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✦ Healing  ·  Parenting  ·  Raising Humans  ·  August 2026 What Does Healing Actually Look Like? A word for every parent who is wondering where to begin and every person who isn’t sure they even deserve to. By Raising Humans  |  August 2026  |  11 min read “He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.”  Psalm 147:3 (NIV) For every parent doing the brave, quiet work of healing — so their children inherit something better. I did not set out to become a parent who needed healing. I do not think any of us do. We enter parenthood with the best of intentions we love our children fiercely, we want to do right by them, we carry the quiet hope that we will somehow give them more than we were given. But somewhere along the way for me it was a quiet, ordinary afternoon, watching my daughter move through the world  I realised that some of what I ...

✦ Women's Mental Health  ·  Raising Humans  ·  July 2026 Strength Isn't Silence  A Word to Every Woman Too For the woman who holds everyone together — it is your turn to be held. By Raising Humans  |  July 2026  |  10 min read “She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.” Proverbs 31:25 (NLT) With gratitude to the friend who simply asked: “How are you doing?” — and waited for the real answer. Twenty-one years of friendship. Thank you. T hree weeks ago, I received a text from a friend. Not just any friend  someone who has walked with me for twenty + years. Someone who knew me before I became a mother, before I took on every role and responsibility that now fills my days. She simply asked: “How are you doing?” I sat with my phone in my hand and cried. Not because I didn’t know the answer. I cried because I f...

✦ Men's Mental Health Month  ·  June 2026 You Are Enough — A Final Word to Every Man This June A message of reassurance from God, from family, and from every person who has ever loved a man in silence. By Raising Humans  |  June 2026  |  10 min read “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord — plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” — Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) This Month Was For You J une is over. And as this month closes a month dedicated to the mental health of men we want to end it the same way it should have begun: not with statistics, not with warnings, but with a word of deep, unhurried reassurance. This post is for the man who worked hard all month and told nobody he was tired. For the father who showed up every day even when his own tank was empty. For the husband who held the family tog...

✦ Faith + Mental Health Series · June 2026 When the Spirit Carries What the Mind Cannot Men's mental health, healing, and the faith that holds us together By Raising Humans  |  June 2026  |  9 min read "He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak."  Isaiah 40:29 (NIV) The Weight No One Sees T here is a particular kind of exhaustion that lives in the body of a man who has been told, for most of his life, that strength means silence. It is not the tiredness that comes from hard work. It is something heavier  the fatigue of carrying grief that has never been named, fear that has never been spoken, and a longing for peace that he may not even have words for yet. June is Men's Mental Health Month. And this year, at Raising Humans, we want to hold this conversation in a fuller light one that includes not just the psychological and emotional dimensions of men's wellbeing, but the spiritu...