An excerpt from “There’s Beauty in Your Brokenness: 90 Devotions to Surrender Striving, Live Unburdened, and Find Your Worth in Christ” I’ve recently been walking through a long season of heartache. I lost two loved ones suddenly, within months of […]

An excerpt from “Language That Leads: Communication Strategies that Inspire and Engage” Positivity is about being able to see the world as a place of expansion. When we are afraid or experiencing stress or anxiety, we see the world as […]

An excerpt of From Pandemic to Renewal: Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis Airplanes are a barometer of the national mood. My daughter is a flight attendant, and over the course of 2020, as Covid-19 battles, racial tensions, and […]

An excerpt from “Stop Waiting for Permission: Harness Your Gifts, Find Your Purpose, and Unleash Your Personal Genius.” The founder of Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, is thought to have said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, […]

An excerpt from “The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others.” Let me start with a story about how not to listen. When our son Matthew was eight, I traveled to London on business, accompanied […]

An excerpt from “Hold That Thought: Sorting Through the Voices in Our Heads.” Having lived in Southern California for over 35 years, I have grown accustomed to two types of weather: sunny and warm, and sunny and cold. We experience […]

Many of my early relational experiences left me feeling fundamentally defective in some sense. I wasn’t conscious of this feeling a lot of the time, but I developed a set of implicit beliefs about relationships and deep feelings about myself. […]

An excerpt from “Your Calling Here and Now” Vocation is always particular; this person, at this time, and in this place. Vocation is never discerned in a historical vacuum; it is always in the specifics of the world in which […]

The universally popular appeal of the concept of mentoring is a sign that there’s something about pursuing growth and development that is wired into us as humans. The Bible points to the fact that God expects every human to grow, […]

My husband, Aaron, and I and our boys, Henry and Mac, are lifelong Midwesterners, but three years ago we moved to Manhattan. We made the move from a house in the suburbs of Chicago to an 825-square-foot apartment on the […]

Do you have a mind that is always seeking to make sense of things? Does your heart have a deep longing for a sense of order and belonging? Have you ever experienced a sense of wonder that thrills to the […]

Have you seen Disney’s “Encanto”? The movie caught the attention of people of all ages and backgrounds over the past few months with its catchy songs and relatable messages. As a Colombian-American mental health therapist, I found the movie’s many […]