Tag: trauma

• The Stations of Acceptance

  

  It’s easy to look back with sighs of regret, as a mother “in the weeds,” as a person in midlife, having made life’s commitment at last, at the unfinished work; work that has been eclipsed by the demands of your dependents, and cannot be attended to again for some months or years, if ever. What…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  June 15, 2024

  Art Life, Catholicism, Marriage and Family Life, Motherhood, painting, spirituality

  art, Birth, Catholicism, Christianity, covid, Creative Process, creativity, death, encouragement, faith, Family, family life, gospel, Healing, inspiration, Jesus, Lent, love, mental health, miscarriage, Motherhood, painting, post partum, pregnancy, recovery, religion, spirituality, The Way of the Cross, trauma, vocation, wellness

• A Walk in the Woods with Magdalen

  

  “God made the world, mama! God made the whole world!”

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  June 11, 2024

  Art Life, Christianity, spirituality

  anxiety, Catholicism, death, encouragement, faith, Family, gospel, Healing, inspiration, love, mental health, Motherhood, nature, prayer, religion, scripture, spirituality, trauma, vocation

• Words Underground

  

  It was another “medicine walk,” as I call them. These have become indispensable. I’m not able to describe what goes on during my medicine walks in pictures, though as a painter, I sorely wish I could. That’s why I’m stuck with words. Words in English. Words, words, words. Words like worms beneath my feet in…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  April 6, 2023

  Art Life, Birth, Catholicism, Healing, Marriage and Family Life, Motherhood, Our Lady of Sorrows, Uncategorized

  art, Birth, c-section, Catholicism, covid, family life, Lent, Motherhood, Our Lady of Sorrows, prayer, trauma