by Janel Breitenstein | Nov 9, 2019 | Africa
Print this here! Several weeks ago, I sat in a back room of the church amidst some storage shelves, music stands, and VBS material. Though the walls are cinder block, the seating leaves something to be desired, and the carpet perches on concrete, it’s been a...
by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 31, 2019 | children, emotion, kids, Parenting, relationships
In my house, we’ve got a lot of big feels. (My husband has dubbed our house’s pet sin “self-control”.) So we work a lot with managing emotion–so emotion doesn’t manage the whole house, m’kay? I’ve written about my...
by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 27, 2019 | community, conflict, emotion, friendships, relationships
I kind of hate conflict. With the exception of my anger issues with my kiddos, conflict tends to sideline me in a head-between-my-knees, breathe-into-a-paper-bag kind of way. It’s super-attractive and mature. Which is why, when it’s over, part of me would...
by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 19, 2019 | anger, children, Ideas, kids, methods, Parenting, tweens and teens
I admit to being comfortably removed from a lot of social media’s ANGRY CAPITALIZATION and #%$^& words for longer than is normal. An overseas cocoon, removed from a lot of news, swaddled me. It was a happy place where celebs were just famous people. Where...
by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 15, 2019 | Culture, current events, identity, women
I’ve thought about it a lot lately–as a woman, as an author. What is it about Rachel Hollis that makes her the dark chocolate of hundreds of thousands of women? For most of 2018, her Girl, Wash Your Face was among the top 10 bestselling books in America....
