Mental Health and Healing

Life is Like a Camera

Life Is Like a Camera: Keep Taking Shots Life has a funny way of teaching us lessons, often in the most unexpected ways like thinking Life is Like a Camera. One of my favorite metaphors is this: "Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives,… Continue reading Life is Like a Camera

Mental Health and Healing

What Happens When Your Pitcher of Life Crashes

What Happens When Your Pitcher of Life Crashes Life is like a glass pitcher from the 1960s—meant to hold lemonade, sun tea, or even flowers. From the moment we are born, we have a purpose, just as a pitcher is meant to hold liquid. As we grow, we fill that pitcher with our dreams, aspirations,… Continue reading What Happens When Your Pitcher of Life Crashes

Mental Health and Healing, Quotes

Not All Storms Disrupt

Not All Storms Disrupt—Some Clear Your Path Life can often feel like an unpredictable storm—chaotic, overwhelming, and full of uncertainty. We face challenges, setbacks, and painful experiences that make us question the direction we’re heading. But here’s an important truth: not all storms are meant to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path… Continue reading Not All Storms Disrupt

Faith in Hard Places

Happiness Versus Joy

Happiness versus joy. Is it perspective or something more? What is happiness? A wise man once said that happiness is based on circumstances, and circumstances can ebb and flow like the tides of the ocean. What is joy? JOY comes from the Lord. That phrase has stuck with me many years later. We are not… Continue reading Happiness Versus Joy

Faith in Hard Places

What Do You Want To Do?

What Do You Want To Do? This is a question that I would pose to my ladies when I worked as the inpatient residential therapist, "What do you want to do when you grow up?". They would come to our facility, at their lowest of lows, broken with little hope. My job was to give… Continue reading What Do You Want To Do?

Faith in Hard Places, Quotes

Let Them by Cassie Phillips

Let Them by Cassie Phillips Let Them by Cassie Phillips is a poem I read on social media. I first read it during a chaotic season in my life. Let’s be real—most days feel chaotic. I had just realized that some “friends” weren’t truly friends and that people can't always be trusted. I already struggled… Continue reading Let Them by Cassie Phillips

Guest Stories, Mental Health and Healing, Suicide Awareness and Prevention

Memories with My Mom

Memories with My Mom   Memories with My Mom. My earliest memories of my mom are when she would rock me and sing silly old songs that would make me giggle. We would play hide and seek, sit outside on the glider, and swing for a long time.  We had snuggled in the bed, played… Continue reading Memories with My Mom

Guest Stories, Mental Health and Healing

To the Person That’s Been There Through it All

  To the Person That’s Been There Through it All To the Person That’s Been There Through it All Thank you And thank you for caring Thank you for sharing And thank you for loving me When I felt that no one ever could   Cared for Me When No One Else Could You didn’t… Continue reading To the Person That’s Been There Through it All