Encouragement when you're uprooted by a move

*Podcast - Hope for the Uprooted with Susan Miller

Tips from an expert to calm your anxious child. Susan is joined by parent coach, Sandi Rae. For more than 25 years, Sandi has been guiding parents with techniques to calm their anxious children. Sandi has degrees in Occupational Therapy, Therapeutic Recreation, and Community Health, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Occupational Therapy. She travels all over the country speaking to parents. Listen or download

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*Susan Miller's Blog

From light-hearted musings to challenges every woman faces.
This month: Wrestling with God

I’ve agonized over the suffering and deaths from COVID and the emotional toll this year has taken on many of my friends. I’ve hurt for those who have lost jobs and for businesses that had to shut down permanently. I’ve worried over the dilemma of schools being open or closed and wept over the violence and unrest in our nation. I’ve struggled with “why?” at least a hundred times as I pleaded and grappled with God for answers. BUT, I have found comfort... Read on

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*Three Steps Forward

3 steps to move forward with your life...

Are you clinging to past? Change changes us. Allow your change to do the work of bringing about personal growth and added wisdom. Take the first step...

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*Devotional

This month: Thanks, in Advance

Thanking God in advance changes the posture of prayer from pleading to praise. You can choose to praise God as Healer or beg while holding your breath to see if He really comes through. You can choose to praise Him as Redeemer or you can plead your case with fingers crossed. More

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*Moving Makeover

This month: Nutrition for Mental Health

Nutritionist, Jill Maher, reports that the brain is more dependent on optimal nutrition than any other organ. If you are not eating a balance of whole-foods, you are more likely to experience mental health issues. Go now

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*A Mover's Story

This month: Find your way home.

"Being uprooted after thirty years of not just living in a place and making friends, but of letting my roots go deep and become entangled with the roots of others, was the most difficult thing I have experienced in a long time, if ever, in my life." Read Mary's story

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*Tips for Moving On With Life

This month: Pray With Ink

Do you journal? Have you tried journaling, only to give up on it? Journaling coach, Polly Wick, says, "Something teetering on miraculous happens when you write to Jesus instead of yourself. You change. Your relationship with the Holy Trinity deepens, setting your thoughts and emotions on solid ground. Processing life with your creator is satisfying and trustworthy." Go now

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Brief encouragement that arrives in your email inbox every week.

Haga clic aquí por Aliento semanal en español y encuentre un mensaje de esperanza en su bandeja de entrada cada semana.

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In the current issue of Bloom: Resilience

Why are some able to bounce back from difficulty and some can’t? Is resilience a trait that some are born with and some are not? Is there something we can do to be more resilient? Read on

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