Discover how small moments — coffee on the porch swing, laughter with your child, quiet prayers — can become holy ground for healing.

And that’s the awe-inspiring thing about God — He takes what we think is the end, and somehow turns it into a beginning. He opens doors where we only saw walls. He takes our grief and grows it into grace.

In clinical practice, we often talk about resilience as an internal resource—our capacity to regulate, recover, and restore balance after adversity. Yet neuroscience and attachment theory remind us that healing is not solely an individual pursuit. Our nervous systems are profoundly relational. At The Porch Swing KC, we echo this truth: healing after trauma happens most powerfully in safe connection with others.

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Shadow Parts

Chronicles from The Porch Swing written during the year 2017 while my beloved was in hospice. Breathing life into words and healing.

There's something that just happens when we meet ourselves right where we are. Not somewhere in the past nor in the future anywhere too fast. Just here. In this most beautiful space where the pause meets peace.