Nita described herself as a 49-year-old overweight woman suffering from crippling depression and bipolar disorder, when she caught the running bug. Her first run lasted 60 seconds, but she kept running just a…
Imagine you’re in your early 30s, you’re in a wheelchair, hallucinating, barely able to follow the doctor’s speech. It’s Friday. And he says,” You’re not going to make it until Monday.”…
In 1984, Rita and her husband Brad welcomed a healthy baby boy named Brandon into their family. Only five years later, Brandon began a 20-year battle with brain cancer. They watched as their son became increasingly mentally and physically handicapped….
In my interview with Dr. Larry Dossey this week – which was published as a podcast titled “We Are All One” – he speaks of the deep connection between all of us as one of the most important things in our existence. He cites…
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On a frigid winter day exactly 109 years ago, my father John Rempel Schmidt was born in a small farmhouse in a Plautdietsch (Low-German) Mennonite community in south central Kansas. I dedicate my very first podcast to my father’s memory. The show “We Are…
I’m launching a new podcast next week and I’m excited to share it with you! At the end of 2019, I wrote about the elderly in our society, whom we sadly treat as invisible and voiceless. Here’s the other side of this: I have been…