The Igniting Hope Blog

When Helping Doesn't Help By Steve Backlund Enabling is behavior that unintentionally shields someone from the negative consequences of their harmful actions, often under the guise of help. Have you ever helped someone only to realize later that your help actually kept them stuck? Has anyone “helped” you, but it just prolonged a dysfunction? Most people don't enable others because they have bad hearts. They do so because they have compassionate hearts. We see someone hurting