I’m a recovering over-achiever, so this episode got personal. I literally have to “work” at not overworking! Denise Walsh is like that, too - she is a former clinical psychologist turned multimillionaire mom-preneur. We talk in this...
Today she would be 40. I was going to visit her grave – about 15 minutes from my house – and got too busy. Or maybe I’m just avoiding. I don’t know… I do know that five and a half years after my sister’s suicide,...
The following is some recent correspondence between myself and a high school friend. I share it because the “I’m not doing enough”/ “I can’t get on top of everything that needs to be done” frustration she...
Statistics for teen females in the U.S.: Adolescent girls are twice as likely as boys to develop depression (Mayo Clinic Foundation, 2006) 1 in 3 high school girls thinks about suicide at least once in a 2 week period (Best Friends Foundation,...
On April 29th, 2005 five years ago today the South Salt Lake Police Department called to inform our family that my sister Shawna’s body had been found in a hotel room – due to an intentional drug overdose. As a family, we sobbed...
Today is Easter. All week I’ve been reflecting on something I’d seen in a different light during last Sunday’s lesson. I teach the 9 and 10 year-olds…I swear they feed me more than I could ever attempt to feed them. Anyway,...
Today I learned of the birth of my little “niece”, Brianna Kathleen. I have the niece in quotes because technically she’s not my niece. At least not by traditional familial standards. In my heart, though, she most definitely...
Oh, how my heart aches today for my friend whose 17-year-old daughter just took her own life. Jessica was (is) a beautiful girl with so much love inside, so much kindness and empathy. An empathy born of her own struggles with despair and hopelessness....
For a few years, I’ve been researching, pondering upon, and even obsessively sketching the “divine ordering” of the female soul. (Males, I don’t mean to leave you out of this – most everything I write about will...
