Category: Mental Health
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Why I’m Reading the Bible in a Year (Again)
There’s something about the turn of a new year that feels sacred to me. The calendar flips, the pace shifts just enough to take a deep breath, and I find myself asking the same quiet question every January: What do I want to shape my heart and mind this year? For me, the answer keeps coming…
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2.5 Years as Adoptive Parents — Our Biggest Takeaways
It’s hard to believe she’s been with us almost as long as she was in her first home, there is something that feels so monumental of crossing that threshold between longer there than with us and moving into the future. I’ve heard from so many adoptive families that have come before us that every season…
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Creating Connections: Fall S’mores and Stories for Families
This year we are fully diving into the season. Last year was hard and distanced for so many reasons I’ve already talked about here. When we re-did some of our goals during this year, working through so much, one of the things we keep coming back to is having our doors open. So fall hit…
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On My Soul Breathing in the Most Unexpected Way from the Most Unexpected Place
Maybe you are resisting in the exact place your soul might be at peace. Coming off the roller coaster of the past few months I truly tried to find a way not to go camping and yet here we are on the other side and while I still don’t like sleeping on the ground outside…
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Breaking the Cycle of Food Anxiety in Children
“Mommy, you packed me bad foods.” “What?” I responded. “You packed me pretzels and they are crunchy munchees and my teacher said those are bad for me to eat” “That is not true, mommy packs you a lot of different foods that work together to make you strong and healthy”. We were getting in the…
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Creating Our Calming Corners
How we go from all out brawls to relaxed space in just a few minutes. Having kids of any age is going to result in daily disagreements, fights, and sometimes physical torment; having virtual twins with very different backgrounds enhances that reality ten-fold. Our house would be super calm until it wasn’t. Having them at…
Fueling Her Forward 