Happy Thanksgiving! On some Thanksgivings, I’ve been really bad at counting my blessings. November is supposed to be the Month for Giving Thanks, but sometimes I’ve felt like opting out of the mandatory “Tell us what you’re grateful for since today’s Thanksgiving.” Can forced gratitude actually make you feel better about your life? I’m going
You have experienced life in a way that no one else has. This has made you uniquely knowledgeable, skilled, and capable of making a difference. How can you use what you have to improve the lives of others? I’m finally making this official on my blog. We have a non-profit organization, Creative Helping Inc.,
I’m excited to announce that I’ve officially started an online private practice. I chose the name “The Center for Support” because I want people to feel supported as they access services from the website. Right now, I’m offering online and telephone mental health counseling to people who live in Florida. I’m also offering online art
What do you hope for in 2016? Last January, I chose the word “fruitful” because I hoped that 2015 would be a fruitful year. As I look back on last year, I can’t help but feel grateful because 2015 was the most fruitful year of my life. For 2016, I’m choosing the word “nurture” because
It had been two and a half years since I had volunteered at the orphanage in Guatemala. When I went back for a visit earlier this year, I remembered how much I had enjoyed working with those kids. (As I mentioned in the last two blog posts, while I was volunteering at the orphanage, I
There was one adorable and very energetic three-year-old girl in the Guatemalan orphanage. As she ran over to me, her pigtails bounced and her brown eyes sparkled. In the last post, I wrote about my volunteering efforts with the toddlers in this Guatemalan orphanage. While those toddlers were napping, I would usually sit down with
As I prepared to move to Guatemala in 2009, I wondered if I was making the right decision. What would I do over there? Even though I had been raised as a missionary kid and I had gone on many short-term trips as a volunteer, this was my first time moving to a Third World
There is a quote by Mother Teresa that I really like. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” I have to remind myself of that sometimes. I tend to dismiss the smaller things as being less important. Over the years, I’ve become somewhat of a
