Hope For Hurting Parents

Hope for Hurting Parents Has Moved to a New Website Address!!!

November 22, 2015 by Tom and Dena Yohe

In July I posted here that I would no longer be posting on this page. You can find my blog on the home page of our website: hopeforhurtingparents.com Come find us there! We simply combined our blog with our website.

Please tell your friends about the encouragement and support we offer. Parents and grandparents both are in need of huge doses.

What is your greatest challenge? Your deepest heartache? We’d like to know to ensure we’re addressing those issues in future blogs.

On the website you can read more about us, why we started Hope for Hurting Parents and watch a video of me (Dena) sharing about that and a list of our favorite books and websites.

Please share some of your favorites in the comments section. I’d love to hear from you. We need each other!

This is a fun photo with Renee at the premiere of the movie about her, To Write Love on Her Arms.

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Find Hope for Hurting Parents Blog at new web address

July 19, 2015 by Tom and Dena Yohe

This is the last time I will post on this page. From now on you will find my blog on the home page of our website: hopeforhurtingparents.com Come find us there! And please tell your friends about the encouragement and support we offer.

What is your greatest challenge? Your deepest heartache?

On our website you’ll find a list of our favorite books and websites.

Please share some of your favorites in the comments section. I’d love to hear from you!

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Remember These 4 Things When Your Child Has a Mental Illness

June 7, 2015 by Tom and Dena Yohe

As of this week my blogs will be posted on our website as our homepage: hopeforhurtingparents.com We appreciate your patience as my dear husband re-builds the site. It’s gonna be great!

When your child is diagnosed with a mental illness it can feel overwhelming. You may become depressed and fearful not knowing what to expect or how to respond. I did. A stranger to the world of mental health, it was all foreign to me. If that describes you, read my last four blogs. They’re all about mental illness. They’ll help educate you, strengthen you and lessen your fears. In today’s blog I’m going to share 3 things I wish someone had told me when I first learned of my daughter’s mental health challenges. I think they’ll help you.

1. Your child is still the same person. Continue Reading »

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Two Suggestions to reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness

May 24, 2015 by Tom and Dena Yohe

When someone you love is diagnosed with a mental illness (major depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, PTSD, OCD) something very ugly tends to rear its head. I call it the two-headed monster of stigma and shame. It finds life from those who don’t understand because they’re either uninformed or misinformed. When it’s directed at your son or daughter the hurt runs deep. You feel protective. Defensive. But maybe you felt this way toward them yourself.

You need to hear these things:

Don’t believe your child’s value in this world is diminished because of their mental illness. Continue Reading »

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Making a Change

May 20, 2015 by Tom and Dena Yohe

Life is full of change, isn’t it? Not all change is bad, either. I wanted to let you know about what I think will be a good change.

In the next week or two my blog will be migrated into our Hope for Hurting Parents website. This way everything will be in one place. My blog will be the home page. We will also have a new look, so be sure to leave your comments! From that point on my blog will not be found at: hopeforhurtingparents.wordpress.com. Instead, it will be found at: hopeforhurtingparents.com

Speaking of change, I pray good changes will come in your child’s life soon. If not in theirs, then in yours, as you learn to cling to, lean on, depend on and trust in God. He’s got you in his hands.

“As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. (Psalm 103:13 ESV)”

Father, show compassion to hurting parents and their children as they endure painful changes and hope for good ones. Oh, how they need it today.

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