by skimhenson | Jul 13, 2021 | Dead for a Decade, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“If you spend your life denying you have a problem, you’ll end up denying yourself a life.” Unknown Before my mom’s brother moved in with us, she had him institutionalized several times for depression, suicide threats, and bizarre behavior like running around naked in...
by skimhenson | Jul 12, 2021 | Dead for a Decade, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change, and deny our emotions … ” Debbie Ford Until a friend private messaged that she’d been reading my blog for months, I had no idea how long I’d struggled...
by skimhenson | Jul 8, 2021 | On The Other Side of Trying Hard, Trying Hard Didn't Work
“Sometimes the only ‘work’ required is trusting God to do the work.” Unknown Daily I question my book topic, chapter titles, and whether or not any of this matters enough to write. Before I headed upstairs last night to write this blog post, I opened an old book that...
by skimhenson | Jul 7, 2021 | On The Other Side of Trying Hard, Trying Hard Didn't Work
“To try or not to try, that is the question.” There are articles to endorse every opinion, studies to prove every theory. It’s easy to find stories about how trying hard worked and stories about how it didn’t. I’m almost finished writing the latter. We’ll soon...
by skimhenson | Jul 6, 2021 | On The Other Side of Trying Hard, Trying Hard Didn't Work
“When people ask, “What do you do?” I say, “Whatever it takes.” Unknown In 2008, I did whatever it took to check off boxes toward my writing career like being published in a national magazine. Professionally, it paid off. Three newspapers ran my column about...