysfunctional lives are affected by the pooch.

It follows the wayward adventures of a dachshund who passes from oddball owner to oddball owner — including the world's worst mom, a beleaguered screenwriter, and the grownup incarnation of Welcome to the Dollhouse's Dawn Wiener — whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

It's a bunch of dysfunctional people living dysfunctional lives and I don't see any of them even wanting to improve, they just want to continue being dysfunctional.

They start with thoroughly dysfunctional lives brought on by poor judgment or terrible luck and barely get it together by a miracle at the end.

Not exact matches

Suburban life is highlighted at its most dysfunctional in this best picture Oscar winner that looks at a father (Kevin Spacey) in a midlife crisis and the drama surrounding the rest of his family.

Former Exec VP of Disney Lee Cockerell shares his life story, how he grew up in a dysfunctional family, and important leadership lessons.

If middle - class living standards were increasing at traditional rates, politics across the developed world would likely be far less surly and dysfunctional.

If any part of you says yes, doesn't it seem oddly dysfunctional that God would desire or expect those leading his people to spend life feeling like Gringos?

To know and believe that all mankind is born spiritually lifeless (spiritually dead) and dysfunctional, and as a descendent of Adam each of us needs life (who is the person of Jesus Christ the Righteous One of God).

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Furthermore there is no rational argument for equating homosexual union, which is anatomically and physiologically dysfunctional and unproductive of new life, with heterosexual union.

Although my family was considered «saved» my home life was really dysfunctional & there were also times of abuse within the church, and outside of that too... There are really bad people everywhere.

She suffered a prolonged bout of clinical depression, born out of an abusive childhood and no doubt aggreviated by life in the fishbowl of a parsonage while I was serving dysfunctional churches.

Could not money used to keep dysfunctional bodies alive be better used to feed, clothe, house, educate people who are alive» and want to live creatively?

Money provides a sense of being» to people, and hence the divine becomes dysfunctional in peoples lives.

Jonathan says he is the product of a life - long lover's quarrel with his native Pentecostal tradition, but ultimately loves his beautiful (if occasionally dysfunctional) eccliessial roots.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

He offers healing through words of forgiveness, so this man may find free access to the love of God that will carry him through all of life — a wholeness that a dysfunctional body can not deny him.

Even non-religious people, while they may not use the word «sin,» realize that there is something not quite right, something disordered or dysfunctional with the way we attempt to cope with the challenges of life.

very hard thing to come to the realization when I was 19 that I had grown up in a dysfunctional family and that it had given me a footprint that I would carry for the rest of my life.

I'm apprehensive that you'll disqualify yourselves on the grounds that you work in a noisy office or live in a dysfunctional family or don't have much interest in that kind of life.

Seems like Steve is referencing the little self or the Ego (self centeredness, the flesh, performance: dysfunctional coping mechanisms, pride, masks, self value from doing) and David is referencing the Self (the heart, the inner life, intimacy, transparency, vulnerability, self value form Being).

Because of the increase in mental illness associated with political and economic inequalities resulting in stressful living conditions, several types of dysfunctional parenting have also been identified.

Angelique Cabral spends her days playing Colleen in the comedy Life in Pieces, which follows one big happy (and sometimes dysfunctional family), but at home, she is spending time with her own family....

While ODD can develop in children from loving and stable families, it's not uncommon for these children to have had a dysfunctional home life and / or exposure to violence.

And so the New York Legislature continues to live up to its reputation as one of the country's most dysfunctional.

The Democrats» short - lived stint in power was chaotic and dysfunctional, and the death of the marriage vote caused advocates to change their tactics, focusing on ousting «no» voters regardless of their party affiliation rather than putting all their hopes in one conference or the other.

Once again, the dysfunctional legislators find a way to protect the high life while the poor slob working class get hosed again.

Sure, if he follows through on his promise to veto their gerrymander, the New York Times editorial board will cheer, but then, for as long as he remains in this particular office, Cuomo will have to live with either a vengeful Republican Senate majority or a dysfunctional Democratic one, which may turn out to be even worse for him.

He has severely attacked black members of the school board but he has also worked hard at the school board to make changes he believes will help students including struggling black students living in dysfunctional homes.

When Nigerian presidents, governors, ministers, CEOs of companies must travel abroad either for rest or medicals, they merely remind us something remains dysfunctional in two major areas of our life as a country - These are health and tourism.

Responding to the London Chambers of Commerce and Industry Report on emergency workers living outside the capital, Labour's London Assembly Fire Spokesperson, Fiona Twycross AM, said: «It's abundantly clear that London's dysfunctional housing market has priced out many who serve in our frontline services.

«Our research is potentially important for life - threatening blood cancers characterised by dysfunctional stem cells — which are common in elderly people.

Having had children — particularly early in life — and a dysfunctional romantic relationship are the two most frequently cited reasons when low - income mothers are asked about why they find themselves in poverty.

In this study, 36.8 % of high - genetic risk adoptees living in a dysfunctional family environment were found to have developed a schizophrenia - spectrum disorder, compared to only 5.8 % of those in a healthy family environment.

Arguably the cross-link biochemistry of diabetic patients is somewhat removed from that of a healthy individual, as short - lived cross-links, including those that arrive in the diet, become much more important as a source of harm to organs in such a dysfunctional metabolism.

In addition to dysfunctional family relationships, some of the key stress - creating factors in life (and therefore things to avoid, or make efforts to minimize the stress impact on the children) have been judged to include (with «Most Stressful» at the top of the list).

«But the problem is that many are living at 80 percent «car accident» [mode] all the time, and having a stress response going on chronically becomes dysfunctional.»

Too often I see people with dysfunctional automatic nervous systems because they have been living on refined carbs sugar and caffeine, not sleeping, living in chronic stress, and destroying the helpful bacteria in their bodies through antibiotics chemicals and over the counter medications like ibuprofen, and of course with toxic foods.

For people resistant to dietary and lifestyle modifications to resolve intestinal permeability, I will share that I am a living testament to the consequences of dysfunctional intestinal permeability, which leads to a domino scenario where autoimmune conditions are developed one after another.

Many of us default into the unhealthy patterns we observed in our parents, and the «dysfunctional family» may describe many or even most of our early - life experiences.

I help others break free from their INNER CRITIC, end their dysfunctional relationships with food and exercise, love their bodies, and find the FREEDOM to live a CONFIDENT LIFE.

As the Buddha writes of those who have done the work to free themselves from the dysfunctional patterns of mind and action: «Ah, so happily we live, we who have no attachments.

Singapore About Blog mrbrown's blog containing his popular and satirical musings on the dysfunctional side of Singapore life, and Home of the National Conversation since 1997.

Jaimy ended up in a dysfunctional marriage in her early 20s, with a baby son to take care of and no idea how to make her life easier.