The Heart in Training Blog

...that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight...

Searching for the Small Shoots

I started reading about Post Traumatic Growth in the summer of 2020, because I was feeling, well, traumatized. Rather than lament all...

Why I Stuff My Own Stocking

It’s advent season and all my wonderful writer friends are writing deep posts about spiritual things, and I love reading them. But I’m...

Dear House, This Is As Good As You're Ever Going to Get

Dear House, After 18 years of living in you, you are finally all I have ever hoped you could be. Every space is functional. Every...

Cry Hard

I’d just gotten in a fight with a friend who wouldn’t be my friend for much longer. She had said some cruel things: echoes of all the...

Go Away, I'm Introverting (Just kidding. Please text me.)

Updated: Oct 10, 2019 For my birthday yesterday, I received these socks from my college-and-current friend Kelly. I thought it was very...

The Realist's List

Updated: Jul 2, 2019 “Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?” “Hurry!” said Frog. “We will run and...

I Do Not Like This Cone of Shame

Updated: Jul 2, 2019 Recently I got a text telling me I should be ashamed of myself, followed by the sender's "why." They had overheard a...

Self Care Sucks Sometimes

Updated: Jul 2, 2019 Last week I had a migraine that lasted for three days. It started Tuesday morning. I medicated. It went away by the...

What Are You Wearing?

I'm one of those obnoxious people, who, when complimented on something I'm wearing, will tell you the story of how, why and where I got...