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Mercy and Me: How My Rescue Dog is Helping Me Grieve

Mercy and Me: How My Rescue Dog is Helping Me Grieve

I am unabashedly a dog mom. I have adult children who are wonderful human beings, but I also have other living beings that I take care of who reside in my house. And they mean the world to me. (By the way, new research suggests that cat and dog 'moms' and 'dads'...

The Fog of Grieving

The Fog of Grieving

Since entering my season of grief in December, it has felt like I’m in a fog, specifically brain fog. Creative ideas typically flow out of me like Niagara Falls, gushing forth with everything from blog posts to sermons, to team meeting ideas, to books, to articles, to...

3 Realities of Grieving  (And How to Respond)

3 Realities of Grieving
(And How to Respond)

Let's get this out of the way up front: I'm not a therapist. I'm just a middle-aged woman who has navigated a lot of personal loss in times past, and I am going through it again now in several aspects. What you're about to read are simply experiences from a fellow...

Invite Dr. Shrodes to Speak at your Event

Dr. Shrodes is invited to return and speak at many of the same places time and again because the result has been an overwhelmingly positive experience with lives changed, and people encouraged.