Find how to deal with your family (especially if they’re a little crazy) and protect your heart this holiday season!
Get Ahead of Sticky Family Situations This Holiday Season
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Find how to deal with your family (especially if they’re a little crazy) and protect your heart this holiday season!
Oh, I love this. Thank you so much for this series.
Thanks Lara! The holidays have always been a hard time for me so I was hoping to help others this year avoid the all so common traps!
Good morning, Sterling! A friend of mine pointed me to your podcast and then I found your blog and I feel like you are me! 😉 I can relate to so many things you are talking about, including the part about your dad not believing. It tore me apart. He passed away a couple of years ago and it was hell on earth for me. I was so worried about his soul. Funny thing? He dies on the Feast of the Assumption of our Blessed Mother, and then this year I realized that we buried him on the day we celebrate Mary’s Coronation. When we meditate on the Glorious Mysteries, the fruits are the grace of a happy death and to trust in Mary’s intercession. I have had to work on it, but I have had to trust her, that she took care of my dad. Lord knows I prayed for it!! I have also wanted to say that I also steuggled with clinical depression. I probably struggled with it for a few years. I was on medication for a year or two and it worked pretty good, but then it got really bad when my husband and I were going through our separation. My counselor diagnosed me with it. Instead of going on medication, I took it all to Our Lord and I continue to do that to this day. I still fight the symptoms, BUT I have tools now. I am so glad tou talked about that in your video. It is a real thing. So real and so serious. I often describe it to others as a feeling of drowning. I just felt like I couldn’t get out of it. I think we have to realize that our hormones change and oftentimes after we have children, we enter into the depressive state and so many of us ignore it. It won’t just go away! We either need medicine, or ee need to find a good spiritual director. And either way, we need Jesus through it all. So much to say. I won’t hijack your post any further! 😉 Thank you for sharing all of this. I am just going through and listening to your podcasts as I work out and wrap gifts. 😉 Now to go hit my rosary. 😉 Have a blessed day!!
Thanks for sharing Karen! I love hearing about those special blessings from Mary. She does a great job of taking care of our loved ones even when we can’t! Yes, I think it’s important that we talk about depression so it becomes more understood. I’ve got some excited things coming up this year, stay tuned!
Sorry for all the typos!! I am on my phone! 😉 I also wanted to mention that my husband and I, through the grace of God, got back together!! I left that part out. 😉