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Healthy Boundaries and Saying Goodbye These last few months have been really challenging for me — or I should say, the last few years have been really distressing. I had this uneasy emotional feeling for a very long time. I knew something wasn’t right, but what? What was I struggling with? Every time my children… Read more

Be the Light My dear friends, I haven’t posted for a while because my heart is so heavy over the violence and the toxicity that has been happening in the last month or so.  It almost felt disrespectful to speak in any context other than to pray. One morning, as I sipped my pumpkin spice… Read more

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. ~ Proverbs 9:10 Did you ever wondered what fear of the Lord meant?  For the longest time, and because I had no access to the priest’s sermon during my childhood, I could not quite understand why the… Read more

I grew up in a toxic environment. My mother was a single mom, working full time and raising four children, two deaf, — by herself.  During that time, I was sexually abused.  My father wasn’t very available. I don’t think my mother had the time to learn sign language nor fully grasped the need for my… Read more

I am fifty-one.  Forty-five years of tears, fear, heartbreak, wondering, asking, begging, praying, and feeling so alone. So much numbness and pain, often at the same time. I tried so hard to step forward but always wondered how. Where was I to go next? I was desperate for healing. Finally, by the grace of God,… Read more