Have you ever wondered how you move from regretful to resilient? Many listeners reached out to us and shared their own stories of trauma, poverty, and mental health challenges. Breaking Good is now becoming a book that will speak to adults who’ve struggled with the meaning of home.
Today is the official Launch Day of One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Mediation. Yesterday, This is My Body author and dear friend Hannah Shanks told me: “If we ever needed deep breaths and ways to hold onto ourselves, it’s now.” 2018 wasn’t exactly stellar. It’s hard to remember a year that was. …
My mother died one year ago today. I still remember our first evening without her in the world. Fred, Ron, and I rode through downtown Raleigh with the windows down, and I thought: She’ll never hear the sounds of August again—the cicadas’ song that tell us …
Guest post by Dr. Julia W. Burns, author and psychiatrist. Learn more about Julia’s work at juliaburns.org. After resigning from my job as medical director of a residential treatment facility for emotionally disturbed children, I began making art. Listening to the children’s stories of abuse …
Guest blog post by Laura Whitfield, who is writing a memoir entitled, All the Faces Looking Back at Me. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with her husband Stephen. You can follow Laura at laurawhitfield.com. People write memoir for many different reasons—as a way to …
Friends: I’m delighted to welcome back Kristen E. Vincent to the blog. You may remember Kristen from her post on “Sabbath Opportunities” in 2014. Kristen is a gifted author and one of the women of My Quiet Spaces, a spiritual community for women created by …