Rising Up from the Ashes of Defeat By: Susan Deborah Schiller "Can anyone hear my silence? Can they hear my tortured screams behind closed doors? Do they see the bruises in my soul, so painful I am crying every day?" These words were penned years ago in one of my journals, following a particularly difficult […]
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The Lone Rancher Lessons By: Susan Schiller I looked out the window and said to myself, "Sue, you've got to get those horses out of the pasture and into the corral." My husband usually took care of that. He just saddled up and rounded those horses right into the corral. I was just in the […]
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Believing for a Breakthrough By: Carolyn Hughes Carolyn is a guest blogger today, and one I hope you may get to know better. Her story is one of redemption, reconciliation, and renewal of faith. She speaks with compassion for the broken, hope for the despairing, and love for the wounded! Do you ever doubt God? […]
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We’re on the Way Home By: White Dove Do you feel like you’re in a free fall, never able to get ahead? Do the same patterns of tragedy keep cycling in your family? Have you ever wondered how you’ll make it to retirement, whether financially or emotionally? The dark may be rising all around the […]
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Let Me Hear Your Roar! By: Susan Deborah Schiller Lying next to my husband in bed after a long day of homeschooling our three little ones, plus running my own business from home (i.e. being the one-woman assembly line of creating Victorian lace bears!), my husband began reciting all of my faults. From top to […]
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"I Dare to Believe" by Susan Schiller Audio Version Available Here Abstract artist, Pablo Picasso said that "the chief enemy of creativity is good sense." What do you think? Yesterday, someone said publicly, "Sue, she's fearless!" Oh, but I am not! Not yet. I simply broke up with Normal. I burned the bridge, you see. I'm […]
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3 Rules that Make Great Relationships Special By: PJ McClure "Great job." "Thank you." "Your grandpa would be so proud of you." I think every grandchild wants to hear those words. For what it’s worth, I would have preferred to hear it somewhere other than his funeral. Regardless, the idea that I had done well […]
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Dressing the Invisible Wounds By: Susan Deborah Schiller June is National PTSD Awareness Month! Everything changed when I met an ordinary farmer from Oregon. It was at one of those advanced trainings that I found someone who knew someone. He was an ordinary farmer in Oregon. He understood sociopathic abuse very well and he began to […]
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If you're the victim of a religious sociopath, I want to assure you that it's not because you're an ordinary victim of domestic violence. Don't let anyone tell you that it's because of your low self-esteem or whatever… it's definitely not that! By: Susan Deborah Schiller In a dream, I learned what caused me to attract […]
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Tell Your Story from the Place of Victory By: Susan Deborah Schiller What if when tragedy or trauma invade our lives, we invite our friends to celebrate the victory – before it happens? I know of a king who once did such a thing! There once was a man with odd name, Jehoshaphat, who was an […]
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This is where I share my "hard" story… By: Susan Deborah Schiller Charismatic, charming, and good-looking, he was a lovable guy… church deacon, business owner, a friendly neighbor, and a man always ready to lend a helping hand. No one believed what was happening behind closed doors. I had no one to turn to but […]
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She Flew By: Susan Deborah Schiller Why have I attracted sociopaths everywhere I go? What causes them to be drawn to me? So many times I've heard it's because I'm "too nice," "too trusting," and "suffering from low self-esteem". Over a period of 14 years I have studied sociopaths, up close and personal. I have […]
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Name Your Adversary: Your Core Identity is at Stake By: Deborah White Dove While there are voices who tell victims to "be nice, don't mention names, and only talk about your issues and problems, not his," I now recognize those voices as siren calls luring me BACK to silence, back to the same victim mentality […]
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What Do You Want Your Life to Look Like? By: Susan Deborah Schiller I'm going to challenge you today to listen to Nick's story in the video above and to ask yourself: What, really, would your life look like without limits? What may be holding you back? Name it. Stake your flag on the outcome […]
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Love is On the Way By: Susan Deborah Schiller From my journal, November 17, 2002 "Relax, everything's going to be all right; rest, everything's coming together; open your hearts, love is on the way!" – Jude, the Message Bible I opened up to this verse after crying out to God with groans and screams for […]
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The Avengers – Answering the Cry for Justice By: Susan Deborah Schiller In that foggy state between dreaming and waking I heard that quiet inner voice say, "Some people think I don't intervene and rescue them, when in reality I set in motion a plan to save every family and individual on earth. It's called […]
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The words you speak become the house you live in. — Hafiz A life story chapter by: Susan Deborah Schiller Many of us are living as widows and orphans while God has promised us abundant life. Could it be that the experience of poverty, whether in finances, opportunities, or quality of our relationships […]
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Mission Impossible By: White Dove Sharing a condensed version of a chapter in my memoir… My husband and I were only 40-some years old when life as we had known it ground to a sudden halt. We both lost our jobs and moved to the wilderness following a severe spinal injury. After two years of […]
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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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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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