Tonight was a lesson in making someone feel loved and cherished. A young lady who has been missing from our community for personal reasons returned for a brief reunion with the people who truly care about her; I think it surprised her. It was emotional; she was embraced and verbally told that she was [...]
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Making Someone Feel Loved
Posted in Amazing, Heart, anger, compassion, emotions, encouragement, excitement, friendship, life, loneliness, love, mental and physical health, observations, of connections, pain and misery, relationships, surprise, tagged acceptance, adulthood, compassion, embrace, emotions, excitement, Heart, hug, hurt, joy, lady, loneliness, love, pain, reassurance, relationships, sadness, teen, unconditional, worthy on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Feeling Someone’s Pain
Posted in Fear, Frustration, Heart, Impact, Opportunities, attitude, comfort, communication, compassion, depression, domestic violence, emotions, encouragement, family, friendship, help, hopes, inspiration, life, loneliness, loss, love, mental and physical health, news, observations, of connections, pain and misery, relationships, tagged attention, attitude, caring, comfort, communication, compassion, emotion, help, hurting, love, mental health, news, pain, relationships, reports, sensitivity, stress, struggles, Time, well-being, world on March 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever talked with someone, in person or on the phone, and FELT the pain that they were going through? Staying connected to those around us demands an attitude of awareness and compassion. Having a relationship with others, that goes beyond the surface, requires time, attention, and sensitivity. Are you able to feel someone [...]
The Bachelor-Jason Mesnick Under Pressure
Posted in Beauty, Fame, Frustration, Heart, celebrity, children, commitment, competition, emotions, entertainment, family, fathers, future, kids, life, love, marriage, news, observations, opinion, parenting, publicity, relationships, seasons, television, tagged attraction, choice, Deanna Pappas, drama, Fame, father, fiance, Frustration, happiness, Jason Mesnick, love, marriage, Melissa, Molly, pressure, proposal, romance, season finale, son, television, The Bachelor, women on February 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Likeability can be a very fleeting thing. When Jason got down on one knee and began to propose to Deanna Pappas on a previous season of The Bachelor(ette); he immediately won the sympathy vote as she publically let him humiliate himself on national television when she had already chosen his competitor. This season, Jason [...]
Suspicious Sperm Donor: I Knew Nayda Suleman When
Posted in Fame, Good Morning America, MONEY, anger, baby, birth, cancer, children, custody fight, emotions, family, fathers, finances, future, help, kids, legal, life, love, marriage, media, medical, mental and physical health, mom, mother, news, observations, opinion, parenting, pregnancy, relationships, responsibility, support, taxes, values, tagged anger, babies, biological, California, children, Chris Cuomo, custody fight, Denis Beaudoin, DNA, donated, family, father, fatherhood, Fun, Giggles, Good Morning America, help, honesty, invitro fertilization, love, malpractice, married, media, mother, Nayda Suleman, news, nickname, octomom, ovarian cancer, parenting, paternity, relationship, responsibility, sperm donor, support, suspicious, tax dollars, testing, values, wife on February 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A man, Denis Beaudoin, who donated sperm for Nayda Suleman during a 3 year relationship, that they shared 10-12 years ago, suspects that he maybe the father of ,at least, her older six children; not to mention the possiblity of being the father of her 8 newborn babies. Nayda has been the focus of much speculation [...]
A Nursing Mother Can’t Ignore A Hungry Baby-Salma Hayek
Posted in Advocating for special needs, Amazing, Beauty, Fame, Fear, Frustration, Heart, Impact, MONEY, Opportunities, Sisterhood, attitude, baby, birth, charity, children, comfort, compassion, death, emergency, emotions, family, finances, future, giving, health, help, inspiration, kids, leadership, life, loss, love, media, mental and physical health, mom, mother, news, observations, opinion, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, parenting, poverty, pregnancy, publicity, respect, sadness, service, support, travel, water shortage, well-being, tagged abundance, African, American, attention, attitude, baby, blessings, bonding, breast milk, child, compassion, crew, criticism, desperate, Difference, fulfillment, Heart, help, humanitarian mission, love, milk, mother, necessity, need, newborn, news, Nightline, nursing, nutrition, Pampers, poverty, publicity, Salma Hayek, Sierra Leone, starvation, tetanus, Unicef, vaccines, world on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you were traveling through a poverty striken area and you had a baby of your own that you were still nursing…could you walk away from a hungry newborn baby that had nothing to eat? Actress Salma Hayek was in Sierra Leone on a humanitarian mission…she nursed an African newborn who was starving because [...]
Can We Stop Hurting The Ones We Love? Suicide Prevention!
Posted in Frustration, Impact, Suicide prevention, abuse, anger, children, crime, death, depression, divorce, emotions, encouragement, family, fathers, finances, friendship, grief, health, help, husband, ideas, life, loss, love, medical, mental and physical health, mom, mother, murder, news, observations, opinion, pain and misery, protect, relationships, sadness, suicidal, suicide, support, trauma, violence, tagged anger, caring, children, clergy, community, confusion, counselor, depression, despair, desperate, emotion, family, feelings, finances, guilt, healing, health, help, hurting, lifeline, love, loved ones, medical help, mental health, murder-suicide, national suicide prevention, neighbors, news, prevention, resource, revenge, sadness, stop, struggles, suffering, support, survivors, tragedy, violence on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ok, I am going to rant a bit for a minute. Twice this week the news has hit us with two terrible stories about families that self-destructed through murder-suicide. Two families that were destroyed. One family in particular left a suicide note allegedly saying that the reason they were dead was because both the [...]
Special Needs-Growing Up Special Isn’t Easy
Posted in Advocating for special needs, Blogging, accomplishments, adoption, children, encouragement, mental and physical health, organizations for special needs, parenting, special needs, tagged acceptance, blog, children, experience, growing up, independence, love, parenting, peers, special, special needs, struggles, successes, support, website, young adults on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you are the parent of a special needs child then you know that growing up special in today’s world is not easy. Finding ways to help your child be successful and to be as independent as they can be is often a challenge. Too often those children, or young adults, are shuffled off [...]
Between Fear and Faith
Posted in Faith, Fear, Heart, attitude, cancer, courage, diet, elderly, emotions, family, fathers, finances, health, help, history, hospital, life, loss, love, medical, mental and physical health, mom, pain and misery, patience, relationships, support, surgery, tagged attitude, blessings, cancer treatment, challenges, compassion, complications, courage, discouragement, Doctor, Faith, family, Fear, finances, God, healing, health, hospitalization, isolation, Jesus, love, medical tests, mercy, negative, patience, positive, purpose, sharing, strength, support, surgery on December 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As a Christian I am struggling with the line between fear and faith. My parents are both cancer survivors. However, right before Christmas they both had tests done that have come back with suspicious results.
I listen to my mother say that she is not going to get worked up until she talks with [...]
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