This is how I discovered the importance of self care and a healthier lifestyle. For a time, I went about my days with anger and frustration simmering just below the surface. I tried to push through and dismiss my feelings, but too often they spilled over and landed on the people I cared about most. The move to a new state that we’d made just a few months prior felt like it had been the … [Read more...] about Temple of the Spirit: My Self Care Story
FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY
From One Conversation to a Life Change: A Story of Faith and Sweat
On the 1st of each month, I bring you a story of someone putting their "Faith & Sweat" into action. This month, I profile Jenny McGlone, who I have known for about seven years. Jenny McGlone remembers the conversation as they drove to Michigan for a family trip, and at the time it didn't seem like anything big. She'd had big conversations before. This was not that. Her husband, … [Read more...] about From One Conversation to a Life Change: A Story of Faith and Sweat
Unwrapping Gifts in the Messiness of Life
Barlet Wilbert's hope chest, like that of most mothers, is filled with items that parents keep from their children's early years - a plaster mold imprint of baby's hand, the outfit the newborn wore home from the hospital, a special dress worn on Easter. But her chest also holds items that no parent wishes they owned or wanted to hold on to - page after page of entries from her eldest daughter's … [Read more...] about Unwrapping Gifts in the Messiness of Life
