by Sara | May 20, 2019 | Book News & Recs, Navigating Healing & Recovery, Uncategorized
Annndddd, I’m back! I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t resist sharing the fiction books that have been healing to me as I’ve written Light After Darkness, and healed and grieved my chronic illness. (To read the nonfiction version, click here.) I know these are more...
by Sara | May 13, 2019 | Book News & Recs, Navigating Healing & Recovery
Good morning, everyone! I just wanted to pop in and say congratulations to the giveaway winner (chosen at random by Rafflecopter ? )… so, congratulations, Cheyenne! I’ll be emailing you with more info shortly. Also, as yesterday was Mother’s day, I...
by Sara | May 6, 2019 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
“Those things that broke your sweet heart into a million fragmented pieces were never meant to harden you.” -Jennifer Renee Watson, Freedom! I’ve never gone through a break-up. I’ve never had a parent or sibling or close friend die. My parents aren’t divorced. But my...
by Sara | Apr 22, 2019 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Navigating Healing & Recovery
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples...
by Sara | Mar 29, 2019 | Book News & Recs, Detoxing, Living With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
The last month or two, we’ve been talking about how our pain is often a microphone (as Levi Lusko puts it in his book Through The Eyes of a Lion) and what to do with that microphone. You can find parts one, two, and three by clicking on them, but today I want to wrap...
by Sara | Mar 4, 2019 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Navigating Healing & Recovery
“Pain is a microphone,” Levi Lusko writes in his book Through The Eyes of Lion, “And the more it hurt, the louder you get.” Wow, is that such a powerful — and true — statement. Are you currently in pain? Physical or emotional? I am. And recently, more and more, I’ve...
