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my voice
Last week I was looking through old journals. And it’s funny. I saw this pattern with my voice. I had a long phase when I was writing journals, but not telling the truth. I wanted to tell the truth,...
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to cuss or not to cuss
To cuss or not to cuss, this is the question. In my last post, I substituted the word “behonky” for…someotherword. And then I started to wonder why. Why wouldn’t I just say that word over here on the...
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it never hurts to be vulnerable
I heard my husband say this to one of our kids on the phone a couple of days ago: “It never hurts to be vulnerable.” (Things I Love About My Husband, Number 4,682) We talked about it later, and I said,...
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how much good does it take?
How much good does it take, to offset all the gunk? I wonder this for my clients. For all the wounded people who come in with a world of hurt and a pack of lies eating them up inside. How many times...
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i don’t want to be a hero
This week, the C. S. Lewis fan page on Facebook served me up with this little gem of an article. Yes, folks, long, long ago and in a galaxy far, far away, I was an English major, so I am sometimes...
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it’s a wonderful life. i’m depressed.
“Real depression is being sad when everything in your life is going right.” So says Kevin Breel, a young man with everything going for him–except debilitating depression, which brought him to the...
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i’m not helping
Every once in a while, a client will tell me that therapy hasn’t done them one 8@!#&** bit of good. And when this happens, often the circumstances are a mess, and it feels good to zero people in...
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Charlie bit me
Charlie Bit Me. This is one of the first viral videos I remember from YouTube. I’m sure there were others, but I am what they call in the biz a “lagger.” I engage with new technology only under...
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blood on the floor
“If forgiveness is easy, there’s not enough blood on the floor.” Brene Brown Wow. I heard that this morning, and it just resonated with me. I have always said that the way out of our marriage hell was...
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excuses for everybody and nobody
I used to think that we all agreed on certain things. If you hit your wife, that’s bad. If you sexually molest or verbally abuse or physically neglect your child, that’s horrible. If you have a...
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