It's Tough To Be A Parent Being a parent is tough. It’s just challenging try to meet the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of our children. We have an idea of how to raise our kids based on how we were brought up. Then there are our...

Out of the Darkness and Into the Light The Face of Incarceration I interviewed a man last week, Quan Huynh (pronounced-Hhhhwen). Quan experienced a pivotal event in his life at the age of 13. A painful event. The hurt and the resulting anger from it...

Depression And Anxiety Depression and Anxiety affect 40,000,000 million people in the United States alone. They are both something that has impacted me, my family and close friends. There are many causes of Depression and Anxiety. They run the spectrum...

Is It Okay To Ask For Help? The idea of having a baby can be joy-filled with the idea of how wonderful life will be. The arrival is anticipated and celebrated. The pure love we feel holding the child and the smell of a new baby’s skin can make the world...

Feeling Bulletproof Can Leave You Vulnerable There have been times I felt like I was ten feet tall and bulletproof. And for a period of time, it felt very much real. Some of those times, shortly after I had the thought of being ten feet tall and...