depression, Family, health, Parenting, suicide
Connection. Closeness. Joy. Laughter. Rest. Abundance. At Restoring Relationships, we’re starting to talk about how we yearn for these things, and how the holidays can be so painful because yearning is NOT the same as experiencing. We’re talking about how,...
Family, gratitude, Parenting, vulnerability
Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and it brings to mind a story of gratitude. I remember taking my then sixteen-year-old on an international journey two years ago. Out of my husband and I, I had drawn what was considered by most to be the “long straw” -the chosen...
Family, Parenting, suicide, Teens
September was National Suicide Prevention Month. It was also the month that my small, tight-knit school community lost a beautiful and loved young man to suicide. We’ve been talking and crying and comforting each other like this: that although there are many...
