by Christen Johnson | Jun 27, 2018 | Depression
I used to believe that depression meant lying in bed all day with the covers pulled over my head. Or not going out with friends or smiling during a funny movie scene. Over time, I have come to the realization that depression is more a suppression of feelings. It can...
by Chip Dodd | Jun 19, 2018 | Keeping Heart, Parenting with Heart, Relationships
Children really have only a few essential questions of caregivers. Will you grow with me? Will you help me become grown up? Will you live in the struggle of remaining present with me? Children need to be able to take the affirmative answers to these questions for...
by Stephen James | Jun 13, 2018 | Marriage
This is based on a homily I recently delivered at my friends’ wedding. There’s a lot here to reflect on about marriage, how it changes us, and what it calls us to become. The Judeo-Christian marriage is much more than a legal union. It’s a spiritual joining that, in...
by Chip Dodd | Jun 12, 2018 | Feelings, Longings, Parenting with Heart
I noticed the other evening just before dark the lightning bugs flickering here and there. To me, like the robin heralds spring, lightning bugs announce summer. When I was a child, some summer nights my brothers and sister and neighbor kids spent hours catching...
by Chip Dodd | Jun 6, 2018 | Keeping Heart, Leadership, Relationships, Spiritual Root System
Trust allows us to rely on something or someone. Trust has to do with the next step towards wherever we are headed. If I step off of solid ground on to a swinging bridge to cross a chasm, I am trusting that the bridge will hold me as I take the first and then the next...
by Chip Dodd | Jun 5, 2018 | Anxiety, Depression, Feelings, Longings, Needs, Relationships
According to the journalist Johann Hari in the book, Lost Connections, researchers have concluded, “humans need tribes as much as a bee needs a hive” (pg. 77). When a bee loses its hive, it goes “haywire” (pg. 90). When humans lose connection with other humans, we...
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