hope to build on
Welcome to my blog, “Hope to Build On!” These are short, encouraging articles, often on topics such as relationships, worry, and faith. If you like what you see, please sign up to receive “Hope to Build On” by email. CLICK HERE to sign up. Thanks for reading!
Relation-Shop: A Place to Workshop Your Relationships
In the Relation-Shop with Dr. Shannon Warden...each episode, I'm asking you: Which relationships are you "workshopping" right now? How can I help you with that?! “In the Relation-Shop with Dr. Shannon Warden”…that’s the [...]
Trust yourself more: “Light a match”
Trusting yourself will mean facing and replacing your self-doubts. You can do it! Trust yourself more. That’s what I’m about to do. No, change that. I’ve already started trusting myself more, and I’m excited to [...]
Susie: A story of faith and family
Susie Spurgeon was an amazing woman of faith, wife, Mom, author, and more. We can learn a lot from her! Susie: The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon (Rhodes, 2018) deserves to make [...]
Good roots, good fruits, self compassion, and parenting
Good roots, good fruits...I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about this lately. Specifically, if you and I as parents want to see better “fruits” in terms of our children’s behavior, we must first examine [...]
Three steps for building hope when you feel hopeless
When we're starving for hope, even bread crumbs of hope can sustain us. Look for the good around you as a way of building hope. Hope can make you and break you—make you [...]
Junk in your trunk: Making long overdue changes in our lives
The junk in our trunk will be there until we do something about it, literally and figuratively. Junk in your trunk is a fun phrase. The Urban Dictionary says it means a large [...]