by Kari Ingram | May 27, 2025 | Emotions, Encouragement, Narcissism
“I don’t know what to do. She fights us at every turn. She thinks she’s the one we should be taking care of. Not my dad. Her mind is not right.” Warren and I sat in the backyard, where we took a coffee break each afternoon—our daily respite from full-time caregiving....
by Kari Ingram | Mar 26, 2025 | Emotions, Encouragement, Narcissism
“I DON’T TRUST YOU!” And just like that, four little syllables nearly knocked me flat. If my hair were longer, I feel sure it would have blown back at the force of these words from my mother-in-law. Never had I had such hate hurled in my direction, and my sensitive...
by Kari Ingram | Feb 26, 2025 | Emotions, Narcissism
Note: I wrote most of this post while my brother-in-law was still in hospice care. He passed away yesterday. I’ve decided to share these reflections as they were, with minimal changes, as part of my own processing journey. I was scrolling through Facebook on our...
by Kari Ingram | Feb 4, 2025 | Emotions, Encouragement, Narcissism
Did you read my last post about slowing down in the new year? Taking things as they come rather than frantically trying to plan and pursue a harried agenda? I find it very interesting that in January I read no less than three blog posts, besides my own, that said...
by Kari Ingram | Dec 12, 2024 | Emotions, Encouragement, Narcissism, Writing
I heard a song on the radio last week that caught my attention. It was a song by Casting Crowns, and though it has been out for a couple of years, somehow I’ve missed it until now. The lyrics astonished me as they reverberated through my car speakers, so precisely...
by Kari Ingram | Jan 10, 2022 | Emotions, Encouragement
“The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.” As mentioned in a previous post, I have established a practice of writing three pages first thing every morning. I got out of the habit for the last several months while it seemed that...
