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 • Grief (loss of spouse) Grieving with hope We are pleased to share with you a video produced by a group of Canadian families who want to share their experiences... Article
Parenting • Special needs How to cope when your child is born with a disability What do you do with the swell of emotion? How do you handle the news and still operate as a good parent of a newborn?... Article
Parenting • Stress Caring for yourself when your child is in crisis When our child is hurting, we hurt too. If you're distracted by worry, or wondering if you'll ever find joy again, he... Article
Parenting • Grief and loss Coming together as a family over the loss of a pet Rather than swallowing our grief and pretending it wasn’t real, we embraced each other as well as our loss. Article
Marriage • Prodigals 5 ways couples can respond to a crisis God wants us to cocoon together as husband and wife. Doing so strengthens a relationship, eases heartache and deepens... Article
Life Challenges • Grief and loss Living with chronic illness Chronic illness affects everything in life and everyone close by. It begs the question, “Can any good come of sufferi... Article
Parenting • Grief and loss Helping children grieve for a loved one As difficult as this time may be for you, what you model for your children now is very important. It will very likely... Article
Parenting • Grief and loss When a loved one dies: Understanding grief in children Without understanding, we can mistakenly conclude a child is indifferent to the loved one’s death, or is inconvenient... Article
Parenting • Grief (loss of spouse) Dos and don'ts of helping a teen after a breakup How can you promote healing? While you can’t guard your teen from a broken heart, you can help her move from rejectio... Article
Parenting • Grief and loss The grief of watching kids outgrow their childhood Sometimes it feels like a low-grade grief – not the overwhelming kind you get when you lose someone for good – but th... Article
Marriage • Infertility Navigating painful reminders when you’re struggling with infertility I couldn’t escape the constant reminders of what I hoped for and didn’t have. Why did it seem that every other couple... Article
Faith and Culture • Grief and loss The rocky road to recovery after a near-fatal accident But none of us realized that home as we knew it would never be the same. The accident had changed all our lives. Irre... Article
Parenting • Miscarriage Understanding miscarriage The physical and emotional pain of miscarriage make a woman more dependent on family and friends. It's helpful if she... Article
Marriage • Miscarriage Mourning in marriage after the loss of a child Where does a couple begin? How can two grieving hearts find comfort in each other? Is divorce inevitable after a fami... 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