"Estrangement" means the state of being emotionally separated or disconnected from someone, typically a family member or friend. It describes a feeling of distance or alienation, where there is a lack of closeness or involvement in the relationship.
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Christianity continued and even heightened the apocalyptic sense
of estrangement of the self from the given historical situation, but it heightened also the sense of total responsibility for the soul.
An Alpha leader in his 40s talked about episodes of violence, about failed marriages and about the years of
estrangement from his family.
The first part of this essay, published in last month's issue, recounted how the process of
estrangement between Vanderbilt University and the Southern Methodist Church was typical of the alienation of mainstream Protestant colleges and universities from their churches, occurring from about 1870....
The journey back from
estrangement in a marriage involves assisting each person to grow their consciousness of their heart and soul, i.e. Erica and Paul are beginning to do with me in marriage therapy.
Lost in Translation explores cultural dislocation, loneliness and emotional
estrangement by highlighting the gap between seeing, hearing and understanding.
«Dr. Coleman himself experienced several years of
estrangement with his adult daughter, with whom he has reconciled.
California courts are willing to order this type of arrangement for a variety of reasons, including a likelihood of parental kidnapping, a
long estrangement between parent and child, or in cases of domestic violence.
When a parent is rejected by a child for what appears to be valid and justified reasons, the rejection is referred to
as estrangement not alienation.
I was originally planning to make a Southern ensemble comedy drama last year that was about
family estrangement and featured much older characters, but after that project got delayed, the idea for «Princess Cyd» came to me.
The second is the factor of
estrangement which is the brokenness of life's essential relationships.
And so the battle for man's soul is a battle which is always fought over the primordial truth of his body,
causing estrangement of body and spirit.
When this happens, it can cause turmoil and
even estrangement if the feelings are not processed and dealt with.
In fact, when the alienation is caused by the rejected parent, as in poor parenting skills, abuse, etc., then the rejection is referred to as
estrangement not alienation.
This section has been
about estrangement of ourselves from ourselves and from others through idolizing false values.
Recent research (Kelly and Johnson, 2001) confirms that there are many reasons for this distance, ranging from
realistic estrangement, where a child is distant or rejects a parent who has abused him, to pathological alienation, where a child is distant or rejects a parent due to the influence of the other parent.
We
experience estrangement from ourselves when we are other than what we could be as fulfilled human beings, experiencing life to the full.
Ludmer has practiced corporate and securities law for twenty - seven years and in parallel he conducts a family law practice focused on situations involving custody disputes,
child estrangement, and parental alienation, as well as high net worth divorce litigation and business valuation.
We provide support for twins and other multiples who have lost their twin due to death or
estrangement at any age.
In video works such as «For a Better Life» (2006) or «Taking Care» (2014) the artist addresses the viewer directly, guiding him through an array of fast - paced imagery and text, in effect causing a sense of disorientation and
physical estrangement.
The rise in narcotics addiction in recent years, particularly among young people, is in large measure a result of the prevalent decay of purpose, the loss of stable values, and the feelings of
personal estrangement, loneliness, hopelessness, and meaninglessness which characterize the present age.
Most experts would concur that such cases are better viewed as cases of
estrangement rather than alienation.
Social Estrangement Factors Associated with Income Generation Among Homeless Young Adults in Three U.S. Cities.
I specialize in co-parenting, parental alienation,
parenting estrangement, and parent - child relationship issues.
Theologically, the twentieth century was inaugurated by theology's reaction against the
new estrangement which our time has brought the Christian faith.
From the beginning of civilization, men experienced an
inner estrangement between their rational consciousness and the psyche as a whole.
The curriculum is designed to be used at the beginning, middle or end of case, but before
significant estrangement has occurred.
Just as the counselor enters the frame of reference of a troubled person and, without being neurotic, significantly participates in that person's neurosis, so God, according to Christian witness, participates concretely in our human
estrangement without himself being estranged.
In the process of that
widening estrangement, Christianity has lost its understanding of the Jewishness of Jesus; has lost touch with the culture out of which the message of Jesus was spoken, thus bringing a Gentile definition to Jewish words; and has lost its sense of the immediacy of God's working through scandalous particulars in human history in order to affirm the universal goodness of his creation.
Julia's planned vacation on Big Sawyer Island becomes a journey of self - discovery as she re-evaluates her relationship with her philandering husband and her
bitter estrangement from her parents.
The artist's
professed estrangement from her own images adds yet another level of mystery to an already delightfully peculiar group of works.
Perhaps you can contact the college your Son attends and speak to his college counsellor regarding your health and the ongoing Parental Alienation — which has now turned
into estrangement.
So too God participates in the joy of the individual
whose estrangement is converted to at - one - ment with God.
The question, then, is whether their differences condemn Muslims and Christians to
estrangement before God as subject.
Actually, Christian theology at its best has recognized that sin is not fundamentally an act but rather the condition of alienation or
estrangement out of which harmful acts may arise.
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