by Elisabeth | Feb 16, 2023 | emotions, faith, heart, wholeness
I wrote the following post towards the end of my first marriage. Part of me doesn’t even recognize let alone remember that version of me and the amount of pain I was living in. But when we are in pain, and when things don’t seem to be getting better for a...
by Elisabeth | Feb 2, 2023 | emotions, faith, healing, heart, pain, wholeness
Back when my first marriage was hanging by a thread, had someone said to me, We need you to agree to the following: eight adults will know every detail of your life and marriage; you will have to meet with two counselors, two mentors and a mediator weekly, along with...
by Elisabeth | Jan 19, 2023 | emotions, healing, wholeness
When I was in seventh grade, I was imagining things. I was imagining that my mom was unsafe when I was at school, so I would pretend to be sick to stay home and take care of her. And when I was home alone, I would imagine that someone else was in our apartment with...
by Elisabeth | Jan 5, 2023 | abuse, emotions, healing, heart, judgment, pain, wholeness
For most of my life, I’ve felt just a tad less normal than most people. Less put together. Way needier. A huge disappointment. Less capable of taking care of myself. Not a grown-up. Weak. Lazy. Pretty much a screw-up. As if every day, at the end of my day, I could do...
by Elisabeth | Dec 15, 2022 | emotions, faith, holidays
I’ve been reading the first two chapters of the Gospel of Luke this month as I prepare my heart for Christmas. And I found something that surprised me. In the one hundred and thirty-two verses of those two chapters, an angel tells three different people to not be...
by Elisabeth | Nov 10, 2022 | emotions, friendship, healing, heart, judgment, pain, wholeness
I dreamt that I ran into Beth Moore and she suggested we have a slumber party. Obviously. And as we were lounging around in our pink matching jammies (because why not?), she asked me, “If you could have anything in the world right now, what would it be?” My automatic,...
