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Healing: Where Growth Mindset Meets Theology
Some days I’m okay.
Some days I’m really happy.
Free, light and able to soar. The day my new driver’s license came in the mail was a good day.
Yesterday, when my children and I shared pumpkin mac and cheese (thanks, Ambitious Kitchen!) at our picnic table, enjoying cool October air and giggling too much was a good day.
Sometimes I’m sad.
When I finished going through the notes, pictures, and letters from love lost and cleared their captivating energy out of my house — that was a good day. But when I picked up one piece to light my charcoal grill (what can I say? I love good drama) and saw in his scrawl, “We’ll be married for 100 years” the bitter pangs hurt my heart.
The “It Gets Better” campaign started several years ago to combat LGBTQ youth suicide rates. It was a fairly simple and heartbreaking public health attempt to convince young people that if you can just buckle down and get through the hard…
