This is one of the more difficult memories that surfaces for me every year as winter fades into spring. The first picture is from May 1, 1997. I’m with my parents and my baby sister outside Sterling McCall Toyota in Houston. My dad finally decided what kind of truck he wanted to buy, as partContinueContinue reading “Healing is a process: How my life changed the day my dad crashed into an 18-wheeler head on”
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Being genuine on the Internet without oversharing
I am learning more about being myself on the internet. This is a something that I want to bring into balance, just like other aspects of my life as I’m healing. I don’t ever want to stop creating, thinking, and feeling, but as a Real Adult™ now in a professional job, I have to thinkContinueContinue reading “Being genuine on the Internet without oversharing”
Book Review: Spiritual Sobriety by Elizabeth Esther
I love so much of Elizabeth Esther’s writing because what she says fits my experiences in unhealthy churches. I preordered her book Spiritual Sobriety: Stumbling back to faith when good religion goes bad in spring of last year, around the same time that I interviewed her on my blog. Recently I re-read my copy beforeContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Spiritual Sobriety by Elizabeth Esther”
Coffee with ghosts: Learning how to stop listening to negative voices in my past
I asked myself why I stopped writing last year and the answers were revealing. Some days, there are just too many ghosts. It’s difficult to imagine typing out what you’re really thinking when the other half of your brain is imagining another person reading what you write and mocking you for being sentimental. Don’t listenContinueContinue reading “Coffee with ghosts: Learning how to stop listening to negative voices in my past”
Book review: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
I got this book from a giveaway over at SpiritualAbuse.org a couple of summers ago, when I was blogging about leaving fundamentalism. Stolen Innocence is Elissa Wall’s memoir of leaving the fundamentalist Mormon church (FLDS) as an adult. She was told to marry one of her cousins when she was only 14. Elissa gives a good historyContinueContinue reading “Book review: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall”
Eleanor Skelton 