Tag: be the thing I want to find
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Warrior reflections💐
Being sick has been a “severe mercy ” for me. That’s from a book title that I saw when I was reading AGrief Observed by CS Lewis. My body grows weaker and more puny, while my spirit has just keeps getting stronger and better! Like Joni Earekson Tada. Or Keanu Reeves. Or WonderWoman. #bethethingiwishihad…
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Insomnia and nightmares.
Not anyone’s fave part of grief and trauma work. There is the pain of trauma that I had no choice about. I was just following orders, I was young. I was vulnerable. Then there is the pain of trauma that was my own darn fault. (Both hurt. Just different. ) I found a passage in…
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Bed ridden: end of the world or…?
Best thing to ever happen to my parenting and marriage 💑 It’s my heart. Not the MSThank you for asking dear.Yes hubby’s planning to be my caregiver fulltime through this Oregon Spousal Care program.It’s what God has said we can handle. I trust Him. I have my few folks that I get to help through…
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Parent guilt 😔 😟 🙁 😥 😞
The accuser likes to shame me about stuff I’ve done wrong with my DID. like leaving my son at the bank for two hours when he was ten and buying a gross of light bulbs across town before I woke up. Like losing my temper and shaking my daughter when she was in middle school…
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DAMP
I found out how my babies went all night, occasionally, with a wet diaper, you guys! It CAN be done. My hubby has been such a trooper with my surgery recovery 💙 but I can tell he’s getting tired. He can sleep anywhere and almost instantly. But. He’s relies on that. If he doesn’t get…
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R.E.S.P.E.C.T. 💐
Sometimes the message we receive as women from the Bible can get garbled by our stuff. Just “shut up and forgive him” is not healthy or what God was after; do you agree? I don’t know everything, and I respect your journey, dear reader…but what God has been helping me to reframe is how I…