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An End to Bitterness

By: redtentwomen October 14, 2020September 15, 2020

Day to Day, Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationshipsbelief system, Darling Mom, Growth, Kindness, Shandee Mikesh5 Comments

Lately, I feel like I did as a child, when I would spin and spin in circles until I fell to the ground with dizziness. As a little girl this was fun. As an adult, not so much. In the past five years I can’t seem to find a single thing that I haven’t examined.…

Raging Orphan Need

By: redtentwomen December 3, 2019December 2, 2019

Day to Day, Faithattachment disorders, Darling Mom, Darling Mom Podcast, Orphaned, Recovery from Abuse, Shandee Mikesh16 Comments

There has been a lot published in recent years about attachment disorders and the effects of children who are not properly secured and cared for. We speak of orphaned children with kindness but as if they are far away. It is difficult to tolerate looking into their need filled eyes that have stopped reaching for…

Room to Recover

By: redtentwomen July 31, 2018July 30, 2018

Day to Day, Monthly ThemesEmotional Recovery, Recovery, Rest, Shandee Mikesh, Surgery5 Comments

I wake today with painful awareness that I have holes scarring my abdomen where I did not have them previously. My very infected gallbladder was removed and I’m lying in a hospital bed hopped up on morphine with a drain in my side.

Not Normal

By: redtentwomen August 23, 2017August 23, 2017

Day to DayChip Dodd, Dan Allender, Sensory Disorder, Shandee Mikesh, Trauma Recovery15 Comments

My phone is buzzing and I see it is school. Again. I receive the call and hear the school secretary saying that my 8t h grade daughter is in the office crying.