If you’re new to Post-Traumatic Grace, welcome. I hope you’ll find this place to be a source of empathy, encouragement, emotional rest, and recovery. If you’re not new here, but haven’t heard from me for a while, don’t worry. It’s not you, it’s me. Ever since I...
Welcome back, Overcomers. This week I was honored to provide a guest post for the wonderful Dawn R. Ward from The Faith To Flourish. Have you ever wondered if God is trying to get your attention — and you’re missing his signals? If God called you to...
It is the first week of December 2005, and I am shopping at the Commissary grocery store on the local military base. It’s only a few miles from the mobile home park, where we live in a double-wide. We purchased it just over a your ago, taking out a loan that my...
I hang legacy on my walls, and box up all the past. A path once walked is turned around, A tree once fallen is no home for birds. But chunks of wood and crushed up leaves create warmth with a creative spark, whether a soothing crackle with marshmallows and sticks, or...
If you’re reading this it means that you’re either a new person here who stumbled on my internet safe space, or you’re one of my core readers, with me from the start (thanks!). For the last few months I’ve been toiling over what I consider my main work; that is my...
Melanie Makovsky has seen trauma turn into triumph through the lens of faithfulness. By examining hardships under the light of God's grace and love, she's learned to value suffering and loss as catalysts for deepening faith and discovering simple, everyday beauty.
The content presented on this site is based on my personal experience. I am not a mental health professional and this content is not to be considered a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis or treatment.