by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Jan 17, 2024 | Leadership, Ministry
Controlling leaders are out of style…not to mention ungodly! I’ve heard it said that you can control, or you can lead…but you can’t do both. I believe this. Because to control is not really to lead. The greatest leaders know that their role is...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Jan 10, 2024 | Adoptees, Adoption, Friendships, Relationships, Women
Laura Dennis and I first met in the blogging community. Both of us are writers, her being a popular adoption, adoptee, and parenting writer, and me being a writer in several genres including Christian living as well as adoptee issues. Since we’ve been friends...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Jan 3, 2024 | Stress, Pets, Stress Management, Therapy
My holiday break wasn’t as it normally is — a rest — because our dog Manny (a four-year-old English bulldog) got seriously ill and had to be hospitalized several times. He swallowed a ham bone a few days before Christmas, and it messed him up, big...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Dec 26, 2023 | Stress, Stress Management, Uncategorized, Women
One of my goals in 2024 is to be more like my friend, Cindy Georg. Not to copy her or be “just like her.” I’m a big fan of being wholeheartedly oneself. But I’m also about learning from the example of others in an effort to grow. Cindy is a...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Dec 20, 2023 | Family, Holidays, Marriage, Ministry, Relationships
We learn as much from failures in life as we do from successes. Probably more. So this is not a “my spouse and I do everything perfectly and always have the grandest holidays ever,” post. This is based on real-life experiences in a marriage and home that...
