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In April, blogger John McManamy posed this question to his readers: “How important is faith and spirituality in your recovery?” And he shared the results in a recent blog post that you can get to by clicking here. John writes: Notwithstanding all the choices in our recovery we have [stress reduction techniques, mindfulness exercises, methods…

What’s the difference between a dark night of the soul, as understood by the Spanish Carmelite mystic, St. John of the Cross, and clinical depression? It is a topic that has intrigued me for over 15 years because my senior thesis as a religious studies major at St. Mary’s College was on St. John’s poem,…

From A HELL OF MERCY by Tim Farrington. Copyright C 2009 by Tim Farrington. Reprinted by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Doubt as to whether you are in a dark night or “just depressed” is probably a very good sign; it means you’re alive and paying attention and that life has you…

I was searching for health and prayer stories and stumbled upon this one from Beliefnet. If you want to learn more about the real statistics on prayer, click here for the full article. Here is an excerpt:   News stories, midmorning talk shows, and celebrity figures such as Deepak Chopra claim that prayer can improve health. Biologists,…

It’s been three years since I published “The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World,” but the controversy over who is deemed a suitable mother and who’s not hasn’t change an iota.  A week or so ago when the story broke abut the Park Avenue lawyer who couldn’t take her kids’…

I found this interview with Ayelet Waldman on the amazon page of her book, “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace.” Question: Why did you write this book? Ayelet Waldman: Do you want the snarky answer or the real one? Q:The real one… AW: Because so many women…

I guess Beliefnet has another bad mom onboard. I was happy to see that Catherine Connors has joined the flock of bloggers here on Beliefnet. I was especially moved by her recent post, “What Makes a Mother.” She writes:  For years – since my early childhood – my mother has recounted for me the story…

Scripture is chock full of “chill out,” “hang tight,” “I got ya covered,” and “we’re cool” verses. Among them: I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens:…

I have been told that envy is my least becoming quality. But what do you expect from a girl who grew up with three gorgeous sisters within three years of me? Cute junior-high boys used me to get to my popular twin sister, and the lady who cleaned my childhood house referred to my older…

Blogger Katherine Stone at Postpartum Progress, will host the first annual Mother’s Day Rally for Moms’ Mental Health this Mother’s Day. This online event will feature 24 open letters to new mothers on the importance of maternal mental health. Each hour, on the hour, for 24 hours straight, Postpartum Progress will post a different “Letter…
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