by Elisabeth | Feb 9, 2023 | difficult marriage, divorce, healing, heart, pain, remarriage
Boyfriend #1: kinda sorta cheated on me Boyfriend #2: broke our engagement Husband #1: addiction and abuse stuff First man after marriage that I kinda sorta dated: one day after meeting me, after six months of long distance, ended things Random guy I had one date...
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 | 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,...
by Elisabeth | Oct 20, 2022 | emotions, healing, pain, wholeness
Before the word ‘trauma’ filled our mainstream vernacular, I used to think my life had not been traumatic. It had been hard, sure. There had been some really rough patches (okay, decades), yes. But was I traumatized? No. (At least, I didn’t think so and never...
