Healing
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.
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.