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Hurting Parents Can Cope
When you feel like you’ve lost control of your emotions because of your son or daughter’s behaviors and choices how can you cope? What do you do to keep your sanity if your child struggles with alcohol, drugs, self harm, suicide, gender identity issues, or a mental illness? How do you regain your balance and emotional capacity to keep going? Where do you turn when you want to quit? Should you make a pile of stones somewhere? Will that do the trick? How do you hit the “refresh” button for your heart and soul? In today’s post you will find 7 ways you can cope. And I’d love to hear what helps you.
What Can Make the Difference for Parents with Troubled Children?
Have you found yourself in the position of not liking like the person your child has become? When they're rude, hurtful, disrespectful and downright hateful it's hard not to....
Tips to Help Your Child Stop Cutting Themselves
Are you the parent of a child who cuts themselves? I had never heard of this until my daughter cut herself the first time. She was twelve. That was fifteen years ago. I was...
Frustrated Parents: Who’s listening when you’re talking?
As parents, we naturally do a lot of talking, especially to our kids. However, as they get older, become teenagers, and grow into adulthood, for many of us, it seems like we...
God’s Care for Your Struggling Child
Is your child struggling to survive? Has their well-being been compromised by an addiction to drugs or alcohol, time spent in jail or prison, a mental health issue, same-sex...
Something Weary Parents Lack
Today's blog is a re-post from February 2013. Are you a weary parent? Are you drained? Depleted? Worn out from dealing with your child's rebelliousness, alcohol and drug...
Refreshment for Parents with Broken Hearts
Today's blog is a visual one. It's purpose is to refresh the hearts of parents with broken hearts. On my weak and weary days with my daughter who struggles with substance abuse,...
Blog Hop! Why I Write
Today I'm going to do something different. I'm going to introduce you to several other bloggers. Each of them write for different reasons and has a unique style all their own....
Malaysian Airliner Crash and Hurting Parents
My heart ached when I heard the news about the tragic crash of the Malaysian Airliner. As I thought about it and prayed for the families it occurred to me that there are many...
A Wonderful Resource for Parents of Addicts
In today's post I want to introduce you to a wonderful resource - certified Life and Recovery Coach, Cathy Taughinbaugh. Her website is an incredible source of help. Her...
A Hurting Mom Shares From Her Heart
*Welcome today's guest blogger, Betsy Bradshaw. I believe you will find much encouragement and hope as she shares her story with honesty and openness. She's learned some valuable...
Hurting Parents: Tomorrow Might Have a Surprise for You
Has it been a really long time since you've seen your child? Do your eyes long to see them, your arms ache to hold them? Are they deep into addiction; in a mental hospital;...
A Message About Grace to Brokenhearted Parents
*Today's post is from my dear friend and fellow blogger, Judy Douglass. This is part of a series she wrote in 2011 on grace. She writes to Lovers of Prodigals - that's every...