Hope for Healing
PTSD Triggers: The Role of Compassion in Healing
Supportive, empathetic, and impartial interactions with others are crucial in the recovery process. I know that, regardless of the pains and heartache we are called to go through, all of us can find light and hope, ultimately thriving in a life that is uniquely our own. Surrounding ourselves with people who believe this truth will help us find hope and healing on the journey.
Understanding PTSD Triggers: Finding Hope in Darkness
The trouble with PTSD is how, just when you think you’re on a good path and doing fine, something along the way triggers old emotions, and you find yourself suddenly in a pit with no way out. Panic ensues, and you feel powerless to do anything, stuck with pain and fear swirling around you. The…
Finding Hope After Emotional Trauma
Emotional trauma has a way of twisting reality, making it hard to see our way to healing. The pain and fear gets a strangle-hold on our hope, blinding us to the very light that can sustain us through the hardship. Trauma has a way of sneaking up on most of us. For some it is…
Overcoming Fear and Anger: Letting It Be Healed
Regardless of the fear, anger, or pain, will I “Let it, rather, be healed”? So the real question is not “Can I be healed?” But, “Will I accept the healing?”
Why Can’t I Cry? Exploring Emotional Barriers
The inability to accept or fully feel and express any intense emotion can lead to depression, burying us deeper in the trauma we’re trying to escape. The truth is, keeping emotion boxed up makes us weaker, more vulnerable, and more at the mercy of the past. Not feeling does not equal being strong.
Reclaiming Your Light: Rediscovering Your Passion
Reclaiming your light is often about rediscovering your passion for life. In this video, guest, Myra Marangi shares how her passion for dance saved her life.
Finding Strength Through Belief in Jesus Christ
Choosing to believe even in our darkest moments—especially in our darkest moments—can keep us from drowning in the storms of despair.
Hope Beyond Diagnosis: Redefining Your Future
Do our challenges with mental illness determine our destination? The answer is often as complex as the diagnosis. But in short, the answer is no. Mental illness does not have to determine our destination. We have the ability to choose the direction our life will take. Life experiences can alter how we get to our destination, but we can choose where we end up.
Survivor Shift: Episode 8
Danielle Morelli shares how she learned to own the truth that each of us deserves life, dignity, and a chance at hope and love.
Fighting Depression
Depression is real and affects people of all walks of life. There is hope and help. In fighting depression, we cannot control how the enemy will fight, but we can choose to stand our ground.
Focus Forward: You Deserve Life
How do we focus forward when we are struggling against burdens that would bury us in a pit of hopeless despair? How do we hold onto the belief that we truly deserve life?
So often, the trauma of abuse robs us of the dignity, hope, and love we both desire and deserve. Focusing forward as we work through our trauma can help us reclaim what was lost. The truth is that regardless of the burdens we carry, we are worth the effort to move forward.
Last year my friend, Danielle Morelli, shared this powerful truth: “You deserve life. You deserve dignity. You deserve a chance at hope and love.” Survivor Shift Episode 6
The Gift: Healing the Child Within
Christmas is a time of gifts. Often, the gifts most needed are for the hurting parts of ourselves—the gift of healing the child within.
Más Christ
Lights, music, gift-giving, and often a little more kindness are at the center of the Christmas season. Recently, my granddaughter led a discussion in her youth group about the importance of keeping Christ in Christmas. After talk of favorite Christmas memories and crazy holiday schedules, she offered a rearranging of the word “Christmas”: Más Christ….
Reclaiming the Light
Focusing on the light as we work through the effects of trauma can free us from darkness and help us reclaim the light we thought we lost.
Giving It Forward—Join the Campaign!
Giving It Forward is about connection and reaching out in simple ways. Even when we feel empty—like we have nothing to give—getting outside ourselves has a way of filling our hearts.
Finding Joy After Trauma
Joy comes when we let the light of truth into the darkness. It is then that our lives have meaning and purpose.
We do not have to stay in the prison of trauma, heartache, and anguish. Regardless of the harsh experiences we have gone through, each of us can find light, hope, and even joy. We can be free to thrive in a life that is uniquely our own.
Healing Trauma: Repairing Your Life’s Foundation
Building or remodeling a life is not an easy process. But no matter what we start with, we can build a full and light-filled life.
Live Life Fully: Embrace Every Adventure
Living life fully means taking each day as it comes and enjoying things along the way. Don’t wait to enjoy the things you love.
Overcoming Abuse: The Power of Hope in Healing
Hope provides a sustaining power in our healing process. Holding on to hope through the dark times helps strengthen our capacity to overcome.
The Power of Compassion in Recovery
Looking beyond ourselves helps us find relief from the storms and frees us from the prison of the pain we carry. It helps us rediscover our worth and uncover the ability to challenge self-defeating thoughts and behaviors that keep us stuck in the dark. Helping others connects us to our inner strength.
Light Behind the Mask
There is light even in the darkest places—even in the darkest parts of us. Mental anguish, regardless of its source, does not take the worth out of its victim. Accepting that reality frees us to own the light and be ourselves.