Category Archives: Redemption
Shawna’s Elevation talk now available! (Mental illness, suicide, and finding God in the darkness)
It’s Mental Health Week! What better way to kick it off than by sharing my Elevation talk with you. Special thanks to the Elevation crew who made this talk available so quickly! Here’s a snapshot of what you’ll hear in … Continue reading
Grief, suicide, and “inter-generational impacts”
If I told you my story of trauma and pain, of loss to suicide and thoughts of the same, of anger towards the gaping holes that mental illness patients fall through in our medical system, holes that my loved one … Continue reading
Going on a Life Change Adventure
Life Change Adventure. What a curious name for an organization. Does it take an adventure to change a life? Perhaps changing lives is the great adventure… A while back I wrote an article titled, “Has helping others helped me?“ In … Continue reading
I had the most incredible night…
It all started yesterday. The sun was setting, and the phone rang. “Would you be free tomorrow night to share your story with a group of teenaged girls?” Would I? Could I? I had to find a way to make … Continue reading
A COMPLETE LIFE – Martin Luther King Jr.
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, the third Monday in January, is Martin Luther King … Continue reading