by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | grief, healing
Here are seven helpful tips to process grief: 1. It’s important to acknowledge and honor your feelings, even if you can’t fully feel them. Avoiding or suppressing emotions can cause more harm than good. 2. Move your body and get outside. Shift your focus from...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | books, change, community, culture, free speech, generations, healing, leadership, religious movements, Spiritual abuse, spiritual growth, Spirituality, Teaching, Uncategorized
“The human condition is not one of problem solving, of wanting to know better in order, then, to do better, but rather, to be human is to not to see that which is right in front of you.” Anne Kennedy, Demotivations, at Substack, on the horror of Nigerian genocide of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 21, 2025 | Gratitude, grief, healing, heart, pets, Uncategorized
In early August, I observed a small umbilical hernia in my little Shih Tzu dog, Bitsy. The next week I had to go to Birmingham and I sent her to doggie daycare at our veterinarian’s office and asked them to check it. When I picked her up I talked to the doctor. She...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 6, 2025 | forgiveness, healing, heart of God, listening, Ministry, mysticism, Worldview, worship
This link is to an excerpt from Dr Curt Thomason’s episode 13 of season 11 on Rupture and Repair. It can be viewed in full on YouTube or Apple Podcasts. Being Known , his ministry’s website https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AsA2XwqNV/?mibextid=wwXIfr In a worship...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 25, 2025 | growth, healing, Uncategorized
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Aspiring to Tolerance and Inclusivity or Full of Grace and Truth? This morning’s devotional from Seedbed.com (posted above) hit a tender place for me. I have been confronted with the instruction to love my enemies...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 22, 2025 | grief, healing, Uncategorized
) June 22, 2022) friend who lost her mother recently and I, now 22 months into widowhood, were just talking about this very aspect of grief last night. The experience of and lesson of such “emotional ambushes,” as I have called them, is very true. It does...
