By Kayla Hemphill, LPC Edited by Colin Hemphill Reading was an important part of my childhood—books were always available to me, and many in my family modeled a love for reading that I wanted to follow. Into my adulthood, the joy I felt for reading simply faded...
On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Mosaic lost our beloved Pastor of Children's Ministry Keivon Liburd due to sudden and tragic death. Handling this loss can be hard for our adult congregation, but this will also affect the children and teens in our congregation. It can...
What Is Grief? Simply put, grief is a great sadness. Grief is a powerful emotion present when something important is lost or damaged. In my counseling work with clients of all kinds, grief always enters the conversation at some point. Whether it is very raw grief from the death of...
These past few weeks have marked the beginning of the school year for a number of the districts near where I live, which for me means getting up early again to get my kids to school on time. Even though I'm the parent and not...
What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is a meditative practice of trying to bring your conscious awareness to this present moment and all the connectedness of what you notice in this moment. The definition can be made more robust and more significant in many ways, yet the core...
How are you doing, really? To say that this past year has been hard would be a monumental understatement. We, as people, have had to dramatically reorient how we do life. From working at home to endless video calls to cancelled plans and frustrated ambitions, we...
Imbalance in relationships It’s funny, being a therapist. With all the variety in people and relationships and experiences that we all can face, I seem to find patterns in the things that I talk about with people. I’ve noticed a trend that involves thinking about the...
WHAT DOES BELONGING LOOK LIKE? You have each other's backs, but also you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. These two sayings about backs are a good way to summarize the ways that belonging can look in practice. In the first, you are saying that...
Stress is an almost constant reality of most people’s lives these days. Whether it’s stress about the big things like the government, race relations, or the ultimate cosmic destiny of the human species - or the more mundane like too many deadlines and not enough...