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The Building Blocks of Hope
Adverse Childhood Experiences The presence of adversity, especially early on, can significantly affect the human brain and development. Since the late 1990s, we’ve learned about ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences, and the traces they leave behind. ACEs may be defined as potentially traumatic events that occur between the ages of 0-17,…
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Breaking the Chains of Generational Trauma
Generational Trauma We know now that newborns don’t enter into the world with a clean slate. Their emotional history begins even before they are conceived. For example, all the eggs a woman will carry form in her ovaries while she is a fetus in her mother’s womb. In other words, when your mother…
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Embrace Your Calling
I recently read a book by Michaela O’Donnell called Make Work Matter. This is a beautifully written and informative book on the nature of work and calling. It came at the perfect time in my life as I was wrestling through a crisis of work. Like many people in…
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Questioning Yourself? Consider Your Values
Freedom in your Values When I entered my late 20s, I hit a quarter-life crisis like no other. It knocked me out of my embedded rhythms and forced me to rethink choices around my relationships, career, and sources of meaning and fulfillment. Ever faced one of those? When everything you’ve…
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Holding All Things Loosely
It’s Fall of 2021 and I’m sitting here in my living room cuddled up with my two pups. I’m gazing out of our wide windows facing the backyard, watching the leaves fall from the trees. One by one, these leaves are released with the wind, gently letting go from…
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Why We Need Each Other
With feelings of isolation and mental health problems on the rise, now, more than ever, it's important to be intentional about connecting with our community. If indeed our relationships serve as the foundation for our health, happiness, and well-being, they deserve the time, energy, creativity, and sacrifice needed to strengthen…
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The Gift of Presence
I’ll be 30 soon, and by now, I’ve wrestled with the tension of decisions. In your late 20’s there’s all sorts of things to consider and choose about your life: career directions, when to start a family, what to do with your mortgage, the best way to pay off…
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A Flourishing Community
In the pages of Scripture we see a picture of a flourishing community; members embody love, service, and interdependence, as they work together for a common good
