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Want Change In Our Country? Start With The #AmericaIsKind Challenge

In the midst of election madness, we have forgotten our kindness. We have forgotten our gratitude. We have let negativity win in the news, in our conversations, on our social media. BUT. We are done. We are tired of strife and division. We are exhausted by negativity. We are ready to TURN THE TIDE. We [Read More...]

You Explored 30 Religions… What Did You Pick?

When I wrote “Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: One Woman’s Desperate, Funny, Healing Journey To Explore 30 Religions By Her 30th Birthday“, I never expected the #1 question to be: “So, what religion did you pick?”… because I was never trying to find a religion. (I’d already been there, done that, burned the t-shirt). I was trying [Read More...]

How To Be Your Own Big Sister

I just left my weekly therapy appointment. It feels like someone has reached through my skin and twisted my insides. Sitting in my car, I take deep breaths and try to calm myself enough to drive, enough to go back to work. I tell myself An hour of digging the scariest, darkest closets of my [Read More...]

Name Your Dragon

Drizella Tremaine is Cinderella’s ugly stepsister on the right. When Cinderella manages to make a bow out of scraps, Drizella rips it off her head. When Cinderella and her magical mice piece together a gown from cast-offs, Drizella shreds it.When Cinderella finds and dusts off the one precious item she owns–her departed mother’s pearl necklace–Drizella

Election Survival: 9 Ways to Fast from Negativity and Save Your Sanity

If your sanity is suffering as Election Day approaches, I suggest a Negativity Fast–which is similar to a fast from food except far more pleasant because you give up toxic mental sludge instead of delicious pizza and ice cream. The basic idea of fasting is to abstain from worldly pleasures for spiritual purposes. With this [Read More...]

Angry About Election 2016? Read This.

Are you angry about Election 2016?Have all the debates–between the candidates on TV, coworkers at the water cooler, your family members & friends at dinner, and social media contacts/celebrities—made you want to throw the nearest potted plant at the television/ overturn the water cooler/ stick a fork in someone’s eye/ permanently disconnect your Internet service?Are [Read More...]

Bending Into Brave

It hurts in your center today. It hurts so much that you have to bend over when you sit, cross your arms when you walk–like you’re trying to protect yourself from someone– but you can’t, because that someone is you. “It hurts too much,” the pain says. “There is no hope,” the depression shouts. “Life [Read More...]

Stop Should-ing on Yourself

By Guest Contributor extrodinaireAlece Ronzino, a great idea as we enter the New Year! I’ve been should-ing on myself most of my life. Growing up, I was the all-American good girl. I did well in school. I went on mission trips. I moved to Africa as a missionary when I was 19.I did everything “right”. [Read More...]

Podcast Sunday: Kathy Escobar’s FAITH SHIFT (A #1 PTCS resource!)

When I say they should sell Kathy Escobar’s Faith Shift with PTCS as a boxed set, I’m not even kidding. It is the first resource I send people to when they ask me, “What now?” So I am delighted that on this week’s #PodcastSunday Mark catches up with Kathy to talk about spiritual injuries and [Read More...]

#Podcast Sunday: Paul Young, Author of THE SHACK, on EVE

In this installment of Podcast Sunday, Mark talks withWm. Paul Young, author ofThe Shack,about his latest work Eve. Paul has navigated and overcomedeep pain and trauma in his own life,so he brings wisdom to the question: “What does it mean to be a person of faith in the midst of loss?” He shares a few [Read More...]