How to Build Resilience in the Face of a Pandemic

How to Build Resilience in the Face of a Pandemic

While panic is in surplus, many other resources are becoming increasingly difficult to secure. Grocery shelves are quickly emptied, trips to stores are far scarcer, budgets are cinching, and desperate hands all grasp for the same goods. So, I want to share a recipe...
The Link Between Creativity & Trauma

The Link Between Creativity & Trauma

Both fragmented and fused with the hands of experience, the creative mind isn’t so different from a stained-glass window. A mosaic of memory and morrow. Splinters of what was and what could be. Colored moments and shards of emotion, all patterned together within a...
A Mom’s Survival Guide When Faced With Adversity

A Mom’s Survival Guide When Faced With Adversity

She’d always been a mama’s girl, and now you could see she was afraid to climb in my bed with me.  I thought she was going to cry, and my first instinct was to try and distract her, the way you do with kids when they fall and bleed a little.  So, I immediately looked...
How to Stay Positive in the Face of Adversity

How to Stay Positive in the Face of Adversity

I sat in the cold, dim room in my hospital bed looking down at the leg that the doctors had just told me they were going to have to amputate.  My spirit was nearly broken and I could actually feel myself spiraling down into a dark hole so fast, as if I had no other...