by Elisabeth | Mar 19, 2019 | divorce, healing, wholeness
A friend of mine asked me for my divorce timeline – who divorced who, the events surrounding it all. I took a few minutes to attempt to sum up about three years in a handful of bullet points and sent it to her, saying she could ask me anything else she wanted to....
by Elisabeth | Mar 12, 2019 | difficult marriage, divorce, healing, wholeness
Okay, so that’s not really a thing, but it totally should be. I was visiting with my mentor to catch up. It was completely not a “birdie session” as we call it, when I come with a problem (or twelve) in hand. But after I shared about a half dozen things, a couple...
by Elisabeth | Mar 5, 2019 | difficult marriage, divorce, wholeness
I get emails from strangers frequently asking me very specific advice about their situations. I always answer pretty much the same way: I’m so sorry for your pain [and I truly am]. My suggestion would be to find a Christian counselor, a Bible-believing church, and...
by Elisabeth | Feb 26, 2019 | difficult marriage, divorce, e-course, emotions, friendship, healing, heart, wholeness
Question: How do you stop obsessing about what your ex-husband is doing with his life? How do you detach from someone that you were literally linked to as “one flesh” for years and years? The same way you spit out the elephant you’ve been eating for years…one bite at...
by Elisabeth | Feb 12, 2019 | difficult marriage, divorce, wholeness
Question: How do I forgive my spouse, and what is the difference between forgiving him and trusting him? This is about the weightiest of all topics, isn’t it? Let me start by saying that I believe we are all called to forgive everyone for what they’ve done to us, but...
by Elisabeth | Oct 16, 2018 | divorce, faith, healing
Though I don’t believe that prayer is like having a genie in a bottle grant you all your wishes, I do believe that prayer is mysterious and even magical in its own way. It connects us to Something bigger and outside ourselves, to Someone in control of all the things...
