Do you know someone who is going through a very difficult time with their child? Maybe it is someone who is in the throws of parenting a special needs child. Maybe it is a parent enduring a hospitalization. Maybe it is a family whose child just attempted suicide. Or maybe even it is a family whose child was just arrested. 6 Ways you can help.
A Parent’s Guide: Checking Your Child Into a Psychiatric Hospital or Treatment Center
I belong to a support group for moms who parent children with mental health risk. With the exception of just a few, all of us have had the experience of driving our child to a psychiatric hospital, filling out mounds of admission paperwork, saying a painful goodbye to our child, and driving away. Whether it …
A Parent’s Guide: What to do when Your Child Experiences a Mental or Behavioral Health Crisis.
Maybe you can relate to this scenario: hour long meltdowns for no apparent reason, inability to re-direct, aggressive tantrums that result in property destruction or flying objects, bruising left on you due to trying to restrain your child. If this sounds familiar, or you know someone who is walking this path, keep reading. The holidays …
Seeing Jesus in Job
This Christmas season I have challenged myself to think about how I experience Jesus in the day to day. In what I do, in what I see, in how I interact with others, in what I read. Even with the crazy upside down world we seem to live in right now, I do not want …
Experiencing Jesus This Season
How will you experience Jesus this Christmas season? I have been thinking about this question lately. In an unprecedented year, with an unprecedented virus, Jesus is still the same as He has always been. But how do we experience him, and how does he show up for us? As many couples do, my husband and …
Land of the Living
, “I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living! Wait for the LORD, be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!”~Psalm 27: 13 Anybody else struggling with Fall scheduling? Making schooling decisions, business decisions, keeping social commitments rather than sinking into …
The Next Right Thing…Today
Impossible decisions. Unexpected situations. We are all here, aren’t we? I find myself daily second guessing so many things, especially schooling for my children and how to schedule my music students this Fall. In person or virtual – how many times do I say those words now on a daily basis? And honestly, I always …
Taking Inventory
This Spring has turned our world upside down, hasn’t it? So many changes all at once. So many challenges about how to navigate schooling, work, living in masks, and now how to re-enter society. And crazy enough, I don’t know if I am ready to move on out of this time of a home-bound, restricted, …
A Marathon of Discomfort
This past weekend I was suppose to run a marathon. Instead, I ran a sunny, laughter filled 11 miles with my running partners. Like many Spring plans, training came to a screeching halt 9 weeks ago when I could no longer run the long miles with my running partner, and the uncertainty of race day …
Un-Wasted Suffering
I have had two sweet friends this Spring lose babies due to miscarriage. I say due to miscarriage because that is the medical name given when the baby dies in utero. But is that really what is the cause? Every once in a while my kids ask why our third child died in miscarriage. How …