Category: healing
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How WeedING Helps Me Relax and Sleep Well
Hello, tender friends! Yes, weedING. You don’t need to smoke weed to get that special feeling, just stick your hands in the soil. Remember what it felt like, as a kid, to be the good kind of tired? Not the depleted caffeine crashrunningaroundonempty feeling of adulthood, but that blissful sleep you used to experience after…
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The Day I Lost My Fear of Demons
Hello, tender friends! It turns out that Anthony could not take the day off of work today for our day trip, so here we are. Even though I’m pretty far out in my healing, this is hard to think about. My arms and chest feel jittery, like electricity is going through them. But I believe…
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Can Decluttering Heal You?
Hello, tender friends! Clean lines. Potted plants. A single tulip in a vase. I like the aesthetics of most minimalist homes, but could there be more to it than visual pleasure? Last week I checked out Marie Kondo’s book, “Kurachi at Home” from the library down the road. This quote arrested my attention: “One curious…
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How I Meet With God in the Morning
Hello, tender friends, and happy Memorial Day! As the spring moves toward summer here in SW Virginia, I’m relishing each morning. Mist rises from the ground in the cool gray dawn. The world remains quiet. I’ve never made it in my travels to the Holy Land, but my own back yard feels hallowed. I complete…
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How The Lord’s prayer Helped Me Begin Healing+4 Lessons
Hello tender friends! This is a tough post today. Why doesn’t God heal everyone? Why do some people, even those strong in the faith who stand firmly on his Word, not get their healing? When going through my health struggles after Jacob’s birth (I normally refer to him as Cub, but his full name is…
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Kitchen Creations
Hello tender friends! Remember when Sheryl Crow crooned that the first cut is the deepest in 2003? That song had been done and redone by many before her, but I was in my last year of high school at the time and thought she had written that song to describe my recent failed love. I…
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Lenten Surprises from Yahweh
To be honest, this was really hard to write. The ending is happy, but I’m feeling a bit off-brand from my spirited “Hello, tender friends!” after this excavation. Please forgive me. The Holy Spirit lined up multiple confirmations that I was supposed to work on my posture for Lent. With these confirmations, I knew that…
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Why I’m a Fermenting Fool
Oh tender friends, this confession is embarrassing. I wish I could claim to have been on this train early, but I wasn’t. But this has a happy ending, as one of the lessons learned is that inspiration for self-improvement is everywhere, even in chance meetings at the park. Why ferment? Fruits and vegetables have naturally…
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Monday Motivation
Hello tender friends! I have some scientific proof that you are more powerful than you probably know! And who doesn’t need a shot of power on Monday? The director of the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is Douglas Wallace, PhD. His research encourages and stuns: “Mitochondria generate 90%…
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How My Mom Beat Cancer Without Chemo
Hello tender friends! Imagine if getting a massage- a relaxing, enjoyable massage- could be part of your healing from cancer. It’s such a contradiction to the grueling methods we typically imagine, but that was part of how my mom beat cancer. Cancer does not have to be a death sentence. Multiple healing modalities exist that…
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