May is Mental Health Awareness Month, therefore my blogs will be focusing on these issues. Ten years ago when my daughter was first diagnosed with a mental health issue, I knew...
Helping Parents Understand Borderline Personality Disorder
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Bipolar Diagnosis for Your Child? This Book Will Help!
Do you have a son or daughter who has been given the mental health diagnosis of bipolar? Was it hard for you to believe it could be true? Did you wonder what this would mean for...
Eight Ways to Tell if Your Child Lying
Have you struggled to believe your child would actually lie to you? Were you like me, always surprised when you caught your son in a lie? When you discovered your daughter's...
Great Book to Help Hurting Parents Pray
Have you ever felt like you didn't know how to pray for your child? Have you experienced sleepless nights and tortuous days that left you at a loss to know what to ask God for?...
When Parents Rescue and Enable
A parent recently asked us about rescuing someone who was drowning. Drawing an analogy from this, they wondered what the difference is between rescuing and enabling? What would...
Great Book for Brokenhearted Parents
My husband and I have had our hearts broken many times over one of our children. Being parents of a daughter who struggles with addiction, mental health issues and suicidal...
The Three A’s of Difficult Parenting
Have you wondered what to do about your son or daughter? Are they driving you crazy with their behaviors and choices? Do you feel like you're always off-balance trying to keep up...
What do Hurting Parents and Martin Luther King have in common?
I've been thinking about this all week. What do hurting parents and Martin Luther King have in common? I'm referring to parents whose children are making destructive, even...
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...
Recent Shooting in DC – Help for Families of the Mentally Ill Who Refuse Treatment
The terrible shooting in DC last week was shocking on many levels. One that really struck me as a parent of a child who suffers with a mental illness is that the shooter was...
What Parents Need to Know About Suicide, Part 2
Do you love someone who struggles with suicidal thoughts? Have they made an attempt, maybe more than once? Do you live in fear for their lives? If this is yoru child, it is your...
Hurting Parents Feel Crazy!
If you are a parent who is hurting due to the self-destructive choices your child is making, or if they suffer from a mental illness and the repercussions of these things are...