Healing

Last Saturday in Orlando, the lives of 50 people abruptly ended. After the shooter had been taken down, first responders and EMS searched the club, attempting to organize the unimaginable [...]

Sometimes you need tough love in order to see what’s truly happening around you. There’s not a single person on earth that doesn’t experience hard times. Rich or poor it can range from a tragedy [...]

My stomach sank with dread. In the middle of a conversation with my friend Lauren in her apartment, I glanced down to my phone sitting in my lap and read the words on the screen. One unread [...]

It was one of those moments at work where you have a mini panic attack. The report is due but like the scene from Office Space, instead of printing you get an error message that reads “PC LOAD [...]

They say to be careful who you spend your time with. I was sitting in a crowded auditorium listening to a motivational speaker. All the athletes at my college were required to go—most of us [...]

Part of me wanted to say I told you so. This whole thing is on you. Your fault, not mine. I knew this was going to happen from the beginning and you should have listened to me. But no, you had to [...]

In 2009, seven years after her abduction, Elizabeth Smart testified that the man who kidnapped her would rape her three or four times a day, keep her tied up with a cable around her leg, and [...]

When you’re at a concert, you feel connected to everyone there–you love the same music, you wear the same clothes, you feel brave enough to talk to strangers you might never anywhere [...]

It was my second visit to the small Odessa, Texas store. My husband and I were visiting his family and I remembered loving the knick knacks and cute decorations in the store. I was anxious to get [...]

“They told me, ‘Just go and kill yourself–you don’t matter anyways.’” His words almost whisked away in the warm Florida wind. He said them so flippantly they almost lost their weight. We [...]