How to Stop Pretending and Start Helping

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). In the post for April 7, we looked at what sexual assault is, how it affects its victims and how to prevent it. We admitted that we don’t like to talk about such an uncomfortable topic. Yet we agreed that we needed to...

How to Hang On to Possible Endings

Judgmental responses seem to abound in the faith community. Have you ever heard one of these? “Just get over it.”    “You must be in sin.”    “You just want attention.”    “You don’t have enough faith.”  When my daughter left our home to live with her boyfriend, my...

Practical Tips for Dealing with Stress

A good working definition for Stress is “Any situation that keeps us from peace.” Stress begins in the mind with our reactions to external and internal experiences, but then – it travels to the body. Stress weakens our immune systems, constricts the volume of blood,...