Omg. I woke up thinking about exactly this. How holding a clear and healthy boundary, within my family of origin(and marriage) gets labelled “holding a…
To state that my feelings about and reasons for attending yesterday’s service for my mother are messy and confusing, is an understatement. At this moment, this…
Dear Mother, You must be pleased that I married someone emotionally and morally similar to you and to my sister? And equally contented that YOUR…
People say don’t use social media to post your personal problems. I use social media to post about abuse because it is a social problem.…
Trying to surrender my current prayer of “Make it fucken stop” for “PLEASE ?? Help me become willing to accept the things I cannot change and to…
I have never, not ever, not once in 50 years had a moment of resolution with my mother or sister in which each of the…
Yesterday, overly tired from waking at 4am, unable to return to sleep. I ruined myself from 4-8am, with recycled, if not hysterical thoughts of my older…
I am grateful (though broken hearted) that I was able to tell my older son (S1) and his father, in no uncertain terms, that I would…
Today’s service centered around Pilate and Jesus: Kingdoms in Conflict. John 18:33 – 18:37(quite possibly incorrectly notated-whatev) I begin by declaring that: I, in no…
While I am enjoying the peace and slow pace of an undemanding Thanksgiving Break for myself, my heart is so fucking heavy from what family…