Dena Yohe
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A Life-Empowering Way to Deal With Wayward Emotions
The Christmas season can be difficult for many people, especially parents who are hurting over the destructive choices and behaviors of their teen to adult children. In my recent post, I told you about the idea of a “God Box.” This is not my original concept. I heard about it in an Al-Anon meeting. Using a God …
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Your Christmas Wish List as a Parent in Pain
As the mother of a daughter who has wrestled with addictions, self-injury, mental illness and suicidal tendencies, my wants during the holidays are few. If I could be a child again, I’d climb up on Santa’s lap and have a very different kind of wish list to share with him. Material things mean nothing when …
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The Christmas Miracle Every Hurting Parent Needs
Does your child’s life look like an impossible mess this Christmas season? Are they so trapped in addictive behaviors and destructive relationships that it looks like there’s no way out? Are drugs and alcohol, self-injury, an eating disorder, mental illness, jail sentences, a same-sex relationship or pornography holding them in bondage? If all you see …
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Parents in Pain, You Need to Know This About Celebrating the Holidays
Can you remember when a special event was ruined because of something bad that happened? Maybe it was your birthday, or maybe it was Christmas. For me, it was Thanksgiving Day 1997. We were living in Illinois. The morning was cold and sunny. I was up early to prepare our family’s special breakfast before we …
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5 Tested Tips to Help Hurting Parents Handle the Holidays
Holidays are the most difficult time of the year for anyone in emotional pain, especially hurting parents. I’ve been one. Our hearts are full of pain and sadness over our child’s struggles and destructive choices. This pain might be from any number of issues: alcohol, drugs, self-injury, mental illness and more. We’re not in a …
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The Baffling Battle All Parents of Prodigals Face
My daughter was going to rehab. She had graduated from high school only a few months earlier. I didn’t want to believe it. I was so hard on myself. Guilt set up residence in my heart. When your child has a problem with alcohol or drugs, self-harm (an eating disorder, cutting and so forth), sexual …
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10 Ways God’s Spirit-Empowered Incubator Can Help Your Prodigal Son or Daughter
Over six years ago, my granddaughter was born 10 weeks early. Since she was a preemie, she spent the first couple of months of her life in an incubator. It helped sustain her until she could survive on her own. The incubator provided the environment needed to control her body temperature, oxygen levels and the …
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