I come from a background filled with trauma. For a long time, I didn’t understand why my past felt so heavy, why it shaped how I viewed myself, relationships, and the world. But now I believe that God called me on this journey because of that past. When we opened our home 4 years ago, it started as a family home. We thought we were ready to care for others from a healthy place, having done personal work and prepared ourselves as best we could. But as the first children moved

For a long time, I believed my dream life would begin “when” I had the ideal job, “when” I moved to the perfect place, or “when” I finally had more time, more money, or more clarity. But I have come to realize that the key lies in this: practicing the life I want, here and now. So that when my dream life arrives, I am ready to receive it and also able to hold onto it. Because receiving something and being able to sustain it are two very different things. In my previous blog,