• : Author

    Our path is often marred by the many distractions that keep us from finding our true identity and God’s purpose for our lives. My passion is to facilitate clarity and provide support by helping you find meaning in the midst of your suffering and increasing the awareness and potential for choice. Our past does not define us; it is what we do with our circumstances that molds our character. We always have a choice in how we respond to life. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl

  • : Curator

    Kate Motaung is the Senior Writer, Editor, and Content Manager for a multi-state company. She is the author of several books including Letters to Grief, 101 Prayers for Comfort in Difficult Times, and A Place to Land: A Story of Longing and Belonging. Kate is also the host of Five Minute Friday, an online writing community that equips and encourages Christian writers, and the owner of Refine Services, a company that offers editing services. She and her South African husband have three young adult children and currently live in West Michigan. Find Kate’s books at katemotaung.com/books.

  • Attachment-Based Therapy for Adults

    Attachment-Based Therapy (ABT) is a form of psychotherapy that aims to address the issues people face as a result of their attachment styles. It is drawn from the influential work of British Psychologist, Psychiatrist, and Psychoanalyst John Bowlby’s attachment theory. We're only as needy as our unmet needs. – John Bowlby Attachment theory aims at explaining and predicting relational behaviors that people exhibit as a result of first relational encounters with caregivers. Bowlby argues that the closer and more

  • On Becoming: Self-Growth Through Struggle

    Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, represents the epitome of overcoming tragedy and making it meaningful. A Holocaust survivor imprisoned in the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz, Frankl lost nearly all of his family save one sister to genocide, including his unborn child. How do you make sense of that or find meaning in the loss? How do you keep going when all you knew, loved, and believed in is gone, and living in the world feels like a

  • Setting Boundaries in Relationships: A Form of Love

    Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi Are self-care and self-love selfish? There is a subtle difference between loving and caring for yourself and selfishness; it lies in motive, consideration, and consequences. Choosing to leave situations or relationships that no longer benefit you, are not sustainable, or are not reciprocal, is not necessarily selfish. Is it selfish for someone to expect you, or for you to expect