Sentences with phrase «feelings of powerlessness in»

The ability to make a positive difference in their lives and the lives of their family and community members through Child - to - Child programs helps children overcome feelings of powerlessness in the present and gain skills towards building resilience for the future.

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Suddenly, in light of God's glory we feel quite insecure, remembrances of Christ's sacrifices demand quite unpleasurable thoughts, and the overwhelming presence of the Spirit leaves us trembling and acutely aware of our powerlessness.

For a moment, we felt something of the poverty and powerlessness of our fellow Christians whose lives were daily in jeopardy.

From this perspective, there is much we can learn from the household codes about confronting our own privilege, keeping whatever power we may have in check, responding to our feelings of powerlessness, practicing mutual submission in our marriages, and imitating Christ in all of our interpersonal relationships.

They try to overcome and defend themselves against this feeling of powerlessness through a massive increase in nuclear arms, and they try to conquer their fear and reassure themselves by asserting that we can prevail if we do indeed multiply our nuclear arsenal.

What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

It either drives me into a posture of defensiveness, or immobilizes, or evokes feelings of powerlessness which do not in fact square with my real situation.

What we see historically as «apathy» may sometimes be a by - product of the genuine powerlessness people feel in complex situations.

A great variety of compensatory devices — healthy and unhealthy — are developed by persons in their struggles to overcome feelings of powerlessness and inferiority.

He discovered the ways in which the old beliefs had given him a sense of undeserved and derivative (from God) worth and power to compensate temporarily and ineffectively for his personal feelings of unworthiness and powerlessness.

The chronic, mutually damaging power struggles that bring people for marriage counseling almost always stem from hidden feelings of powerlessness and low self - esteem in both persons.

The most common experience Sun Ship workers feel is a sense of powerlessness... a sense that there's no institution in this society that really cares — or is able to do much about the situation we are in.

The class of the proletariat feels annihilated in its self - alienation: it sees in its own powerlessness and the reality of an inhuman existence.28

He first felt that powerlessness when his brother Marvin died in 1969, while Julius was a freshman at the University of Massachusetts.

These feelings of powerlessness are common in the NICU.

Delaying a reward, as in the marshmallow test, stirs a frustrating feeling of powerlessness, her team proposes.

In one scene, his wide, expressive eyes stream unblinking tears, conveying a horrifically visceral feeling of physical and metaphorical powerlessness.

The realities Ngounou saw for teachers, administrators, families, and students working in education painted a bleak picture of the future, one in which despite all the hard work a certain feeling of powerlessness about policies and practices remained.

I have read that many Americans, since 9/11, are feeling a sense of powerlessness and futility about decisions being made in Washington.

But at that moment when I felt ready to give up, its contribution was decisive: It rejected the powerlessness that my colleagues had articulated, and affirmed my professional convictions about the centrality of the arts in public education.

When The Lovely Bones came out in July 2002, BookPage reviewer Becky Ohlsen wrote that Alice Sebold found an «inventive way of expressing the universal alienation and powerlessness we all feel, trapped in our own small worlds apart from each other.»

Mahmoud knows he will «never forget that feeling of paralyzing terror, of powerlessness» in the face of death and humiliation as he bravely soldiers on to Europe.

- the scene at the beginning of a ceremony caused Shimamura a bit of trouble - the lines of the ritual did not properly reflect Zelda's personality, her motivations, her powerlessness, and awkwardness - Shimamura talked about it with Naoki Mori (who was in charge of Cinematic Design, including screenplay, and cutscenes)- the whole thing was rewritten several times, until they arrived at the final result - there's quite a lot of scenes she really likes in the game - her favorite line is the «Yes» Princess Zelda gives as an answer to the Deku Tree in a particular scene - in that scene, Zelda thinks about what she should do, but she can not see it at all - she refuses to give up, and wants to give hope to Link - Shimamura tried to convey all of those feelings through the single «Yes» she spoke - recording felt completely different than for animation, the dubbing of (foreign) movies, or other games - there was no fixed routine of how to approach it, as all different things were being tried out - lines were redone even after other lines were implemented in the game, as the team found better ways to say things - Shimamura finally managed to beat the game the other day, but she wants to keep practicing her shield surfing - Shimamura explains that she really gave it her whole when voicing Princess Zelda, to give her emotions - she hopes that players will remember their memories of Princess Zelda

Included in the exhibition is Drains, 1990 by Robert Gober, a haunting sculpture cast from pewter that evokes a feeling of despair and powerlessness as young lives were simply washed away.

This often manifests itself in feelings of loneliness, powerlessness, and eventually one or both partners distancing themselves from each other.

In order to effect change, therapeutic work can help a client counteract the feelings of powerlessness that often inhibit personal growth.»

In addition, this tracking and awareness of feelings helps the child to process and resolve those feelings that have been causing him problems at school or at home, such as repressed anger, shame, frustration, fear, or powerlessness.

Stress, for whatever reason, can be overwhelming and result in feelings of fear, confusion, and powerlessness.

Given the worldwide recognition as an effective treatment of trauma, EMDR therapy is effective in treating the «everyday» memories that are the reason people have low self - esteem, feelings of powerlessness, and all the myriad problems that bring them in for therapy.

When I experience powerlessness in the face of a any situation and I can not control the situation, it is normal to feel anger, despair, hopelessness or fear.

Powerlessness — colonisation sets up a power dynamic where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples felt powerless in the face of colonisers, breeding anger and frustration with no appropriate way for them to be vented.