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Dear Reader, How are you? Have you ever looked back at a relationship, career move, friendship, or major life decision and wondered, What was I thinking? I know I have. Sometimes our choices aren’t made from a place of wisdom, confidence, or clarity. Sometimes they’re made from a place of pain. One of the most powerful yet often overlooked influences on our decision-making is abandonment. Abandonment isn’t always physical. It can come through divorce, rejection, neglect, emotional...
Dear Reader, How are you? I raised my two youngest sons completely without their father. I often felt the weight of trying to fill a role I wasn’t designed to fill. We are mothers, and as much as we try, we can’t be "daddy” as well. Nature just doesn’t work that way. But over the years, I learned that even though we are mothering solo, we don't have to parent alone. I discovered how to co-parenting with God. In the latest episode of SoloMom! Talk, I dive deep into how we can empower our sons...
Dear Reader, How are you? If you’ve read Day 6 of my devotional, Courage to Believe, you already know this story. But it’s a moment that has replayed in my mind because it changed how I view my role as a mother forever. So I had a long, tough day at work, followed by a brutal two-hour subway commute home. I was exhausted and running entirely in survival mode. I entered the front door, desperate for a moment of peace. Instead, I walked ‘smack dab’ into my kitchen and was ambushed by a messy,...