The Sociopaths Among Us – What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves By: Susan Deborah Schiller Sociopaths / psychopaths walk among us every day – at work, church, and in our families. Some of them sincerely want to change. A few of them want to know Love. Sometimes they contact me, asking me if there is […]
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You are Enough: The Gift of Inadequacy A Ted Talk by Taylor Gahm A video worth watching many times! "My idea worth spreading is that we're lucky when we don't measure up, when we don't fit in, when we don't have what it takes, because then we have the chance to uncover who we really […]
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I climbed into my watchtower … By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the "Daily Practice" – contemplative photography and prayer I take with me all of you who have suffered the horrors of sociopathic abuse. For you who know what it is to be terrorized in the dark while your friends walk in the light – to be […]
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A Life Story Interview with Aurora By: Susan Deborah Schiller We all run into blocks in writing our memoir. When telling your story is too hard, it may help for someone to listen and write a few lines for you. Soon you're ready to tackle another chapter of your memoir. You know, it's usually in the hard stories where […]
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Blazing through the Challenges From the "Memoir Mondays" and "Parables" series By: Susan Deborah Schiller Through this chapter of my memoir, I want to hand you four keys that will unlock your destiny, causing you to to blaze through any challenge. In May 2009, I was on the edge of an abyss that nearly engulfed my life. My husband […]
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I Fire in His Mouth By: Susan Deborah Schiller In a dream, I was escaping to freedom, leaping over barbed wire fences, and running evasively from prison guards. I had been the subject of psychological experimentation in a top secret government / university laboratory. In the dream, I had escaped many times, and each time I was […]
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Piercing the Darkness By: Susan Deborah Schiller Straight out front, I don't normally post about pastors who abuse women and children in their congregation, even though a large part of why I'm here at Team Family Online is to rescue and restore those who have been spiritually hurt in their churches, especially by predators in […]
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Heaven is Only a Whisper Away By: Susan Schiller from the series "Love from Papa" "I will worship you, my Lord, In Spirit and in Truth. I worship you with all my heart, With all my heart I honor you." This is a song the Spirit gave me on June 13, 2007… a song that […]
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The Great Adventure: White Water Living By: Susan Deborah Schiller In the series, "This Peaceful Place" I call this a "Daily Practice" – of contemplative prayer through photography. The Great Adventure is like a river, with many bends and twists. It is a white waters rapids kind of ride. Back in 1999. I had a series of […]
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Awful Quiet at Devil's Tower By: Susan Deborah Schiller In the series, "The Daily Practice" of Discovering Beauty in the World In discovering beauty we soak in the presence of our Creator. Beauty changes us – the very cells of our body are renewed and our souls are refreshed. At the top of the ridge I caught sight of […]
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The Art of Goofy-Stupid 101 By Susan Deborah Schiller Part of my own Mini-Memoir In my 50th year of life – you know, that time when you start to wonder if you have really achieved those childhood dreams and all the goals you had set out to accomplish – I began an adventure… It […]
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The Invisible Invincible Princess By: Susan Deborah Schiller If it is said that a "picture is worth a thousand words," do you think a picture can be a prayer? I believe there are prayers so heavy and strong in our hearts that words cannot be found that touch the deepest place in our hearts. Maybe that's why God gives […]
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