by Elisabeth | Nov 24, 2022 | difficult marriage, divorce, holidays
Are you in a hard marriage? Are you separated? Are you divorced? Are you a single mom? Are you dreading holiday gatherings? Are you dreading not having plans for Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or New Year’s Eve? Are you dreading not being able to do...
by Elisabeth | Jul 15, 2022 | abuse, divorce, emotions, healing, pain
The aftereffects of living under abuse are long and complicated. It’s a bit like a brain tumor that has wrapped itself around the brainstem and all throughout your skull. There’s not just one easy way to undo all that’s been done. There’s no off switch. One of my...
by Elisabeth | Feb 25, 2022 | dating, divorce, healing, wholeness
When I wrote about sex and the single Christian girl, I cringed the entire time I wrote it. But I look back now and have to laugh a little bit because (and I admitted this then) it’s super easy to talk about something when it’s only a theory. Because I wrote it when I...
by Elisabeth | Feb 18, 2022 | abuse, Church, divorce
Pretty much everyone who has ever been married or found themselves in a hard marriage or on the other side of divorce – in Christian culture – has heard someone tell them that “God hates divorce”, pulling from Malachi 2:16 (NLT) that says, “’For I hate...
by Elisabeth | Feb 11, 2022 | divorce, healing, 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...
by Elisabeth | Oct 8, 2021 | difficult marriage, divorce, pain, wholeness
A few years ago, I found out that a former member of one of my private Facebook groups – who left because she wasn’t feeling as supported as she felt she needed – took her life, leaving behind two children, family, friends. I’m not sure what to do with...
