A man learns what women more often know:the emotional and physical trauma of anorexia. by Paul C. Mihalak Why did I end up like this? How did my life turn out so wrong? These questions and many others rumbled like a freight train through my foggy brain. The bright lights of the emergency room…
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Parent Power-Additional resources
For more help, check out the following resources: Drug Strategies, a nonprofit research institute, recently issued a 60-page report titled Treating Teens: A Guide to Adolescent Drug Programs, designed to help parents and other adults make choices about teen substance abuse treatment. Visit http://www.drugstrategies.org/pubs.html to place an order. If you’re looking for tips on how…
Understanding Gambling
The facts about a hazardous addiction. by Jeri Darby Gambling will consume your last cent and leave you frantically seeking new sources of cash. It has an insatiable appetite, demanding more and more. It is a vice, or a bad habit. But while everyone has vices in a general sense, not all vices are…
Healing from Co-Dependency
Going to the depths to find connection with God. by Julie Guirguis Tears stung my red, puffy eyes. My heart felt like a thousand daggers had been thrust into it. As I watched Paul walk away, the knot in my stomach told me it was over. I struggled with the urge to run after…
Hymn of Healing
Old words bring new life. by Carolyn Appleyard as told to Dan Lewis Campbell I knew the drill; I’d been down this road before. The room number was different, but when I closed my eyes, it was the same: the sounds, the smells — hospital smells — the feel of sterile sheets enfolding me…
Emergency Landing
Putting trust to the test. by Karen Foster I’m no stranger to commercial air travel. I’m not afraid to fly. However, I still listen when the flight attendant says, “Please give us your full attention while we review the emergency procedures.” That’s because an emergency landing once got my full attention. It was Veteran’s…
A New Perspective
Coming to grips with the sanctity of life. by Teresa Cook* I sat deep in thought at the nurse’s station as monitors beeped softly from the darkened rooms of the four-bed intensive care unit. “Your patients are all stable,” my head nurse had said earlier when she made assignments. “It should be an uneventful…
Just Us
In our anti-grace world, a little love and kindness go a long way. by Kristina M. Santos On a summer day I visit my mother-in-law in the nursing home. I sit beside her on the bed, holding the vanilla milkshake I’ve brought while she takes small sips. At ninety-eight years old, she’s confined to…
Set Free
Sometimes the prison we’re in is of our own making. by Rebecca Olmstead Desperate for more of God, I had looked forward to Bible camp for weeks. But I’d begun to feel as if I’d come to a great wall. So I asked God to knock it down — or give me a ladder….
The Baby I Never Held
The God of all comfort knows how to soothe our grief. by Eva C. Maddox A wave of nausea swept over me as I prepared breakfast. Simultaneously, a troubling thought soared through my brain. I couldn’t be pregnant! Not now — when my toddler is finally into big boy underwear. No! I had spent…