Some days, especially lately, it weighs on my heart just how important it is to be a woman that shapes her actions around being a force for good. I think a lot about my roles as friend, sister, daughter, wife, mother, and even youth small group leader and the zones of influence my actions have …
Like A Tree by the Water: having faith in the unknowns
Many do not know that my husband and I are currently in the middle of watching our sweet 10-month-old daughter undergo testing to help solve a problem of repeated seizure episodes. A few months ago we noticed her tossing her head forward rather violently in repeated motions: toss, recover, life as normal for a few …
Love or Control?
I am all too familiar with the same old scenario of one partner becoming overwhelmingly, obsessively controlling and the victim of these harsh and very dictatorial behaviors often is left reeling and telling themselves they never believed it would or could happen to them. The harsh reality, however, is that these situations are all too …