Every year I pick a word to focus my heart and mind on, and this year I landed on portion.
It encompasses the many ongoing challenges I have faced; moments when I don't feel as though my career is
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Monsters in the Night
One evening I found myself battling a subtle bout of anxiety. I laid in bed next to my husband, as he dozed off to sleep. I wasn't quite sure why I was feeling the way I did... maybe it was simply the
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You’re invited!
Hi friends, I don't know about you, but January has come and gone and I am ready to be done with seeing all the ads and marketing schemes about how I can "get skinny quick" with some sort of kale
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this is what our girl’s should be learning about God and their relationship with food.
Happy January friends! My winter break has been wonderful. Many mornings were spent lounging in pajamas and early evenings swimming in our back yard pool. It was a nice change of rhythm with no
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Ways to Care for Aging Parents
Something has been on my heart lately.
As I approach 40, I am beginning to soften.
I am especially softening towards my parents.
The things they say that used to bother me, now make me
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Here Are Tools To Support Sober Living (for others, and you!)
I recently shared on social media that it has been TEN years since I had my last drink or popped my last pill! Praise God! It is hard to even think back a decade ago to when I checked into a thirty
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THIS has changed everything.
A few months ago I got an urge to seek professional help for one of my children. I noticed the tools my husband and I were offering to help with regulation simply weren't working anymore. I began to
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When Blessings Feel Like Burdens
Have you ever asked yourself why?
Why I am doing all that I am doing? The Bible Study. The PTF meeting. The room mom responsibility. That draining job. The constant updates on social media. The
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Is Good Grief Possible?
Blessed are those who mourn, but why don't we feel blessed?
Recently, I shared on social media a situation I had with someone close to me. They did something they said they wouldn't do, and well,
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