Sometimes parents don't like who their children have become. They're rude, disrespectful, mean, and spew hateful towards us. We can't believe who they are today. What can make a...
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Three Strategies to Help Hurting Parents
Hurting parents feel helpless. We wonder what we can do to survive the pain and trauma we've experienced with our teen or adult children. How do we live our lives again. Are we...
When Thanksgiving Day Hurts a Parent’s Heart
Thanksgiving is coming soon, the official start of the holiday season (although every year it seems to start sooner), but many people don't look forward to this time of year....
Heartbroken Parents Need Resilience
Resilience. Heartbroken parents need it. What is resilience? The ability to recover or adjust quickly after setbacks or difficulties. To bounce back after going through a tragedy...
6 Truths to Help Hurting Parents in the Storms of Life
Startled awake out of a deep sleep by a fierce storm, I couldn't get back to sleep. Between crashes of thunder and flashes of lightning, I realized something. What I experienced...
Suicide: The Shameful Family Secret
What impacts countless lives worldwide every day sending out waves of pain and suffering? Suicide, one of the most shameful family secrets. Suicide devastates families, breaks...
My Child Might Be Suicidal – What Can a I Do? Part 1
Suicide is a growing problem among teens and young adults, especailly since the pandemic. Suicide attempts among teens and young adults nearly doubled over the last 10 years...
A Question Parents in Pain Need to Ask Themselves
If you are a parent in pain with a son or daughter whose choices or challenges have broken your heart, your world revolves around them. The worries of having a child with mental...
Hurting Parents Need Peace with the Unknown Outcome
In the beginning of my experience as a hurting parent, I struggled with my intense desire to know how my daughter's journey with alcohol, drugs, depression, self harm, suicide...
Parents in Pain Need to Make Time for Respite
With Father's Day coming my dad has been on my mind. He lived until he was 92 and was a precious man. One of a kind. The best father a kid could ever hope to have. He lived a...
Encouraging Suggestions for Parents in Pain
Parents in pain struggle with tremendous amounts of discouragement. Watching our children's lives ebb away because of alcohol or drugs, mental illness, repeated incarceration, or...
Can Broken-hearted Parents Find Victory?
My daughter was on the brink of disaster. Defeated, helplessness overwhelmed me. I get forgot how far I'd already come as the mother of a young adult daughter who had many...