Mental Illness Conversation Pitfalls- 6 Things to Avoid Saying

Mental Illness Conversation Pitfalls- 6 Things to Avoid Saying

Kate Bowler, a professor at Duke Divinity School, who was diagnosed with an incurable cancer when her child was a toddler, is a gifted author. Among her best work is  8 Things Not to Say to Someone with Cancer. I can’t recommend this enough, because maybe, like me,...
A Parent’s Reckoning

A Parent’s Reckoning

We all love and are proud of our children. For some of us – or maybe many of us – with adult children, there comes a reckoning. We may not have had a clear picture of exactly how their lives would turn out, but maybe we had subconsciously created our own dreams and...
How to Enjoin My Non-joiners to Join Something (?)

How to Enjoin My Non-joiners to Join Something (?)

I had a beloved aunt who, late in her life, lost a loved one, and that loss devastated her. It was a punch from which she never recovered. We lived in different states and would often talk by phone. I tried so many things to lift her spirits, but her sadness was too...

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