Originally posted in August 2021; updated a bit in August 2024   So my blog may seem to be shifting among a couple of themes.   A friend...

Abuse that isolates a church member Updated: Aug 13, 2021   Until I needed support the most, I believed that I had a dependable,...

Narcissistic Family Traits These are notes from a helpful youtube video (link is below); these points resonate with me, and I am sorry if...

Wolves in sheep's clothing When I read this analogy in the past, I pictured an Aesop's fable drawing of a wolf that is obviously a wolf,...

The following blogs were posted in October 2021, then deleted due to heightened threatening and abuse. They are being posted from more...

This weekend I reached out to a dear friend who has experienced much of what I write about in these postings, in the context of the same...

[Topics: Serve & Return; Who Is My Neighbor?] Serve & Return - for ALL ages Updated: Oct 31, 2021 Healthy relationships are marked by...

[Topics: Open letter to my father-in-law; Dysfunctional world maps] Why do I have the name "Wise"???? Updated: Dec 4, 2021 An open letter...

[Topics: Moral Injury and Systemic Abuse] Moral Injury Originally posted Dec 28, 2021 Violence and suicide are more frequently due to...

[Topics: Toxic positivity and Lessons Learned in 2021] I will be re-posting my former blogs, possibly 2 at a time, over the next days....

Someone reached out today and asked if he could buy a book which I wrote a few years ago and then removed from Amazon because I was...

In early 2020, I went to see a psychiatrist within my UCLA medical network. I was having symptoms of anxiety, depression, panic… all...

I was recommended a specific episode of a podcast (https://julieroys.com/podcast/), and am very thankful to have found it. I'll be...

Last night I attended a gathering of tens of thousands of believers at the Angels Stadium. All I can say is it was so glorious and...

Tonight I am grieving, intensely, unutterably, as I have grieved for several years now. As a middle school teacher, I am currently...

I decided to record what words I'd want to leave behind if the Lord took me to be with Him. Please feel free to share what you would want...

In the next two podcast videos, I reflect on therapy I started getting shortly after my husband told me on November 22, 2018 that I had...

I am beginning, as of today, to share and post some videos, both here on my blog as well as on an "Inconvenient Ruth" podcast I created...

Exactly 28 years ago, perhaps to the minute if you read this soon, on a sunny Lord's Day, around 3pm, just a few miles north of where I...