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 | Jul 8, 2022 | emotions, faith, heart, wholeness
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not...
by Elisabeth | Jul 1, 2022 | abuse, emotions, healing, pain
Some people have hurt me in my life. Some long ago. Some recent. Some repeated. Some just once. Here’s what I recently wrote in my journal: Holy Spirit, please soften my heart towards — and — and —. I am carrying anger, sadness and fear towards each...
by Elisabeth | Jun 24, 2022 | abuse, emotions, faith, friendship, healing, heart, pain, wholeness
Several years ago, I was walking along the beach with someone I loved deeply. And she said to me, quietly, I have a secret. Okay, I said. I want to tell you but I’m not sure I should, she said. Okay, I said. We were both quiet. Then I said, nothing you tell me can...
by Elisabeth | May 27, 2022 | emotions, wholeness
I’ve written a lot of words in my day, and I have unintentionally hurt many women with them, and it breaks my heart every single time. Someone recently posted something about me on social media in response to something I had written, and I was hurt, immediately. And...
by Elisabeth | May 20, 2022 | businessy stuff, emotions, faith, wholeness
A couple years ago, I made the decision to take a risk and set up a retreat in South Carolina, where I had never been and had no connections. (Why pick South Carolina if you didn’t know anyone, a person with a brain might ask. Because there are over eighty women...
