The Heart in Training Blog

This is Part Three of a Three-Part Series I set out this week to write about what I learned about being an extrovert during two years of...

Part One of a Three-Part Series Growing up in church, Sundays meant we were going to church service and then fellowship on the patio. Our...

I am one of those moms to whom their children have to give instructions before they walk into a social setting. “Mom, don’t dance in...

If you’ve read my long enough or heard me speak, you know that I eventually understood myself to be codependent: a helper, fixer, and...

This Is Part Three of the Series: Why Risk Real Relationships. Lately I’ve been finding myself nostalgic for the communities of my past....

This is Part One of a four-part series: Why Risk Real Relationships. For the last year, I’ve been going through a bit of a complex...

Last week I called my friend Jodi to check on her. Jodi is one of my favorite people, one of the J’s I dedicated my book to. (See Chapter...

The pandemic continues, but we’re also processing part of the pandemic. We went a year with no weddings, no kids’ birthday parties, no...

Parenting an introvert is awkward. For example: For years, I hosted a number of annual neighborhood gatherings. If they were “supposed”...

This post is about what we might try doing with, and for, angry people. We are surrounded by angry people in America today. Angry people...

A month ago, a mothers’ group in Arizona asked me if I could speak via Zoom on navigating friendships with people of differing political...

Updated: Apr 30, 2020 Over the last four weeks, my girlfriends have been coming through for me and — may I say it? — I for them. This is...

I'm sorry. I was wrong. I was thinking about myself. I wasn't really listening. I didn't know what to say, so I said nothing. Tomorrow...

A funny thing happens when you are writing a book. You can't read anyone else's. It's not just me. Other authors have written about this....

I recently met a women's pastor, Debbie, at a speaking event. I'm not big on small talk, so within 30 seconds we were talking about...