Health
Stories of healing from physical and mental health-related issues
Then came the ROAR… The beginning of the end!
Born with a bilateral, sensory-neural and conductive hearing loss, Tracy relied on auditory training combined with visual cues and speechreading to help her to “hear” all her life. Her most severe loss was in the middle frequencies (affecting speech understanding)....
read moreLiving With Cancer
By Barbara Sneary, as told to her cousin, Verlie Edwards There will not be any ‘Pity Parties.’ This is how I have approached the last 20-plus years of living with cancer. A major part of my adult life has been spent being diagnosed with and overcoming cancer six...
read moreWhenever You’re In Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BrVYciS-PU Sandy Sandefur was born in Canada to a mother who was not ready to understand what it was like to raise a child with Cerebral Palsy. As a result, she was put up for adoption and was adopted by her mother Jean who lived in...
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By Brittney Wells “Don’t Worry God will take care of it.” Those were the last words my grandfather ever spoke to me. He had rushed across a parking lot after church that Sunday; gently wrapping his arms around me, he spoke those few words I so desperately needed to...
read moreHealing Power of Meditation
By Melinda Rothouse Instead of asking ourselves, “How can I find security and happiness?” we could ask ourselves, “Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of...
read moreA Veteran Traveler’s Roadmap to Resilience
By Caryn M. Sullivan I'd just made my First Communion when the woman who gave me life betrayed my trust and eroded the foundation that should be afforded to every child. Under the auspices of taking a vacation, my beautiful, brilliant, willful mother loaded our...
read moreThe Muck and Murk of Grief
By Cathy Knutsen My son has Neurofibromatosis, or NF, a genetic central nervous system disorder in which tumors can form on any nerve of the body. It can cause deformity, learning disabilities, scoliosis, vision disorders, mental disabilities, epilepsy, cardiovascular...
read moreListening To Those Whispers
By Molly Patrick I used to drink. A lot. I was 14 the first time I got drunk. It was at a New Year’s Eve party and my best friend and I snuck pink Carlo Rossi from a box until the numbing effect of the sweet nectar led us outside to the cool night air where we laid on...
read moreIt Is Well
By Lynette Norris On Wednesday, November 25, 2014, we were completely blindsided by the news that I had Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer with two inoperable tumors in my pelvis. I won't ever forget telling my daughters this news. I felt as though I was telling them that I was...
read moreHeartbeat of Love
By Missy Stagers Life ….the beating heart, the breath we take in, the moment we become aware of living. This is just simply about a sliver in time, when all those things came to one second and decision of whether my daughter was going to take the next step…a heart...
read moreHow Sweet This Perspective Is
By Clare Buie Chaney How Sweet This Perspective Is! “There is never enough time to do or say all the things we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can with the time that you have. Time is short and suddenly you’re not there any more.” A Christmas...
read moreSlaying Dragons
By Clare Buie Chaney “You need only arm yourself with perseverance, empowering thoughts, loved ones, and laughter and cradle yourself in the love of your God…and oh, what an adventure life will be!” I would like to share the words I have gleaned from others regarding...
read moreFate Deals The Hands
By Norma Alford Having survived breast and uterine cancer, I am occasionally asked how I coped. Although it has been almost twenty years since my ordeal began, I still have no definitive answer. I do know that fate sometimes deals us a hand we don't want to play. And...
read moreNew Normal Now
By Christy Shelton We all know that breathing is necessary to living and we all know that we do it almost without thinking. Do you know that we also stop breathing now and again and automatically start to breathe again? For Christy Shelton, breathing became something...
read moreIt’s Possible: My Journey from Obesity and Poor Health to Weight Release and Fitness
By Nalida Lacet Besson I've lost over 100 pounds by going from being a junk food vegetarian to eating a clean, whole foods, plant-based diet. Following the guidelines of Dr. Joel Fuhrman's "Eat To Live" book, changing my lifestyle, incorporating information and...
read moreSharing The Light
By Julia Benkoski I have been given last rites three times. I’ve been told that I was dying, to get Hospice and go home to die. Total darkness engulfed me like a vast, sucking whirlpool. I was suddenly alone in a room of people. My husband continued to work on his...
read moreI May Have Lupus, But Lupus Doesn’t Have Me!!!
By Kimberly Burnett "My Faith is my Cure." Today something really interesting happened to me. I went to the mall and two people told me how much they loved my hair. They loved the color and they loved my curls. They said they wished they had hair like mine. My...
read moreCROHN’S DISEASE: What a Pain in the Butt
By Caroline Kessler Salcedo Imagine waking up in the middle of the night at 16 years of age, and feeling like someone just stabbed you near your right hipbone, but there's no blood. Is this a nightmare? You run to your parents’ room and have them take you to the...
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