Recently my church community has been focusing on forgiveness – what does it mean that we are forgiven and what does it look like to be a forgiving people? It’s a challenging process, and one that’s been rattling around in my head quite a bit...
Receiving a cancer diagnosis often brings forth a lot of information and questions, and it is normal to feel overwhelmed. As you process through your own journey, or walk alongside a loved one who has been diagnosed with cancer, I hope that you may consider some of...
C.S. Lewis once stated, “I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process”. In the midst of expressing grief I believe it is often best understood as a process. C.S. Lewis later...
C.S. Lewis wrote, “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear”. Unfortunately, Grief is not a tidy nor orderly process. As each person is unique, so is the grieving process. In the midst of the holidays, a wide range of emotions may arise therefore;...
I have recently been reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD., a book exploring the ways in which our brains, minds, and bodies both hold, and in turn, can heal trauma. Trauma may feel like a scary therapy buzzword, and it becomes tempting...
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