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Why Bother to Speak the Unspeakable?
By Terese Luikens | | Family, Grief, Mental Health, Uncategorized
Why Bother to Speak the Unspeakable? My siblings were the ones with whom I shared childhood. We bunked together, the girls in one bedroom, the boys in another. We shared the same meals around the same dining room table, we squeezed ourselves into the back seat of the family car. But not only did we…
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Why Bother to Adapt to the Unexpected?
By Terese Luikens | | Gratitude, Health, Learning
Why Bother to Adapt to the Unexpected? A funny thing happened on the morning we were to vacate our home for a recent vacation; we didn’t go. My husband woke up with a head cold that zapped him of all his energy. He lay in bed looking like I feel when I have a sinus…
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Why Bother to Vacate?
By Terese Luikens | | Beauty, Family, Health, Marriage, Relationships
Why Bother to Vacate? It is that time of year again. The calendar has held this date for us since April when we first made our reservations. We are taking off on a summer vacation today, a yearly tradition we’ve held for several years. When our sons were young, our summer vacations centered around traveling…
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Why Bother to Name that Emotion?
By Terese Luikens | | Learning, Listening, Mental Health, Relationships
Why Bother to Name that Emotion? I didn’t want to raise daughters. I was afraid to. I thought they would be too hard to manage because of all of the messy emotions I thought already came packaged inside of little girls. For that reason, I was grateful and somewhat relieved each time I birthed a…
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