One of the hardest things about growing up always on the defense is realizing how much it carries into your future. When you’ve spent...

How to Struggle Well There’s a phrase I’ve heard over and over again: “Struggle well.” It is the heart of a nonprofit my husband is a...

Week 15: What to Do Without Faith? What if you have no faith in anything, what then? Without faith, you are left to lean entirely on...

Let’s get right into it this week. Why did I start writing this? So you can know that you are not alone . My story used to embarrass me. ...

Week 13: The Price Tag of Change This week I felt the weight again. The weight of leadership. Of caring. Of carrying stories that are not...

Week 12: I Am Still Becoming There was a moment this week, just a regular Tuesday morning, getting ready for work, when I looked at...

Week 11: Becoming Her. The Woman I Used to Dream About From voiceless to having a voice. There was a time when I believed I’d never be...

Week 10: Life Sometimes Needs Realignment Sometimes when our back, neck, or shoulders hurt, we need to go see a chiropractor. One...

Growing out of our comfort zones is never easy. Even today, over a decade since I left behind a life of poverty, I still sometimes feel...

Week 8: The Power of the Present Moment By Elizabeth M. Ford Facing the Shadows As we spoke last week about my mother, it reminded me how...

Week 7: Head High, Heart Heavy By Elizabeth M. Ford A Life Like a Movie People often ask me how I turned out the way I did. They say...

Week 6: The Day I Chose to Live By Elizabeth M. Ford When Surviving Is Not Enough There is a moment in life when surviving the day is no...

Week 5: Confidence in the Sunlight, Healing on the Other Side of the Storm By Elizabeth M. Ford 🌍 From Trauma to Travel This past week,...

Week 4: A Mattress on the Floor and a Baby in My Arms — The Unexpected Beginning By Elizabeth M. Ford 🏚️ Coming Home to Poverty After...

Week 3: Falling Fast but Dreaming Hard — When Life Became a Blur By Elizabeth M. Ford 🌀 From Innocence to Instability There’s a shift in...

The Impossible Life

Week 1: Living the Impossible — My First Step into the Storm By Elizabeth M. Ford 💔 When “Normal” Disappeared I was just seven when I...