Life Challenges • Justice When you need to take action to protect your grandkids When parents fail to do what is in the best interest of a child’s physical or emotional health, then we, as grandpare... Article
Life Challenges • Grief (loss of spouse) Grief during COVID-19: We're isolated but not abandoned We’re not the first generations in history faced with the challenge of grieving alone, of finding closure without a f... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting The value of supportive friends as a single parent After my husband abandoned Janelle and me, four friends, with very different roles, met different needs, surrounded m... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Understanding the impact of divorce What parents see as a quick way out often results in emotional damage that the children will carry for 30 years or mo... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Attachment: What adoptive families need to know Now, when I teach about attachment, I tell families that every adopted child has experienced a disrupted attachment. Article
Life Challenges • Addiction Understanding sin's effect on intimacy Sin and its effects take many forms in our life. For some, this includes great brokenness in their ability to achieve... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Navigating divorce: Your needs versus your kids' needs Here are a few common compulsions, according to Hart, that you may be feeling right now, but that call for caution fo... Article
Life Challenges • Boundaries Codependency: What is it? By general definition, codependency is an adaptive coping mechanism used compulsively by those trying to find persona... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How to really listen to what your teen has to say It highlighted a gulf between my "professional" listening and what I did at home. I'd spend six or seven hours of eff... Article
Life Challenges • Sexual abuse The impact of addiction on the family of origin We can break the generational cycle of unhealthy family systems so that we can create our own healthy family system, ... Article
Life Challenges • Grief and loss Understanding grief and loss We need to acknowledge losses in our own lives; we need to validate losses in the lives of others. We need to recogni... Article
Life Challenges • Anxiety Exposing lies and uncovering God’s truth about anxiety For those who become overwhelmed by their anxious thoughts, it can be difficult to find a way out of that heightened ... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Common misconceptions about marrying again Remarriage expectations are numerous, but here are a number of myths we hear most often before couples marry again. Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: Preparing to leave your child with a caregiver When leaving children with friends or relatives for an extended period, it helps to do everything you can to remind ... Article
Life Challenges • Stress How to get past the past When things in our past remain unresolved, they go with us from relationship to relationship, from church to church, ... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Issues facing the step-family What, then, are the solutions for such a myriad of problems? Space prohibits me from addressing them in depth. Howeve... Article
Life Challenges • Self-harm Helping a family member or friend who cuts When Lori talked about cutting, she shared how friends and family can help a friend or loved one. Article
Life Challenges • Self-harm Answers for cutters from the Bible Emotional sensitivity is your blessing – and your curse; and it has become such a burden you've turned to cutting bec... Article