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Mental Health | The Invisible Enemy
“Mental Health” is a new series that will explore the stories and experiences of our staff and guest writers and how they deal with their own mental health. Family Matters felt it appropriate to...
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The God Who Sees
I have spent a lifetime feeling as if I wasn’t enough. I’m not sure I know what “enough” looks like, but I know that I have never felt like I was there. In my school age years, I made good grades...
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I Don’t Think She Likes Me Anymore :: Anxiety Playing with Your Mind
“Why is Mommy still in bed?” I heard my young son ask my husband. Yes, it was Saturday, but this wasn’t just a sleeping in kind of morning rest. This was an “I Don’t Want to Deal with Anything”...
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Mental Health | Separation Anxiety
Fire and ice. Oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. There are some things in life that just don’t go together. I can tell you from experience, the same is true of anxiety and faith. My...
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Grace Filled Resolutions
I don’t know about you, but I am pretty hard on myself. I set up these fantastic goals, mostly unrealistic, and then become annoyed, depressed, and angry with myself. I have resolved to stop the...
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Advancing Grace
Reaching Families in the Wilderness Family Matters reaches parents in the lonely wilderness of extreme challenges – with the hope and healing of God’s grace! Every parent embarks on the parenting...
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Grace in the Wilderness :: An Introduction
We definitely don’t have an Instagram family. Not even close. We’re not saying our children are not beautiful, because they are. We’re just saying that no amount of cropping or color-saturating or...
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The Danger of Over-spiritualizing Mental Health
One in four adults and one in five youth in the United States have a diagnosable mental illness. At Family Matters, we know this means nearly every family we come in contact with is impacted by...
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Let It Go
Okay, okay, I apologize for the gratuitous “Frozen” reference in the title of this blog. If you have young children, I know you’ll understand how quickly a parent’s life becomes saturated with “kid...
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4 Steps to Overcoming Insecurity
Insecurity. We all battle it. It’s at the core of our fallen nature. I’m even feeling a bit nervous about writing this post, about offering my advice, since you might think that I’m being a...
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The Miraculous Grace of Acceptance
You’ve met them, the parents who have “given up” on their child, the dad who has lost all hope, the mom who acquiesced to her grief long ago. Their faces haunt you. These are the parents who used to...
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I Am Weak Yet He Is Strong
…and let the childhood song resonate with you just a bit longer. Don’t know what I am referring to? “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong, they are...
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Life Event Checklist
It’s called a Life Event Checklist. It includes milestones like marriage, birth of a child, that same child starting college, divorce, and losing a job. Insurance companies, the U.S. Department of...
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Are We Beautiful Yet? {Part 1}
Body image is hotter than ever as a cultural idol. The fashion, fitness, weight-loss and cosmetics industries spend billions every year to convince you that there is a lot you can do to be more...
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Are We Beautiful Yet? {Part 2}
{Click here to see Part 1} We’re all His beautiful image. The moment you’re conceived you are beauty. Whether you’re young or old, thick or thin, healthy or sick, you’re beauty. Beauty isn’t...
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Grace Under Pressure :: Aiming a Mentally Ill Child at True Greatness
Let’s be honest: parenting is hard. Parenting a child with special needs is really hard. And when your special needs child has mental illness, it can be flat out daunting. This isn’t about...
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I Don’t Think She Likes Me Anymore :: Anxiety Playing with Your Mind
{originally published in 2013} “Why is Mommy still in bed?” I heard my young son ask my husband. Yes, it was Saturday, but this wasn’t just a sleeping in kind of morning rest. This was an “I Don’t...
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Perfect Attendance Award
Each quarter the teachers at my daughters’ school hand out awards to the students in their classroom: Honor Roll, Most Improved in Math or Reading, Star Students, Kindness, Helpfulness, Most Books...
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Going it Alone
Ever have that friend that you hear from a lot and then all of a sudden just kinda falls off the map? You might begin to speculate: Maybe she’s just gotten “busy.” She has had a lot going on with...
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Grace Filled Resolutions
{originally published in 2013} I don’t know about you, but I am pretty hard on myself. I set up these fantastic goals, mostly unrealistic, and then become annoyed, depressed, and angry with myself....
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