The Heart in Training Blog

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...