February 17, 2017
Brutal + Beautiful = Brutiful
If you're not familiar with Glennon Doyle Melton, allow me to introduce you. She calls herself a Recovering Everything. And I'll let her take it from here in her own…
January 20, 2017
Seeing Our Blind Spots
If we’re going to remember that “sometimes simple works,” it may help to review the complex nature of the defense mechanisms we use in life that pretty much never work.…
December 23, 2016
Observations of a Dress Rehearsal
It was Carli's dress rehearsal for her debut performance in “The Nutcracker,” and I arrived just in time to find the stage alive with dancing Snow Flakes during the final…
November 4, 2016
Taking My Marbles & Going Home
It’s a great expression. One we hardly use anymore, and many of you have never even heard before…which explains the nostalgia it stirred up in me when Stan used it…
October 27, 2016
Courageous Moves
Every courageous move at the ACTS House is cause for celebration…and when the move is literal, as in two states away, it's only natural that a tinge of sadness will…
October 7, 2016
Leaving Lala Land
There comes a moment in every healing journey when it becomes clear that pretending just doesn't work anymore. It did for a long time, though...and it can be absolutely gut-wrenching to…
September 22, 2016
Games People Play
I’m not much of a game player myself, but when a friend wants to play board games for her birthday, I’m all in…dragging a big load of leftover fear and…
August 11, 2016
Laughable, Relatable, Lovable
I love Nora Ephron. She makes me laugh about things I can totally relate to. It’s what I try to do here on the ACTS Journal…and every now and then,…
August 4, 2016
Desperado…
Most of us know the song. Many of us relate to one or two lines of the famous lyrics. And a few of us identify more than we’d like to…
July 16, 2016
Summer’s Happening…Right Now
This past Wednesday, I met a friend for dinner. It had been a long day in the middle of a busy week. I was hot and tired, and ready to…