Heal and Restore

The Green Shoe foundation is a mental health non-profit organization offering confidential, professional, five-day retreats aimed towards improving and impacting individual lives and communities. Our goal is to help you embrace and heal the past, restore healthy patterns in your life, create space to be your authentic self, and discover joy.​ Our team is here to provide guidance, inspira...

Some experts in the field of addiction believe that addiction is a disease, I don't and I have plenty of reasons why I believe it is a CHOICE. In this episode I give a couple of real life examples that spell out clearly that addiction is a choice.

Since earning her Masters Degree in Counselor Education through the CACREP Accredited program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Melissa Cavanaugh has been helping her community find clarity and balance. Melissa is focused on helping the youth through a mix of direct and non-direct play therapy, as well as adults through facilitating meaningful therapeutic relationships. Her eclectic app...

There comes a time in the lives of those of us who raise children that they leave the nest. Rather its going off to college, getting married, or as adults, when they might move out of their hometown either to another city hours away or somewhere out of state. This is a time to experience both sadness and joy. My wife and I have felt both of these feelings and have grown closer to each other becaus...

With the COVID pandemic raging over the past year, there is another pandemic far worse, unseen, and not talked about. What is it? Mental health. With substance abuse, overdoses, suicides, depression, anxiety disorders and many more mental health issues increasing, it is the true pandemic we need to be not only worried about, but talking about. The CDC reported the highest number of U.S. overdose d...

How is your faith walk? Do you have more doubt than faith? Do you say you have the faith of a mustard seed, yet in the back corner of your mind there is that mustard seed size doubt? Build your faith slowly. Believe for the small things first. Like the mustard seed or oak tree seed (acorn). It starts small and weathers the small storms first in order to be able to weather the large storms that lie...

One of the biggest tragedies in today's world is boys growing up with absentee fathers. Fathers are to be role models, instill language, create believes,  transfer self-worth, provide standards for the types of friends sons should have, teach their boys how to treat women and so much more. Fathers also help their daughters develop their worth and teach them how they are to be treated by men....

Are you a person that struggles believing there is a God that loves and cares for you? Do you believe that if there is a God, he forgot about you and has no time for you? I can relate as I was in those exact shoes fifteen years ago. However, today is different. 

There is much confusion and controversy around the subject of spanking our children especially in the realm of Christianity. Many parents believe that there is a biblical mandate that tells them they must spank their children or chance committing a sin by not not having control of their children. All to often parents take "spare the rod and spoil the child" literally. The truth is that by doing so...