Hope for Healing
Breaking the Silence: Conversations on Suicide Prevention
Breaking the silence and sharing our own difficult journeys and how we reclaimed our life can offer others much-needed hope. In this very personal video, I share my journey to spread awareness of the very real despair that some face, and offer hope to those who struggle in the darkness. We are not alone.
Reflections on Fear, Freedom, and Compassion
The power to preserve freedom does not come out of hateful rhetoric, but out of love and fostering kindness.
Mental Shifts That Will Change Your Life!
In this Building on the Light interview, Steve Galley shares key mental shifts that build confidence and can change your life. His messages inspire action and can give momentum to our healing journey. He challenges us to “Focus on progress instead of perfection.” His message of hope comes as an invitation to “Think back to a time in your life where you exhibited courage.” Make a habit of courage, and the confidence will follow.
Healing Through Writing
In this interview, our guest Cindy Tschosik shares about finding your voice and the healing power of writing for you and others. Cindy reminds us we are not alone on our healing journey. You can connect with Cindy at https://www.soconnectedllc.com/
Embracing Change: Finding Joy in Life’s Seasons
A change of seasons does not mean that life has ended, just the way we were living it. In the meantime, we pray for eyes to see the beauty ahead and hearts that are open to finding joy in every season.
Focus Forward: Focus on the Light
Focusing forward and focusing on the Light can cure our blindness. In doing that, we can rediscover new motivation and energy to pursue a life we can thrive in—one that is uniquely our own.
Hope, Healing and the Courage to Thrive
What does it mean to find your light, even when life tries to dim it? I had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Eric Aroca on his podcast about the answers to this and other questions that come up as we navigate our healing journey. Sharing our trials and triumphs is such a big part of finding hope, healing, and the courage to thrive. Thank you, Eric for helping get the positive messages out there!
Healing Through Spirit-Body Connection
There is healing in forging the spirit-body connection. Pursuing physical and spiritual awareness and growth uncovers strength and the ability to move forward. We can build a life we love and can thrive in, regardless of the trials we face.
It’s Okay Not to Be Okay: Embracing Healing and Growth
Accepting that it is okay to not be okay freed me from the chains of my trauma. But it did not stop my growth, in fact, it accelerated it.
Life, Liberty, and Happiness: The Internal Revolution
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are what we all crave. The need for the human soul to have power over their own lives led to the American Revolution and is what leads us to an internal revolution against the effects of trauma that would hold us prisoner. It is what drives us to work through and beyond the devastating events that would steal our freedom.
Reclaiming Your Identity After Trauma
We cannot choose the past, but we can build a future by mining the strengths and goodness inside us. Ultimately, we can choose to stay in the muck of the pain and anguish, or we can choose to own our lives and discover and nurture our true identities.
Lessons from a Second Father
A father’s influence is something that can be felt for generations. For good or bad we carry with us the lessons learned by their actions and how they lived their life. While my biological father’s influence was not a good one, I was fortunate to have lessons from a second father, Lane. Lane was my…
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.