March 31, 2017
It’s Okay…
When was the last time you asked for something you needed? Just wondering... My guess is you can't remember. Right? Or, maybe you've never needed or asked for anything in…
March 22, 2017
Why We Love Funny Girls
Think of your funniest friend. Yeah, that one. You love hanging out with her, because...well, for one thing, she's funny. She cracks you up. And when you're with her, you realize…
March 2, 2017
“This One’s for the Girls”
I love the way the ACTS Journal practically writes itself sometimes. With an almost uncanny knack for highlighting what needs to be said and heard that particular week. Granted, what…
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…