by skimhenson | Jul 19, 2021 | Dead for a Decade, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“Even our darkest thoughts will never separate us from the love of God. He is with us in the wilderness, and He is with us as we wrestle with our brokenness.” Kayla Stoecklein from Fear Gone Wild: A Story of Mental Illness, Suicide, and Hope Through Loss When I read...
by skimhenson | Jul 15, 2021 | Dead for a Decade, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.” Franz Liszt Anytime someone commits suicide, people ask, “What was so wrong that they’d kill themselves?” A family member asked the same thing when he found out I...
by skimhenson | Jul 14, 2021 | Dead for a Decade, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” Norman Cousins Just like denial doesn’t work, neither does deadening parts of us that we don’t like, can’t accept, or can’t change. It’s damaging at best, deadly at its worst. The...
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...