I was blindsided! My early parenting years didn't prepare me. No one prepared me for what was to come. It's not fair. I believed with prayer and trying to do everything "right"...
5 Faulty Expectations Parents Have of God
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A Good Goal and A Practical Tip When Your Child Has a Mental Illness
May is Mental Health Awareness month. Today's blog is designed to draw attention to mental illness and offer help to bewldered parents. "You'll get over it." "Snap out of it."...
7 Tips When Mother’s Day Hurts
Mother’s Day is tomorrow. When you have a child who struggles with addiction, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, same-sex desire, is incarcerated, or has other issues,...
Disappointed Parents: You Never Know What God Might be Up To
Life is full of surprises and disappointments. We never know what we're going get, like Forrest Gump’s momma said about a box of chocolates. Some surprises are good. We’re...
A Special Post-Easter Message for Parents in Pain
Can you believe Easter has already passed? COVID still hangs in the air leaving many of us with an uncertain future and a less than lighthearted feeling--similar to how we feel...
Easter’s 3 Messages of Hope for Hurting Parents
Easter is this Sunday. Holidays are hard when you're the parent of a child who is causing you heartache. How old they are doesn't matter. If they struggle with alcohol or drugs,...
For Parents: When Love Hurts on Valentine’s Day
Intense pain gripped my heart when I felt rejected by my daughter. What do we do when our beloved children don't love us back in the way we long for? Aren't our sons and...
Dad, Mom, I’ve Been Watching Porn by Barb Winters
Welcome today's guest blogger, Barb Winters. Barb and I met at a writer's conference this fall (I also met my last guest blogger there!). Writer's conferences are great places to...
My God Box: Help for Parents in Pain During the Holidays
Christmas hit us last week. This COVID holiday season proves extra-hard for many people, especially parents who suffer from the destructive choices and troubles of their teen or...
A Hurting Parent’s Christmas Wish List
As the mother of a daughter who has wrestled with substance use, self-injury, mental illness, and suicidal tendencies, my Christmas wish list is relatively short. If...
Holidays Can Be Hard for Parents in Pain
Dear parent in pain, we at Hope for Hurting Parents know that the holidays can be extra hard for you. I hope today's post will bring you some much-needed encouragement. "What...
Dear Hurting Parent, I Wish You Enough
I did not write this story. Someone sent it to me many years ago. I saved it because of the impact it had on me. I came across the story again when I went through some old papers...