by Jeanne Harrison | Apr 13, 2023 | Christian Life, Magazine
There’s something amazing about a little girl who’s too young to understand gender stereotypes. She’s fearlessly free. When one of my daughters was four, she brought home the worst school picture she’s ever taken. She was a frenzy of energy back then – so wild, she’d...
by Jeanne Harrison | Apr 1, 2023 | Christian Life, Easter
It all started with a salad. For the record, I hate salad. Asian people don’t grow up eating salad. And Asian people like me, raised in third world countries, really don’t eat salad. We cook our vegetables, lest they kill us. “I’m home!” My husband called. We were in...
by Jeanne Harrison | Feb 2, 2023 | Christian Life
Sometimes the most honest question we can ask is, Why should I care? It feels like a jerk of a question – like the kind of thing some sour adolescent says from the back row of class with his arms folded across his chest. We grownups are too sophisticated to act like...
by Jeanne Harrison | Jan 6, 2023 | Christian Life, Counseling
Stress isn’t an emotion. It’s a physiological reaction to an emotion, like fear or anxiety. I learned this in therapy last year, when my stress reached a tipping point, manifesting itself in chronic chest pain and shallow breathing. I had always viewed anxiety like a...
by Jeanne Harrison | Nov 25, 2022 | Christian Life
Reinventing yourself is one of the privileges of growing up. You don’t have to be the awkward adolescent with braces and a lazy eye forever. One day, the braces come off and the contact lenses go in, and you metamorphose. You leave that person behind – the loser, the...
