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What God Spoke to Me at Twenty-Two About “Thanks” and Why it Remains Relevant!
Happy Thanks-Giving! It’s that time of year…our hearts are open and we are more prone to “give thanks” than in any other season. For those of faith, gratitude is a component of our religious traditions and should be a part of the worshippers daily life. In Judiaism...
Resilient Responses Towards Change
Productive, Life-Altering Change can happen when we Make a Decision and Stick With it!Two years ago a combination of circumstances finally led my good friend, Melanie, to sober up and leave behind 20+ years of drug addiction, domestic violence and...
Divorced Relationships: How to Bounce Back from Brokenness
I lay there immobilized. Stunned. The words fired off were tantamount to being shot, hit with what felt like 50,000 V of electricity, rendering me utterly useless.Unlike the emergency crew that came to administer compassion and comfort when paralysis took...
A God Who Hates
Hi Friends,If you’ve been reading my blog this year you know I’ve been writing chronologically from the chapters of my book and relating in new ways the “resiliencies” that have helped me to bounce back from life’s hardships.I’ve shared with you how...
7 Tools to Transform Toxic Anxiety into Sacred Anxiety
Did you know?According to the national Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders are deemed the most common mental illness in the United States. Anxiety disorders cost our country 65 billion per year, including 34 billion in lost productivity. More...
7 Steps to Slay Self-Pity
Self-pity constantly rears its ugly head and we have to learn how to slay it to be a more resilient person. There are multiple steps we can take to conquer its seductive allure. In the fall of 1982, now paralyzed and rolling into a new normal, I found...
From Magic to Malady and Meaning
Remington Woof! 2015-2019 The MagicI was fortunate to have grown up in a home where love, support, and a healthy family system produced confident kids. For the majority of my developmental years we lived in Orange, California, whose neighboring city,...
When Life Instantly and Irreversibly Changes
It is a paralyzing moment when trauma and loss shocks then freezes our minds and bodies into a zombie-like existence. Our equilibrium is shattered and life comes undone; whether it is the loss of a job, or worse, the loss of a loved one.Suffering is...
Where is God in our Suffering?
Where is God in our Suffering? Welcome to my inaugural bi-monthly blog called Turning Setbacks into Comebacks. I hope to combine my thoughts (and those far more brilliant than I) around the topics of suffering and loss, strength and resilience. In a short...
What do McDonald’s and Happy Meals have to do with Hope?
Love the McDonald's commercial for the Ronald McDonald's House Charities. Little kids are on a school bus looking inside their "Happy Meals". One cute kid quips, "There's something NEW inside your happy meal; it's called Hope". "Hope," one kid asks. "I don't see any...
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