Beholding Brokenness

Beholding Brokenness

An experience in Mumbai started me down the road of re-thinking my broken pottery metaphor (see Broken Pottery). I must say, it felt great to imagine myself getting more beautiful, tall, and elegant. Yet, that doesn’t seem to match my aging reality. Not entirely...
Broken Pottery

Broken Pottery

I have become like broken pottery. Ps. 31:12 At age 23, soon to be married, I lay under a mosquito net sobbing. No one in the training school I was attending in Bangalore could even begin to understand or provide comfort. Unfortunately, my devotional time fanned the...
SmartBody SmartMind Part 2

SmartBody SmartMind Part 2

In my journey out of chronic pain, I spent a solid year and a half working with the material presented in the SBSM program. They offer lifetime access to all the program material in order to emphasize the fact that coming out of pain and into wellness is a lifelong...
SmartBody SmartMind

SmartBody SmartMind

In my last post, I started looking at the change of mindset I needed as I began my healing journey. This post gets into the specific skills, which served to change my relationship with my body and my pain. In reality, it took hitting a very low point for me to...
Stuck in Overwhelm

Stuck in Overwhelm

Feeling stuck in a bad place physically or emotionally is one of the worst feelings in the world. In fact, feeling hopelessly stuck traumatizes us. Think of a small animal pinned helplessly in a hunter’s trap, unable to move and scared of the hand reaching out to...