Should we gather or should we not? Is it safe to get together? As Thanksgiving approaches, this decision weighs heavily on the minds of families across our country. The thought of not being together during this time conjures up more visions of pain and yet we ask: Is it safe? To gather. Dictionary.com gave me…
Listen in this week on Raising Brave Beauties! We’ve been gaining so much practical help and wisdom from these mother/daughter conversations! In our thirteenth episode, my co-author Michelle Nietert and I hear from Maria Furlough and her 12-year-old daughter Faith, teaching us how to have confidence in our parenting. Maria’s powerful post, “But What About…
ย ย This week on Raising Brave Beauties, Michelle and I are joined by Jonathan Pitts (@pittsjr26) and his 16-year-old daughter Alena Pitts! ย Jonathan is a pastor and father of four girls in Franklin, TN! He runs For Girls Like You (@forgirlslikeyou), a Christ-focused ministry and magazine founded by his wife, Wynter. They aim…
This week on Raising Brave Beauties, Lynn Cowell and I are joined by Amanda Davison and her daughter Laila! Amanda is the creator of A Wife Like Me, a community of women supporting each other through married life and can be found at awifelikeme.com. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and three kids! Weโre talking…
My eyes scanned the crowd looking for his face. I was performing yet again in my high school choir and I just wanted to see one thing: my dad in the audience. It wasnโt that I didnโt think my dad loved me. I knew he did, or at least I thought I knew. He worked,…
Sitting on the deck in the dark of the night, I suddenly felt the urge to cover my face with my hoodie. My daughter had convinced me to take yet another personality test. The resultsโฆwell they really werenโt that revealing. Reading the traits out loud took me back to grade school. I could still…