I think we can all agree that 2020 has been pretty much the weirdest year ever. We’ve all been impacted by the global pandemic, political divisiveness, and social unrest. On top of that, we’re all dealing with personal challenges as well. For me, 2020 brought some...
Ambiguous loss, a term coined by psychologist Pauline Boss, is a loss that occurs without closure or clear understanding. This complicates the grieving process and often results in unresolved or “frozen” grief. There are two types of ambiguous loss: Physical absence...
Who doesn’t want to be happier? While some people are blessed with the natural ability to be happy most of the time, this is not the case for most of us. The average person has 60,000 thoughts in a day and 80% of those thoughts are negative. The good news is that...
Anxiety impacts all of us. Even if you’ve never experienced clinical levels of anxiety yourself, chances are high that someone in your circle has. 1 in 4 Americans will experience anxiety at some point in their lives. When we have a problem (with anxiety or with...
“Live the story you want to tell”. I recently heard this Becky Higgins say this on the Cultivate a Good Life podcast (which I highly recommend) and I LOVE this quote! Most of us don’t live intentionally. Instead, we live in default mode and we don’t pay that much...
Luke 6:32 says “If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them.” For most of us, it’s easy to be loving and kind when people are kind to us. Loving difficult people, on the other hand, is much more...
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