How To Find a Secure Hope
In what do you place your hope? Perhaps it’s success. A great career. Making a fortune. Being loved or having children. If it is something transient, you have placed your hope in something false that can crash and burn. In my thirties, I felt full of hope....
How To Rebuild A Strong Boundary To Keep You Safe
Sometimes life tears down the boundary fences that keep out danger. Unless we are proactive and rebuild a healthy fence, we won’t feel safe or find courage to embrace the abundant life. When I moved to Nebraska, my life was in shambles. In the midst of some difficult...
4 Things Abuse Teaches and How To Overcome the Victim Mindset
Abuse and the Victim Mindset Abuse is a teacher that lays a foundation of lies and limiting beliefs. Those beliefs control your thoughts, cause you to self-reject, teach you to be a victim, and dictate all your reactions. Abuse is powerful. There’s good news!...
Signs a Relationship is Becoming Toxic
If you are in a relationship where you’re not accepted for who you are; you aren’t treated with respect; your boundaries are ignored; you are being manipulated, mocked, humiliated, and even victimized – you need to know – the Lord doesn’t approve of what...
What is Abuse and Why Do We Avoid Talking About It?
Talk About Abuse The subject of abuse is uncomfortable. If you’ve experienced abuse, you will find it emotionally difficult to engage with others about this subject. That is understandable. It’s frightening to face the truth of what happened to you in the...
About Barbara
As a former nurse, missionary, rape victim advocate, and mentor, Barbara has experienced and seen the effects of trauma and violence that limits one’s freedom to move forward in victory.
Her passion is to encourage others to retrain their brain so they can see life in a fresh way. She challenges each person to “Choose Life!”
