by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Apr 24, 2024 | Business, Conflict, Leadership, Ministry, Relationships
How do you personally handle feedback? There are a few email newsletters that I send out (both work and personal) and recently I received a snarky letter from a guy (actually a minister) who received my newsletter. I am assuming he didn’t really want to be on...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Feb 14, 2024 | Family, Leadership, Marriage, Ministry, Relationships
I’ve been married a super long time. Thirty-seven years to be exact. I know, I know… we don’t look as if we could have been married this long. (LOL!) Truth-be-told we did get married very young. Larry was still a teenager! I know, it seems crazy. But...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Jan 10, 2024 | Adoptees, Adoption, Friendships, Relationships, Women
Laura Dennis and I first met in the blogging community. Both of us are writers, her being a popular adoption, adoptee, and parenting writer, and me being a writer in several genres including Christian living as well as adoptee issues. Since we’ve been friends...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Dec 20, 2023 | Family, Holidays, Marriage, Ministry, Relationships
We learn as much from failures in life as we do from successes. Probably more. So this is not a “my spouse and I do everything perfectly and always have the grandest holidays ever,” post. This is based on real-life experiences in a marriage and home that...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Nov 1, 2023 | Leadership, Marriage, Ministry, Reflection, Relationships, Stress, Stress Management, Women
I’m in the process of breaking a long-standing pattern of over-functioning. I can’t believe it’s taken me five decades of life to identify and do something about this issue! There are under-functioners and over-functioners. Underfunctioning people...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Oct 26, 2023 | Family, Marriage, Relationships, Women
Last week’s post about deconstructing from bad marriage advice caused a little kerfuffle online, not in the comment section of the actual post on my blog, but at a social media site. A group of complementarians were miffed at what I had to say. I wasn’t...
