by Karen Blandino | Sep 5, 2016 | Life, Love & Family
Broken Friendship “A true friend knows your weakness, but reminds you of your strengths” It took me years to realize this was a good sign of a healthy friendship. In my younger years, I had a broken sense of friendship. I assumed when I shared a weakness, a difficulty...
by Karen Blandino | Jul 25, 2016 | Life, Love & Family, Uncategorized
Rejection is horrific. Romans 9:25 …and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ Rejection can feel like a divorce in your soul. Whether it is wrapped up in estrangement, alienation, disunity, or hostility – it can feel like an assault that takes your breath...
by Karen Blandino | Jul 11, 2016 | Life, Love & Family
I was 32 years old when I decided to finish my college degree as a non-traditional student. For the first ten years of our married lives, Stephen and I served as youth pastors. At the conclusion of that chapter of our lives, Stephen began working with a leadership...
by Karen Blandino | Jun 24, 2016 | Life, Love & Family
Shaming has no healing or restorative purpose. Shaming invokes humiliation and embarrassment. It deceives the “shamer” into believing they are better than those being shamed. It comes cloaked in “needed criticism” or religiosity. Whether it was the...
by Karen Blandino | May 30, 2016 | Life, Love & Family
“Another day another night inside a lonely world”…lyrics I don’t want to live by. Isn’t it amazing that we live on a planet with 7.4 billion people, yet, there is an epidemic of loneliness? One author even described it as “crowded loneliness.” Loneliness isn’t...
by Karen Blandino | Apr 14, 2016 | Life, Love & Family
December 7, 2015 will always be fixed in my mind as I toppled down a staircase resulting in serious trauma called TPF – Tibia Plateau Fracture. One overlooked step, caused my femur to come down like a hammer on the plateau (top) of my tibia bone, tearing my ACL in...
