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Mental Illness Part 7 – What Parents Need to Know About Major Depression
If your son or daughter has been diagnosed suffering with depression, this is for you. The main mental health issues, also called brain disorders are: Major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, among other disorders, are robbing millions of their quality of life. Read this blog to learn the causes, symptoms, treatment and recovery expectations from a mom who understands.
A Techique Parents in Pain Need to Learn
Are you a parent who has walked through turbulent waters with your child? Maybe things are better today, yet something's "off", strained. Is it difficult to have a healthy...
Five Things I Learned About Parenting From Cooking
Are you a parent who wishes there was a fail-proof formula for raising children that would guarantee the results you were aiming? How I wish there was a formula to follow that...
Something Parents in Pain Hate to Do
Something I hate to do is wait, especially when I'm waiting for something I want to have happen. I can wait for a long time with no problem at all for something I'm dreading: A...
When Love is A Four Letter Word for a Parent
I am the mother of a twenty-seven year old daughter who has struggled for years with a drug and alcohol addiction, cutting, brain disorders (bipolar and more) and suicidal...
Is There Hope for Hurting Parents in the Christmas Story?
Are you a mom or dad in deep pain today due to the behaviors and choices, emotional and mental anguish of your child? Find comfort in knowing that with God anything is possible....
One Thing Hurting Parents Need to Remember
Parents whose children are breaking their hearts often feel like their pain defines them. Do you ever wonder "what kind of book would the story of your life be? You might think...
7 Questions Parents Need to Ask Themselves When Things Go Wrong
When things started to go wrong in your child's life, even though you gave your best and did all you knew to do, did you start asking "why?" Why is this happening to me? Why...
2 More Questions to Help Parents in Pain Survive the Holidays
The holiday season can be a very difficult time for parents whose sons and daughters are engaging in destructive, unwise behaviors or suffer with a mental illness. In my last...
3 Questions to Help Parents in Pain Survive the Holidays
The holiday season can be a very difficult time for parents whose sons and daughters are engaging in destructive, unwise behaviors or suffer with a mental illness. They'd rather...
Storms in Parenting
Have you ever been startled awake in the middle of the night from a phone call with bad news about your son or daughter? If you're reading this, like me, you probably have. One...
Parents in Pain and The Biggest Loser
I enjoy the TV show, The Biggest Loser. I find it inspirational to see people make so many changes in their lives. You walk with them each week as they face their weaknesses....
Healing Words for Those Who Hurt
Over the last eight years of my parenting journey I have suffered many wounds to my heart and soul. More times than I can count I've been in great need of deep, inner healing due...