Words to Choose – Words to Use

What can we say when words are hard to find?

Why are the most important words we need to share, sometimes the hardest to find? It’s not because we lack knowledge. The dictionary is just as full of words today as it was last week, or in the last century. In fact, we make up new ones all the time – to fit our growing […]

Contact: Part 3

Sharing: With Whom, When, and Where?

Sharing our hopes, dreams, brainstorms, observations, light-hearted experience, and humor can be FUN. We are wired for connection. Our joys can, and do, seem to multiply when shared … and our troubles can indeed feel smaller when divided among friends. … But, how do we make real connections? Conversation (verbal, gestured, or written) is the […]

Contact: Part 2

Why Give Them Something To Talk About ?

Our volunteer stood silently, facing the class with a military stance: Attention! He avoided eye contact, and put his ‘poker face’ on. He waited. Sixty seconds later he breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and sat down. I had asked students if it was possible for two people to be in sight of each other, […]

Let’s Get Social

You’re Invited !  Join the adventure in the next category of discovery with our model of Bio-Psycho-SOCIAL-Spiritual Rehabilitation – for Depression and Anxiety. At heart – we know that we need each other. We are divinely designed to be social – to be connected with our God and with each other. What we may not […]

Blessings in Disguise ?

Did you know that stress and anxiety can come in camouflage – and that if they successfully invade – without recognition, the door may be left ajar for other negative emotions to sneak in as well?   As told in this short story scene: The breath she hadn’t realized she was holding, escaped in a long […]