Archives for July 2018

Never assume that you’re stuck with the way things are.  Life changes every day, and so can you.

Just over a decade ago, Angel and I were desperately struggling to cope through the most painful season of our lives thus far — a season that included losing two loved ones to suicide and illness, family-related betrayal, job loss, financial instability, and more.  And it all happened quickly too, back-to-back.  The pain of this season knocked us down hard for a couple of years straight.  At times, we felt like we had zero strength left to push onward.  And that’s actually why we started writing on our blog in the first place.  When we were at the lowest point in our lives, we used the blog as a public outlet and accountability journal.  We wrote about our pain, our losses, the lessons we were learning, and the actions we knew we needed to hold ourselves accountable to, if we wanted to get through it all.

As we navigated our new reality one day at a time, one blog post at a time — facing the pain and investigating it, instead of distracting ourselves from it — we stumbled across morsels of strength and wisdom that we [Read more…]