healing

  • God’s Rest and Healing

           Throughout my life, I can reflect back on the ways in which I have been privileged to have many different teachers and how many of my most important lessons in life have come from unexpected places. One continual, and… Continue reading

    God’s Rest and Healing
  • Returning

    Tiny baby steps are the only way out. The only way out of a depressive episode is to take the tiniest steps back to yourself.  It doesn’t make sense, this hazy shuffle; it shouldn’t work, it doesn’t feel like it… Continue reading

    Returning
  • Swim Diagonally

    The refrain of “name and date of birth” requests were constant while I was in the hospital; during my 11 day stay, I probably recounted the story of how I got sick and the progression of my hospital hopping 30… Continue reading

    Swim Diagonally
  • Reflection: Telling stories

    In Day Twenty Six, the patient spent about 30 minutes telling me stories. Not stories of how she found herself in the hospital, not stories of what she was going to do when she got out of the hospital, but… Continue reading